“Give thanks to the LORD, invoke his name; make known among the nations his deeds. Sing to him, sing his praise, proclaim all his wondrous deeds.” This is the first verse that we hear in today’s psalm. This psalm of praise recounts the wondrous deeds that the Lord has done for Israel and for his people.
For many of us, Ancient Israel seems so distant and faraway. We hear about the story of Abraham in the first readings this week, about God promising to make a great nation of Abraham and his descendants, of God speaking to Abraham in a dream. And we celebrate some great saints in the next few days from the Early Church Fathers who passed down the faith to us, including St Cyril of Alexandria, St Peter, and St Paul. Through these readings from Genesis and through the lives of these saints, we hear about the struggles that went on in Ancient Israel, of the persecutions and the heresies that the Early Church Fathers battled. Many of us think all of this is so faraway and so far removed from our reality. Yet, religious freedom is under attack in our country and around the world.
How are we witnesses for our faith in our modern world? How are proclaiming the wondrous deeds of the Lord to all the nations?
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