Jun 9: The Glory of God Revealed to All Who Believe

Gustave Doré: The Glory of God
The Doré Bible Illustrations, 1974

Feast of Saint Columba (Colum Cille), abbot and missionary, secondary patron of Ireland

Reading I: 2 Cor 3:15—4:1, 3-6

And all of us, with unveiled faces, seeing the glory of the Lord as though reflected in a mirror, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another; for this comes from the Lord, the Spirit (NRSV, 2 Cor 3:18).

Father, all of us, even from the womb, who say “yes” to the challenge of the Word always present to us, find ourselves immediately in your presence. The Spirit is given to us through the Word and we become sharers in your own divine life.

Help us, Father, to commit ourselves ever more fully to you that we may grow in your life in every situation and come to experience the fullness of your glory which bathes us even now in this world.

Through Christ our Lord. Amen.