Responsorial Psalm (Ps 84)
R. How lovely is your dwelling place, Lord, mighty God!
Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest
in which she puts her young—Your altars, O LORD of hosts, my king and my God!
R. How lovely is your dwelling place, Lord, mighty God!
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/072322.cfm
As the prophet Jeremiah reminds us, if we want to be the dwelling place of God, then we must thoroughly reform our ways and our deeds: to act with justice, to not oppress aliens nor widows and orphans, and to not shed innocent blood. We remember today the Virgin Mary, who sings the praises of God of justice who feeds the hungry and raises up the lowly.
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.
Saturday of the Blessed Virgin Mary, July 23
