As you reflect further on the theme of the Suffering Servant featured in this week's readings, remember that you, too, are called to be Servant. Consider the words of Rory Cooney's "Servant Song" as a call to discipleship for all, as reflected in the especially powerful refrain:
Who is my servant?
Where is she?
My light to the nations,
Where is he?
In prison and palace my gospel who told,
And living my gospel became.
This is my servant, whom I shall uphold:
His name is
Christ
Is her name.
Who answers to slander with silence,
And vengeance returns not for violence,
Who shouts in the darkness to people grown cold
A word that shall set them aflame:
This is my servant, whom I shall uphold.
His name is
Christ
Is her name.
Who sing of my love in their living,
Whose days are a prayer of thanksgiving,
Who seek not the glamor of glory and gold,
For I am their fortune and fame.
This is my servant, whom I shall uphold:
His name is
Christ
Is her name.
Who stand in the storm like a beacon,
With hope for the ravaged and weakened,
Whose presence is healing for young and for old,
To friend and to stranger the same:
This is my servant, whom I shall uphold.
His name is
Christ
Is her name.
Who, choosing a way I will show them,
Will trust that I care for my chosen,
Where is the spouse who is faithful to one,
And thus to the children proclaims:
This, my Beloved, my daughter, my son:
His name is Christ,
Christ is her name.
