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Eventide & Altar

The evening of life is not decline. It is deepening.

Daily reflections for Catholics who have spent decades at the altar - and are still becoming saints.

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Today's Readings

First Reading, Psalm, Gospel — referenced and linked

Reflection

A substantive meditation on the day’s scripture

The Rosary Today

The mysteries of the day, connected to the readings

Prayer of the Faithful

Intercessions you can carry to Mass or pray at home

Something to Do

A concrete way to live the reflection today

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Today's Readings

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Reflection

Taste and see how good the Lord is; blessed is the one who takes refuge in him. This poor man called and the Lord heard him and saved him from all his distress. The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear him and rescues them.

The psalm is the long-life evidence: the tasting and seeing has accumulated across the years. I sought the Lord and he answered me. The rescuing was real. The encampment of the angel was real. Not every prayer answered as expected - but the Lord heard, and the Lord saved, and the tasting-and-seeing continued.

The hundredfold is for everyone who has given up anything for my name. The giving up accumulates across a life. The elderly saint who has given up some version of comfort or freedom or preference for the sake of the name for decades is deep into the territory of the hundredfold. The receiving is in progress, and the inheritance of eternal life is waiting.

The Rosary Tonight

The Joyful Mysteries trace the earliest receiving of the hundredfold: Mary receives the son she could not have provided, Elizabeth receives the healing of barrenness, the magi receive the wisdom they were seeking. Pray them tonight as a meditation on the hundredfold that begins now and continues forever.

Prayer of the Faithful

For those who are deep in the wisdom-searching - who have applied ear and heart and voice and are still in the process - that the Lord's mouth would provide the knowledge they are digging for, we pray to the Lord.
For those who have given up much and are waiting for the hundredfold to become visible, that the tasting-and-seeing would come in this present age and not only in the next, we pray to the Lord.
In this Precious Blood month, for the Precious Blood that is the price of the inheritance promised to everyone who gives up anything for his name, we pray to the Lord.

Something to Do

I sought the Lord and he answered me. In the quiet of the evening, recall one time the Lord heard you and saved you from distress - one specific rescue from the long accumulation of tasting and seeing. Name it. Give thanks for the specific answer. The hundredfold is in the naming of what has already been received.