(photo: Monarch Butterfly, Tom Delaney, St. John’s Abbey, Minnesota, 2025)
Inspiration from morning prayers (lauds) in the Liturgy of the Hours for today:
Let no evil talk come out of your mouths, but only what is useful for building up, as there is need, so that your words may give grace to those who hear. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which you were marked with a seal for the day of redemption. Put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice, and be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you.
This text is an original work of its author Tom Delaney and was entirely composed without the use of artificial intelligence (AI).
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