Send out your light and your truth; let them guide me. Let them lead me to your holy mountain, to the place where you live.
Psalm 43:3
"Rejoice with Jerusalem! Be glad with her, all you who love her and all you who mourn for her.
Isaiah 66:10
She came along just as Simeon was talking with Mary and Joseph, and she began praising God. She talked about the child to everyone who had been waiting expectantly for God to rescue Jerusalem.
Luke 2:38
Teacher, stories of Jerusalem are complicated and sad. Help us to understand how the place of death and destruction becomes the image of light and joy. It can only happen through the transformation of the risen Christ. Thanks be to God. Amen.
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