Today is Tuesday the 18th of June in the 11th week of ordinary time.

The 11th week of ordinary time. Listen, God, please pay attention.

Can you make sense

of all my groans

and my cries?

Listen, God,

I need your help.

Every morning

you'll hear me at it again every morning i lay out the pieces of my life on your altar.

Davy, with the porter's gate, sings a setting of Psalm 5.

As you listen, are you able to lay the pieces of your life on God's altar?

Listen, God, I need your help.

Every morning you'll heed me at it again every morning I lay out the pieces of my

life on your altar.

Every morning I lay at the pieces of my life on your altar.

And watch for fire to decent

Oh, I watch for fire to descend

Today's reading is from the Gospel of Matthew. I watch for fire to descend.

You have heard that it was said, you shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.

But I say to you, love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you,

so that you may be children of your father in heaven. For he makes his son rise on the evil

and on the good, and sends reign on the righteous, and on the unrighteous. For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers and sisters, what more are you doing than others?

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