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Tuesday, September 2, 2025

Messiaen: All encompassing in all places

Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942
Meditation:
For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
—Psalm 139:13 (NIV)

Quotation:
All encompassing in all places,
All encompassing in each place,
Bestowing being upon each place,
On all that occupies a place,
 
The successive for You is simultaneous,
In these spaces and times that you created,
Satellites of your Gentleness.
Alight yourself like a seal, on my heart.
... Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992), Three Small Liturgies of the Divine Presence [1944], Paris: Editions Durand & Cie., c1952, sec. III
See also Ps. 139; Job 38:4-5; Ps. 20:6; Ps. 34:18; Matt. 4:17; Col. 1:27; Jas. 4:8

Quiet time reflection:
Lord, enfold me in Your Spirit.
 
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