2022-Jul-03: Fourteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time
2022-Jul-03: Fourteenth 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 When God decides to call on someone to be a disciple - one has to be ready to leave it all and follow the one true living God Isaiah 66:10-14 Today's reading are from the final chapters in the book of Isaiah reinforcing 3 themes: Call to rejoice, Jerusalem as a mother and God comforting the children of Jerusalem. The "Third Isaiah” (chapters 56–66) was written in the years following the return of Judean exiles from Babylon to Jerusalem in 538 BCE. ...