Wednesday, August 16, 2017*

                      ___________Canticle 11_ 

       Arise, 

       shine 

       for 

       your

       light

       has 

       come 

       and 

       the glory 

       of the Lord has 

       dawned upon you_______________ 

* We remember James Foley, born in 1973, 

   the Jesuit 

   educated   

   journalist 

   for NBC 

   who was 

   abducted 

   in war-torn Syria in 2012 and on 

   August 19, 2014, was beheaded 

   by the so-called "Islamic state." 

            In his last message 

            to his family he wrote:

"I pray for you to stay strong and to believe. I really feel I can touch you even in the darkness when I pray.” 

                                         ________*________

  I pray for us to strong and to believe.