Today is Sunday the 8th of September, beginning the 23rd week of ordinary time.

You are word to be praised. You are a word to be praised.

You are a word

to be praised.

You are high and live.

Checo Anchor and Nicky Lathbridge sing High and Lifted.

How much you join in with this song today?

You are high and lifted. you join in with this song today. You are high and lifted

We're surrounded by your presence of God

Oh

You are high and lifted

Your glory fills your glory fills the space of God.

I hear the sound of angels.

I hear the sound of heaven.

I see your glory fill this place of God. Today's reading is from the prophet Isaiah.

Say to those who are of a fearful heart,

be strong, do not fear. Here is your God.

He will come with vengeance, with terrible recompense, he will come and save you.

Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the death unstopped.

Then the lame shall leap like a deer, and the ears of the death unstopped. Then the lame shall leap like a deer,

and the tongue of the speechless sing for joy. For water shall break forth in the wilderness and streams in the desert. The burning sand shall become a pool and the thirsty ground springs of water.

The haunt of jackals shall become a swamp.

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