27 May 2018
On the Sacraments
He that is wounded requires medicine;
we are wounded,
because we are under sin; and the
medicine is the sacred
and heavenly sacrament.
ST. AMBROSE, On the Sacraments, PAR 25
24 November 2017
Rid us, O Lord
Rid us, O Lord, of the arrogant
delusion that our age is harder to live in,
harder to live through and be
decent in than any age that ever was, that
we are being tried as
our fathers never were, that we have more excuse
for our neurotic
screaming, our pitiful muddling, our eroded standards,
our
sentimental slobbering, our pinching terror at the shadows of the
future cast upon our way than any men who ever walked beneath Your
heaven and on Your earth.
Teach us, O Lord, by Your sane and
steadying Word that we stand before
You as we always stood, living
of Your grace and moving toward Your
judgment, that the Bomb
and the terrible technological trifles of our time
have not altered
the great plain, steady fact that You are Lord and have not
changed the
blessed time of Your coming as a thief in the night.
MARTIN H. FRANZMANN, Prayer for Joy, P 51.
2 July 2017
Guide My Tongue
Guide my tongue, O
Blessed Wisdom, so that it may not
Deviate from truth
for the rest of my life. Remind me of
Your presence, so
that I may be afraid to utter falsehood.
Encourage me with
Your presence, so that I may freely
speak the truth.
Bishop Nikolai Velimirovich
Prayers by the Lake, p. 138
16 June 2017
Christ in Need
When you receive another, you receive Him. [...]
Let a hungry Christ be fed here, a thirsty Christ to be
given drink, a naked Christ to be clothed, a foreigner
Christ to be taken in, an ill Christ be visited,” he said.
“These are needs that arise on the journey. This is
how we are to live in a world where Christ is in need.
ST. AUGUSTINE
Christ in Need
When you receive another, you receive Him. [...]
Let a hungry Christ be fed here, a thirsty Christ to be
given drink, a naked Christ to be clothed, a foreigner
Christ to be taken in, an ill Christ be visited,” he said.
“These are needs that arise on the journey. This is
how we are to live in a world where Christ is in need.
ST. AUGUSTINE
11 June 2017
The Politics of Discipleship
The Politics of Discipleship
As Christians, we bring to God all the concerns and connections
we have with the contemporary world [...]: the crisis of democracy,
the reduction of life to economics and consumption, and the
various roles that religion is playing and being forced to play in the
public sphere. Praying is thus the most political act any Christian
can engage in—richly layered, nuanced, and continuous.
Graham Ward
we have with the contemporary world [...]: the crisis of democracy,
the reduction of life to economics and consumption, and the
various roles that religion is playing and being forced to play in the
public sphere. Praying is thus the most political act any Christian
can engage in—richly layered, nuanced, and continuous.
Graham Ward
04 June 2017
Come, Oh Holy Ghost
Come, Oh Holy Ghost
Come oh Holy Ghost, come from heav'n above, light of light divine,
Oh come to us, oh father of the poor, You are the source of all earthly store,
Guide our coming, guide our going, as we pray to you,
You alone the saving grace, Spirit of truth heal our wounds,
Our strength renew, Come oh Holy Ghost.
Oh come to us, oh father of the poor, You are the source of all earthly store,
Guide our coming, guide our going, as we pray to you,
You alone the saving grace, Spirit of truth heal our wounds,
Our strength renew, Come oh Holy Ghost.
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