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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
For glory means good report with God, acceptance by God, response, acknowledgement, and welcome into the heart of things. The door on which we have been knocking all our lives will open at last.
C. S. Lewis • Weight of Glory
The Risen Christ is, as Teilhard de Chardin tried to describe it, the divine lure, a blinking, brilliant light set as the Omega point of time and history that keeps reminding us that love, not death, is the eternal thing.
Richard Rohr - Immortal Diamond
LIBERATIONS
No performative bullshit
Silence and space are friends, not enemiesNo protocols
We live and come from a different realmNo shortcuts
The outcome is the fog—the process, motion, and change are clarity
Theodicy names the abstract “problem of pain”—the logical dilemma of how God can be good and all-powerful even as horrible things regularly happen in the world. And it also names the crisis of faith that often comes from an encounter with suffering.2
Tish Harrison Warren • Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep
So one can wonder whether Camus’s project isn’t governed—or at least stalked—by something like Augustine’s vision, a world that ought to have meaning, where evil is vanquished, where tragedy doesn’t have the last word, even if Camus concludes that’s not true.
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
Mystical Philosophy - By Peter Limberg - Less Foolish
lessfoolish.substack.comlessfoolish.substack.comMost merciful God, we confess that we have sinned against you in thought, word, and deed, by what we have done, and by what we have left undone. We have not loved you with our whole heart; we have not loved our neighbors as ourselves. We are truly sorry and we humbly repent. For the sake of your Son Jesus Christ, have mercy on us and forgive us; th
... See moreJames K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
splendor of light eternal
and Sun of righteousness:
come and enlighten those who dwell
in darkness and the shadow of death.
Taken from The New Ancient Collects