In this Reading from today’s Mass of the Passion of our Lord for Palm Sunday, Isaiah says:

Isaiah 50:4-5: “The Lord GOD has given me a well-trained tongue, That I might know how to speak to the weary a word that will rouse them. Morning after morning he opens my ear that I may hear;

And I have not rebelled, have not turned back.”

(Via USCCB.)

Do you hear the Lord each morning? Do you pray every day to start it? Part of prayer is listening, for prayer is a conversation. Starting your day off with prayer is the best way to begin, it orients you in the proper direction.

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