6/11/23 Through 6/17/23

 6/11/23 Through 6/17/23

Sunday - Feast of Corpus Christi

(To the tune of Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence)

Here in thoughtful time reflecting

On that great and wonderous gift

Soul and body Christ protecting

Sin from in the sinner sift

Alleluia, Alleluia,

Needy poor and beggar lift

Bread of heaven feed and guide me

Precious Blood my drink Divine

Wounded heart to lead and hide me

In the boundless love of Thine

Alleluia, Alleluia,

Greatest gift of all is mine.

Daily Eucharist is calling

To the table of the Lord

Day by day the curtain falling

Showing us how much out-poured

Alleluia, Alleluia,

Come receive the One adored.

Monday

In what does the love of our Savior consist

But in showing His children just how to exist

As humble and docile and innocent souls

Who vie for the lowly and servanthood roles

For there in the suffering, anguish, and pain

The greatest of insight and wisdom they gain

Not seen in the moment but over the years

How truly were blessings from God with the tears

Just look how He tells us what's good and sublime

And how to the mountain of God we should climb

Be meek and grant mercy, be mournful and poor

But know that in heaven your place is for sure.

Tuesday

Morning by morning He opens my ear

Giving grace to respond to all that I hear

The question is How do I listen each day,

How well do I act on all that You say?

The lamp should give light to all in the room

dispelling the darkness and brightening gloom

Sharing, but always, the flame undiminished

Only by doing will work e'er be finished

Wednesday

All of the happy have sacrificed much

They followed the law and the promptings of such

For our God is loving and shows us the way

If we are but willing to trust and obey

Not a word or a letter is left unexplained

The fulfillment of all in the Son is attained

For one that is spotless, unblemished, and clean

We all must become through the mercy we've seen

Don't call a sin "little", for nary such thing

Perfection is what all who enter must bring

It's there right before us if we would but try

By accepting His mercy and training the eye.

Thursday

Let the veil be gone forever

Let the veil be now removed

Let us here, the sinful sever

Truth within the heart be proved

Look to clearer skies before us

See without the haze of sin

Let the Spirit's light restore us

Freshening the light within.

Friday

Ablaze with love, the Sacred Heart

Such love, I wish to know

So often seen in sacred art

But rarely known, one so.

Aflame in one Immaculate

Without the stain of sin

A one that loves like Him in that

She's clean and pure within.

That I, one day, would be as such

I can't imagine now

But to that hope, I pray and clutch

That I would change somehow.

By grace, and with a helping hand

I too, could be afire

A one to act on His command

And quench my love's desire.  

Saturday

A heart that's clean and pure for me

I wish, someday, that I would see

Without the stain of sin to foul

Afar away from Satan's prowl

For now the world and devil reign

But in the Cross's shadow wane

For there upon that bloody hill

Our Savior sacrificed His will

His will subordinate to Love

Of righteous Father from above

To show the weak and humble man

How pure and clean his life began.

How sin destroys this purity

And what a life of love can be

He calls me to the Cross to see

The depth of love He has for me.