Let us climb the mountain with you,
our humanity
longs to be transfigured,
embraced in its wound
illumined in its night
sheltered in its homelessness
listened to in its groaning
caressed in its limit
healed in its heartbreak
transfigured in its desolation.
May the faces disfigured
by war and hunger
be transfigured by you.
May the disfigured faces
of migrants at the borders
be illuminated by your hope.
May no face be invisible
to our gaze.
We need your light
to transform our faces
and in every face we see a brother/sister.
We need your voice to envelop us,
your restlessness to mobilize us.
Transform our hearts
to weave the threads of communion
in our small and brief existence,
and as long as our pilgrimage lasts
we hope that Love will transform to be fully illumined.
Amen.
Sister Jacqueline Sothers MDR