A Penitent Blogger

Mindful of my imperfections, seeking to know Truth more deeply and to live Love more fully.

Quid sum miser tunc dicturus? Quem patronum rogaturus? Cum vix iustus sit securus?
Recordare, Iesu pie, Quod sum causa tuae viae: Ne me perdas illa die...

Friday, December 04, 2009

"The loveliness of the LORD"

Beauty captures us:
beauty in creation,
beauty in human beings,
beauty in art.

How much more beautiful God must be:
the One from whom all beauty derives.

Thus says the Psalmist in today’s Responsorial
(Psalm 27:1, 4, 13-14):

One thing I ask of the LORD;
this I seek:
To dwell in the house of the LORD
all the days of my life,
That I may gaze on the loveliness of the LORD...