Lectio Divina: For the 13th Week in Ordinary Time

Please read slowly and reflectively.

Slowly count to five at the end of each line.

A READING FROM PSALM 30 (FIRST READER ONLY)

I WILL PRAISE YOU, O MY BELOVED, /

FOR YOU HAVE RAISED ME UP/

AND HAVE NOT LET FEAR OVERWHELM ME./

LOVE WITHDRAWS WHEN WE CLOSE OUR HEARTS/

YET EVER AWAITS AN OPEN DOOR./

IN THE EVENING, WE MAY WEEP/

YET JOY COMES WITH THE MORNING./

O LOVE, COME TO MY ASSISTANCE!/

YOU HAVE TURNED MY MOURNING INTO DANCING,/

YOU SET ME FREE/

AND CLOTHED ME WITH GLADNESS./

I WILL BE GRATEFUL TO YOU FOREVER./