Tag: Presentation of the Lord

Vespers: 28^th World Day of Consecrated Life

February 2, 2024
Saint Bartholomew the Apostle Parish
Fort Worth, Texas

Psalm 11:1-5, 7
Psalm 129
Colossians 1:12-20
Hebrews 4:15-16

Many of us learned in clinical pastoral education, and even more so in our religious formation, that it is insensitive to respond to the expressed suffering of others with the response, “I know how you feel.” This response is seldom uttered by the truly empathetic and usually is made as an introduction into a diatribe about one’s own sufferings. It is most often a response that is not spoken as the fruit of listening but simply to pacify another person in preparation for moving on to another subject.