Verse & Voice – Sojourners – 15 June 2018

verse of the day

The Lord watches over the foreigner

and sustains the fatherless and the widow,

but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.

– Psalm 146:9

voice of the day

St. Paul was an apostle not of laws (we are not justified by laws, he says in Romans), but an apostle of a person: Jesus Christ. The one who said, ‘I was a stranger and you did not welcome me’ (Mt. 25).

– Fr. James Martin, SJ

prayer of the day

Help us to win over our enemies by our love and wear them down with grace.

– Adapted from Common Prayer