The Responsorial Psalm for the Mass of the Monday of Holy Week is from Psalm 27:1-3, 13-14
The Lord is my light and my salvation.
whom should I fear?
The LORD is my life’s refuge; of whom should I be afraid?
When evildoers come at me to devour my flesh,
My foes and my enemies
themselves stumble and fall.Though an army encamp against me,
my heart will not fear;Though war be waged upon me,
even then will I trust.I believe that I shall see the bounty of the LORD
in the land of the living.Wait for the LORD with courage;
be stouthearted, and wait for the LORD.
It may take a prolonged period of “spiritual progress” to reach the level of serenity and sustained courage the psalm reflects. But it is possible. In these times of global warfare, rising prices at home as well as growing political corruption (and indifference to it by the deluded,) we need to focus on the promises offered by this psalm. Read and reread it; perhaps mark it in your Catholic Bible and refer to it often “in these troubling times.”
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