Kindness And Truth

R. Kindness and truth shall meet: Show us, O LORD, your mercy, and grant us your salvation. Near indeed is his salvation to those who fear him, glory dwelling in our land.

R. Kindness and truth shall meet: Kindness and truth shall meet; justice and peace shall kiss. Truth shall spring out of the earth, and justice shall look down from heaven.

R. Kindness and truth shall meet: The LORD himself will give his benefits; our land shall yield its increase. Justice shall walk before him, and salvation, along the way of his steps.

R. Kindness and truth shall meet.

Today’s responsorial psalm speaks of a meeting between two attributes: kindness and truth. We all should attend that meeting especially because there will be kissing, and who doesn’t like a kiss?  Justice and peace shall kiss in what we would envision as in a loving embrace.

Not all meetings go well, and many people don’t like meetings at all.  Therefore, getting kindness and truth and then justice and peace to meet may seem like a fools’ errand especially after the “mob’s” January 6 insurrection in the Capitol.  But now we have a new Administration and leadership.  We pray the “LORD himself will give his benefits and our land shall yield its increase,” safety, prosperity, and unity.   Amen.

Deacon David Pierce