I’m picking up William Law today, English priest whose commemoration we missed because it was a Sunday.

                   Easter Antiphon on Canticle 9

             Matthew 5:1-10 On the Sea of Galilee 

You 

shall 

draw 

water 

with 

rejoic-

ing 

from 

the springs 

of salvation, hallelujah.

In his book A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life., William Law says ”If we are to follow Christ, it must be in our common way of spending every day.”  He apparently took his own counsel: he was ”such a stellar defender of the poor,... that it so offended the local Vicar that he preached a sermon denouncing 

such a discriminant charity.”! 

Pray this day

for all who by their writing & example, help Christians to pray. For the church’s work among the poor & needy.  For those who suffer at the hands of  oppressors. For grace that our may lives may reflect our prayers. (All thanks to TheNew Lutheran Book…)