The Responsorial Psalm for the Mass for Thursday of the First Week of Lent is from Psalm 138:3:
Lord, on the day I called for help, you answered me
Gratitude is the topic for today. When you were at your bottom, when all seemed lost and life was at its darkest, when you wished for death to escape the slavery of addiction, you called on God for help. It may notn have been in any recognized prayer, or even words, (mental or spoken.) But in some manner of will or action, you cried out to God for deliverance. And He responded. Somehow, you got the help you needed and yoiu’ve been clean and sober since then. One day? Twenty-five years? Not matter. How have you responded to His aid?
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