Peace to people of good will

The Gloria opens:

Gloria in Excelsis Deo.
Et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis.

Glory to God in the highest,
and on earth peace to people of good will.

Who on earth has good will?
The dividing line
Between good and evil
Cuts through each person’s heart.

Impure is the human heart
With so much trash.

Then, how could we make it?
How could our “will” be “good”?

Calm down!
Fear not, brothers and sisters!
God knows we’re stained-
No saints.

But God always loves us
For who we are
And what we are.
God loves all of us.
“God causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good,
and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.” (Matthew 5:45).

God loves
‘Cause God is Love. (1 John 4:16).

Ever since the Night the Angels sang
Gloria
God’s been sending us Peace —
the overflowing Peace River
Lasting
Into posterity
Forever and ever.

Thanks be to God Benevolent!

Gloria in Excelsis Deo!

Amen.

(TĐH Jan. 24, 2026)

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