On Sundays, Night Prayer will focus on an element from the day's celebration of Mass. Tonight we reflect on today's gospel and Jesus calling others to follow him...
As the day ends, Lord, I often look back and wonder:
- did I spend my day as you intended me to live it?
- did I give as readily and generously as I might have?
- did I love others, today, as graciously as you love me?
- did I... wait a minute!
I'll bet you have questions for me, Lord:
questions not just for today
- but for my whole life...
And it won't surprise me, Lord, if your questions for me
are far more probing
than the ones I pose for myself...
So, I'll take some time tonight, Lord, before I go to bed,
to consider your questions for me
and to ponder your summons for me to love others
as you have loved me...
Don't let me be overwhelmed by your questions, Lord!
They offer an agenda for a lifetime...
Just help me consider them, ponder them
and take them seriously, a day at a time...
And as always, Lord:
Protect me while I'm still awake
and watch over me as I sleep
that awake, I might keep watch with you,
and asleep, rest in your peace...
Amen.
(This video sings what the Lord asks of us:
what he summons out of us, day in and day out...)
The Summons by Graham Maule and John Bell
Will you come and follow me
If I but call your name?
Will you go where you don't know
And never be the same?
Will you let my love be shown,
Will you let my name be known,
Will you let my life be grown
In you and you in me?
Will you leave yourself behind
If I but call your name?
Will you care for cruel and kind
And never be the same?
Will you risk the hostile stare
Should your life attract or scare?
Will you let me answer prayer
In you and you in me?
Will you let the blinded see
If I but call your name?
Will you set the prisoners free
And never be the same?
Will you kiss the leper clean,
And do such as this unseen,
And admit to what I mean
In you and you in me?
Will you love the 'you' you hide
If I but call your name?
Will you quell the fear inside
And never be the same?
Will you use the faith you've found
To reshape the world around,
Through my sight and touch and sound
In you and you in me?
Lord, your summons echoes true
When you but call my name.
Let me turn and follow you
And never be the same.
In your company I'll go
Where your love and footsteps show.
Thus I'll move and live and grow
In you and you in me.
Don't let me be overwhelmed by your questions, Lord!
They offer an agenda for a lifetime...
Just help me consider them, ponder them
and take them seriously, a day at a time...
And as always, Lord:
Protect me while I'm still awake
and watch over me as I sleep
that awake, I might keep watch with you,
and asleep, rest in your peace...
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