Good Shepherd Sunday Altar Flowers

Usquequo, Domine. A prayer in tribulation.

Unto the end, a psalm for David.

How long, O Lord, wilt thou forget me unto the end? How long dost thou turn away thy face from me? How long shall I take counsels in my soul, sorrow in my heart all the day? How long shall my enemy be exalted over me? Consider, and hear me, O Lord my God. Enlighten my eyes that I never sleep in death: Lest at any time my enemy say: I have prevailed against him. They that trouble me will rejoice when I am moved: But I have trusted in thy mercy. My heart shall rejoice in thy salvation: I will sing to the Lord, who giveth me good things: yea I will sing to the name of the Lord the most high.

Psalm 12, Douay- Rheims Bible

Arrangements: "Bach" lilies from the local bulb farm and white centranthus and boxwood greens from my garden.

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