Daily Scripture Reflection & Prayer: February 28, 2025

Date: Friday of the 7th Week in Ordinary Time

Scripture Text: Psalm 119:12, 16, 18, 27, 34, 35

R. Guide me, Lord, in the way of your commands.

Blessed are you, O LORD;

teach me your statutes.

R. Guide me, Lord, in the way of your commands.

In your statutes I will delight;

I will not forget your words.

R. Guide me, Lord, in the way of your commands.

Open my eyes, that I may consider

the wonders of your law.

R. Guide me, Lord, in the way of your commands.

Make me understand the way of your precepts,

and I will meditate on your wondrous deeds.

R. Guide me, Lord, in the way of your commands.

Give me discernment, that I may observe your law

and keep it with all my heart.

R. Guide me, Lord, in the way of your commands.

Lead me in the path of your commands,

for in it I delight.

R. Guide me, Lord, in the way of your commands.

Breaking the text open – background and summary:

The responsorial psalm for today call upon the LORD to “teach me your statutes.” A short and simple psalm, it goes to the heart of our relationship with the LORD based on love. The LORD’s statutes are simple – Love the LORD and love one another. Yet in its simplicity, the law of the LORD brings us delight in that it helps our relationships, our most essential endeavors, to flourish and us with them.

Meditating on the text with personal questions:

Do I consider the wonder of the LORD’s law in its simplicity and strength? Do I observe the law of love with all my heart?

Praying:

LORD, You are our LORD, our Creator, Savior, Sanctifier. We are because of your love. And You call upon us, created in your image and likeness, to live faithfully and true to our origin in love itself. You call us to love You always and everywhere with all our being, with mind, heart, strength, and soul. And You call us to love one another as You love us. Stir the fire of love within us that we might spend our lives well and lovingly. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.