Psalm 119:41
Let
your
loving-
kind-
ness
come
to me,
O Lord,
& your
salvation,
according
to your
promise
*Matthew,
Apostle &
Evangelist
May we with ready wills & hearts respond to the calling of our Lord to follow him
The word in the collect is obey to, give ear," literally "listen to," from ob "to"+ audire "listen, hear.” And to hear with the heart is to respondand. And there is no overlay of compulsion there. In-
terestingly enough, the parish church of my youth was St Matthew’s and it was there that I first heard and leaned to reposed.
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