These reflections are a result of more than 40 years of ministry as a Roman Catholic priest. Most of these years I spent in the Diocese of Charlotte which covers Western North Carolina. Now I am retired, and live in Medellín, Colombia where I continue to serve as a priest in the Archdiocese of Medellín.

Wednesday, Week XXI, Ordinary Time

Responsorial Psalm (Psalm 139)
R.    You have searched me and you know me, Lord.
Where can I go from your spirit?
    

From your presence where can I flee?
 If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
 if I sink to the nether world, you are present there.


R.    You have searched me and you know me, Lord.


If I take the wings of the dawn,
 if I settle at the farthest limits of the sea,
 Even there your hand shall guide me,
 and your right hand hold me fast.


R.    You have searched me and you know me, Lord.

Today’s psalm reminds us that God knows us better than we know ourselves. There is nowhere we can go to escape the “Hound of Heaven” as the poet Francis Thompson refers to God. Today's picture is the painting The Hound of Heaven by William Kurelek.