Prayer
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Prayer
THE O ANTIPHONS
O Root of Jesse,
standing as a sign among the peoples,
before you kings will shut their mouths;
to you the nations will make their prayer.
Come and deliver us, and delay no longer.
Taken from The New Ancient Collects
O Root of Jesse,
standing as a sign among the peoples,
before you kings will shut their mouths;
to you the nations will make their prayer.
Come and deliver us, and delay no longer.
Taken from The New Ancient Collects
God doesn’t need [reminders from us] to be merciful; [God] is merciful all the time, even when we don’t ask. But unless we make a habit of asking for mercy, we forget that we need it. . . .
Prayer of the Heart
What I found was that it was the prayers and practices of the church that allowed me to hold to—or rather to be held by—God when little else seemed sturdy, to hold to the Christian story even when I found no satisfying answers.
Tish Harrison Warren • Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep
“Yesterday the Lamb was slain and the
doorposts were anointed, and Egypt
bewailed her Firstborn, and the Destroyer
passed us over, and the Seal was dreadful
and reverend, and we were walled in
with the Precious Blood. Today we have
clean escaped from Egypt and from
Pharaoh; and there is none to hinder us
from keeping a Feast to the Lord our
God—the Feast of... See more
doorposts were anointed, and Egypt
bewailed her Firstborn, and the Destroyer
passed us over, and the Seal was dreadful
and reverend, and we were walled in
with the Precious Blood. Today we have
clean escaped from Egypt and from
Pharaoh; and there is none to hinder us
from keeping a Feast to the Lord our
God—the Feast of... See more
PRAYER
Grant us, O God, a vision of our land
that is as beautiful as it could be:
a land of justice where none shall prey on others;
a land of plenty where poverty shall cease to fester;
a land of kinship where success
shall be founded on service;
a land of peace where order shall rest not on force
but on the love of everyone for their community.
Give us gr... See more
Grant us, O God, a vision of our land
that is as beautiful as it could be:
a land of justice where none shall prey on others;
a land of plenty where poverty shall cease to fester;
a land of kinship where success
shall be founded on service;
a land of peace where order shall rest not on force
but on the love of everyone for their community.
Give us gr... See more
Beyond putting us in touch with other people, prayer puts us in touch with God.
Harold S. Kushner • When Bad Things Happen to Good People
How we need to pray, "Lord, increase our faith," until doubt be gone, and implicit trust claims the promised blessings, as its very own.
E. M. Bounds • The Complete Works of E.M. Bounds on Prayer
PRAYER
CONFESSION: Eternal God, you are truth.
We have been deceived;
misguided by lies,
and disoriented by darkness.
In our error, correct us.
In our repentance, forgive us.
In our ignorance, illuminate us.
Jesus, your name is above every other name:
I worship you.
A prayer of Kari Kristina Reeves,
adapted from Canyon Road: A Book of Prayer
CONFESSION: Eternal God, you are truth.
We have been deceived;
misguided by lies,
and disoriented by darkness.
In our error, correct us.
In our repentance, forgive us.
In our ignorance, illuminate us.
Jesus, your name is above every other name:
I worship you.
A prayer of Kari Kristina Reeves,
adapted from Canyon Road: A Book of Prayer
It is not, however, one individual, but it is one Body; but Christ’s Body is the Church (see Colossians 1:24). Such longing indeed is not found in all who enter the Church; but if you have tasted the sweetness of the Lord, and own in Christ that for which you long, do not think that you are the only ones, but know that there are such seeds scattere
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