St Mary Abbots Holy Tuesday Address

Psalm 122
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Song of Praise and Prayer for Jerusalem
A Song of Ascents. Of David.1I was glad when they said to me, ‘Let us go to the house of the Lord!’ 2Our feet are standing within your gates, O Jerusalem.
3Jerusalem—built as a city that is bound firmly together. 4To it the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord,as was decreed for Israel, to give thanks to the name of the Lord. 5For there the thrones for judgement were set up, the thrones of the house of David.
6Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: ‘May they prosper who love you. 7Peace be within your walls, and security within your towers.’ 8For the sake of my relatives and friends I will say, ‘Peace be within you.’ For the sake of the house of the Lord our God, I will seek your good.

Jesus going up to Jerusalem

Jerusalem - the City!
A place where people go to make sense of the world.

The City where God resides

This is a Psalm concerned with peace.

Psalmist says:

We take everything with us

We pray for peace and security

Something we share

"God's peace has something to do with the acceptance of God's world in its complexity."
Rowan Williams

"Establishing peace is the very essence of sonship."
Pope Benedict

"Let nothing ever disturb you,
Nothing affright you;
All things are passing,
God never changes.
Patient endurance
Attains to all things;
Who God possesses
In nothing is wanting:
Alone God suffices".
St Teresa of Avila