Daily Mass: Let your mercy come to us, O Lord

Today is Tuesday of the 28th week of the year.

Our responsorial Psalm is taken from Psalm 119.

This is verses 41, 43, 44, 45, 47, and 48.

And the response, "Let your mercy come to me, O Lord.

Let your mercy come to me, O Lord, your salvation according to your promise.

Take not the word of truth from my mouth, for in your ordinances is my hope.

And I will keep your law continually forever and ever.

And I will walk at liberty because I seek your precepts.

And I will delight in your commands, which I love.

And I will lift up my hands to your commands and meditate on your statutes.

Let your mercy come to me, O Lord." Now, Psalm 119 is the longest Psalm in the book of Psalms, and it's, it is vast.

It has about 176 verses to it.

We only have a few of them.

So this very long Psalm has a, a lot of beauty and insight to it.

And what we have here is a beautiful reminder of our need for God's grace, in this case particularly God's mercy, the mercy that we need when we've strayed, when we've sinned.