When I was a young acolyte, I would don an ill-fitting cassock and gather with the clergy and servers before Mass in a small sacristy. We stood in a circle and recited Psalm 43, which begins, “Give judgment for me, O God, and defend my cause against an ungodly people. Deliver me from the deceitful….

(View this reading and more resources for prayer at Daily Prayer: A resource of Forward Movement.)

This post appeared here first: Forward Day By Day – June 17, 2020

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