Tuesday 25th August, 2009
ST LOUIS IX. ST JOSEPH CALASANZ.
 1 Thessalonians 2:1-8. You have searched me and you know me, Lord—Ps 138(139):1‑3, 4-6. Matthew 23:23-26.

  
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You have searched me and you know me, Lord
To be cared for, and trusted, waited for and loved.
Not knowing why, nor whether it is true or not,
And doubting against our body’s life.
To be searched for and being asked to be searched.
Without judgement but with the hope of peace.
Being found to be hypocrites, preserved despite it, and being forgiven.
Who can stand in the midst of these promises and be calm?
When all about us we judge, condemning what in us we do not understand.
When, in the earth we were made, and kept until birth, who among us stood up by themselves?
Why, then, do we ask to be left?
Either unseen or in distress?
When there is no reason to cry or seek an unwatched freedom.