Lectionary

What was once paralyzed by sin is now able to lift itself in active, posture-driven worship and obedience.

The verse puts praise into our mouths for the reality of the gospel about to be announced and latent within the preceding lectionary text.

The absolved people of God now anticipate the voice of Jesus Christ, the one who cuts the new covenant in his own blood, inspiring a new song in the hearts of renewed humanity.

so the temple of the church becomes to us the resort the place that we go for eucharistic and sacramental refuge in which christ is present with his people the sparrows and the swallows they make their home near god's altars in verse 3 which naturally prefigures god's regenerated children us finding rest and safety and spiritual nourishment at the eucharistic altar and so correspondingly The springs of the Valley of Baca in verse 6, they represent the sacraments in the Word of God, which convey grace to us, the sustained pilgrims, renewing us from strength to strength, verse 7, amidst all kinds of worldly hardships.

And then preferring to be a doorkeeper in the house of my God.

That models the posture of Christian worship.

It inspires both liturgical ministries, ushers, porters, sextons, altar guilds, acolytes, deacons, clergy, and the general vocation of Christian service, where the humble labor in God's kingdom, and that outranks any kind of worldly status.

And so we are on the eschatological pilgrimage.

It's just talking about in the immediate context.

That's why it's often useful to compare the Lectionary translation with other Bible translations because sometimes the Lectionary makes things a bit more poetic, or it adds words in to give it a, a better flow to the sentence, which makes sense because it's in the context of being read at mass.

Uh, but sometimes, uh, it's not entirely accurate, and here's one of those cases.

So Jesus says to them, "Nothing shall hurt you," and that's quite a remarkable promise.

And this mirrors the content of the lesson from Proverbs 25, which warns against claiming places of honor in the presence of the king.

And then there is the critical topic of the unity of faith.

the epistle from saint paul to the ephesians chapter 4 there the apostle urges christians to walk with lowliness and meekness and long suffering eager to maintain as he says unity in the spirit in the bond of peace which would be anchored one lord one faith one baptism so factionalism division and self-aggrandizement are all detrimental to the mission and the purpose of the holy church we must not only treasure our catholicity we must strive to preserve it and defend it lest we degenerate into a provincial subculture and then works of mercy on the sabbath is a topic as well by healing the afflicted man despite the scrutiny of the pharisees Christ Jesus demonstrates that true Sabbath keeping emerges from divine mercy and act of love rather than legalistic hypocrisy.

And here again, we find connections with walking in the spirit, life in the spirit, as opposed to constraining legalism as the terminative.

Just as a liturgical note, our color again is green.

In truth, it establishes that true righteousness resides in God's nature and law, not in human pride or hypocritical traditions.

In verse 124, we find virtue in pleading mercy over the assertion of merit, praying, deal with your servant according to your steadfast love or mercy, and teach me your statutes.

This models the very posture taught in the parable of the wedding feast by our Lord, but also latent in Proverbs 25, our Old Testament text.