Today is a day for masks, but in Christ we are growing in glory.
Now the Lord is the Spirit
And where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
[Freedom from fear, and soon from covid.}
And we all, who with unmasked faces reflect the Lord’s glory
are being transformed into his image
with ever-increasing glory,
which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
Prayer (Thomas Merton)
My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going.
I do not see the road ahead of me.
I cannot know for certain where it will end.
Nor do I really know myself,
and the fact that I think that I am following your will
does not mean that I am actually doing so.
But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.
And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing.
I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire.
And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road,
though I may know nothing about it.
Therefore will I trust you always,
though I may seem to be lost
and in the shadow of death.
I will not fear, for you are ever with me,
and you will never leave me to face my perils alone. Amen.