PRIEST: We celebrate God’s great generosity in sowing so liberally the seed of His Word into our world and into our hearts. He challenges us to be open soil, prepared and receptive to welcome the Divine Gift of the Word that is Life. He further challenges us to become new sowers of the seed of the Word in the field of today’s world. Let us reflect on our openness to receiving the Word, and our generosity in sowing the Word.
READER: For the times we are hard ground, unyielding and resistant
to the Word of God for today’s world,
closed to God’s new vision for today’s Church
LORD HAVE MERCY…
For the times we are shallow soil, with hollow commitment
easily defeated by difficulty and suffering
CHRIST HAVE MERCY…
For humanity’s sowing of seeds of exploitation and destruction
into the soil of our ‘common home’, the Earth;
for causing Global Warming and not acting decisively to heal our planet
LORD HAVE MERCY…
PRIEST: May the Father speak His Word
of unconditional forgiveness to our hearts;
May Jesus the Word set us free for generous love;
May the Spirit utter the Word of God’s freedom deep within our being;
and bring all Creation to everlasting life
AMEN!