This evening after Vespers, I prayed the “Prayer for our Deceased Sister” with the other Sisters and visitors in our Chapel for the first time in quite a while. We will be doing this for the rest of the week since one of our German Sisters died recently.

This prayer is offered in conjunction with Psalm 130: “Out of the Depths.” One phrase of this psalm was particularly striking to me this evening: “For with the Lord there is mercy…”

It is consoling to think that in the midst of our troubled world, facing natural disasters, murders, political unrest and other issues, “with the Lord there is mercy.”

We really cannot grasp how this mercy works and how far it extends. Without our even thinking about it, God’s mercy can work through us.