2022-Aug-7: Nineteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time
2022-Aug-7: Nineteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time Opening prayer Heavenly Father, send forth your Spirit to enlighten our minds and dispose our hearts to accept your truth. Help us to listen to one another with openness and honesty, eager to learn from the talents and intuitions that you have given each of us. Never let differences of opinion diminish our mutual esteem and love. May we leave this meeting with more knowledge and love for you and your Son. In the unity of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Theme of the liturgy The readings invite us to reflect on how our Christian faith today demands a serious examination and estrangement from modern American ideals of exceptionalism and unbridled consumerism values, just as it caused the estrangement of Abraham from the land of his father, the Israelites from false Gods and later from the pax Romana and the imperial cult in the first century. Wisdom 18:6-9 The Book of Wisdom, or the Wisdom of Solomon, is a Jewish work written...