2022-Sep-4: Twenty-third Sunday of Ordinary Time
2022-Sep-4: Twenty-third 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. The theme of the liturgy The theme is Human limitation in understanding the true purpose of God's divine plan. Wisdom 9:13-18b This passage explains most clearly why humans cannot divine, predict, forecast or even understand what God plans or will do. Put plainly humans cannot fathom God's intentions or plans because humans always see things through the filter of their own limited lives and ultimate death. Thus humans project their worries and temporal concerns upon any qu...