From our Old Testament reading, from Isaiah: ‘Is not this the fast that I choose: … Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover him, and not to hide yourself from your own flesh? Then shall your light break forth like the dawn, and your healing shall spring up speedily; your righteousness shall go before you, the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard. Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer; you shall cry, and he will say, Here I am’.

The Face of the Lord appears to us in many ways, particularly in the hungry, the homeless, the poor and the sick. In caring for them, the wounds of our own souls are healed. May God bless you and may your own healing ‘spring up speedily’.