Lectio Divina: For the 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time

Please read slowly and reflectively.

Slowly count to five at the end of each line.

A READING FROM PSALM 68 (FIRST READER ONLY.)

Fill us with your love, a comforter!/

Let our fears be transformed;/

Let all that keeps us confused and separated, flee!/

Merciful to the poor and kind to the lowly/

Is the comforter that dwells within./

With compassion, are the desolate given a home/

Prisoners are set free./

But those who run from love,/

Live in a parched land./

The beloved will empower us with love,/

As we face the fears within./

Sing to the one whose voice is heard in silence./