Episode 441 - Becoming luminous chalices for God's presence

<p>Thu of 21st week of Ordinary Time<a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/1thessalonians/3?7"><br> 1 Thes 3:7-13</a></p> <p>We have been reassured about you, brothers and sisters,<br> in our every distress and affliction, through your faith.<br> For we now live, if you stand firm in the Lord.</p> <p>What thanksgiving, then, can we render to God for you,<br> for all the joy we feel on your account before our God?<br> Night and day we pray beyond measure to see you in person<br> and to remedy the deficiencies of your faith.<br> Now may God himself, our Father, and our Lord Jesus<br> direct our way to you, and may the Lord make you increase<br> and abound in love for one another and for all,<br> just as we have for you,<br> so as to strengthen your hearts,&nbsp;<br> to be blameless in holiness before our God and Father<br> at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his holy ones. Amen.</p> <h3>Responsorial Psalm</h3> <p><a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/psalms/90?3">90:3-5a, 12-13, 14 and 17</a></p> <p>R. (14) <strong>Fill us with your love, O Lord, and we will sing for joy!</strong><br> You turn man back to dust,<br> saying, “Return, O children of men.”<br> For a thousand years in your sight<br> are as yesterday, now that it is past,<br> or as a watch of the night.<br> R.<strong> Fill us with your love, O Lord, and we will sing for joy!</strong><br> Teach us to number our days aright,<br> that we may gain wisdom of heart.<br> Return, O LORD! How long?<br> Have pity on your servants!<br> R. <strong>Fill us with your love, O Lord, and we will sing for joy!</strong><br> Fill us at daybreak with your kindness,<br> that we may shout for joy and gladness all our days.<br> And may the gracious care of the LORD our God be ours;<br> prosper the work of our hands for us!<br> Prosper the work of our hands!<br> R. <strong>Fill us with your love, O Lord, and we will sing for joy!</strong></p> <h3>Alleluia</h3> <p><a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew/24?42">Mt 24:42a, 44</a></p> <p>R. <strong>Alleluia, alleluia.</s