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- No one can expect the comfort of heaven who has not taken advantage of a holy sorrow here. If you are to have a contrite heart, enter your room and shut out the world’s distractions (see Is 26:20); as it is written: “Go into your room and reflect on your ways” (Ps 4:4). There in your privacy you will find what is often lost outside.
Thomas à Kempis • The Imitation of Christ: (Original translation as heard on the Hallow App)
Come, thou Holy Spirit,
Send from highest heaven
Radiance of thy light.
Come, Father of the poor,
Come, giver of all gifts,
Come, light of every heart.
Of comforters the best,
Dear guest of every soul,
Refreshment ever sweet.
In our labor, rest,
Coolness in our heat,
Comfort in our grief.
O most blessed light,
Fill the inmost hearts
of thy faithful ones.
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Send from highest heaven
Radiance of thy light.
Come, Father of the poor,
Come, giver of all gifts,
Come, light of every heart.
Of comforters the best,
Dear guest of every soul,
Refreshment ever sweet.
In our labor, rest,
Coolness in our heat,
Comfort in our grief.
O most blessed light,
Fill the inmost hearts
of thy faithful ones.
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The temple was God’s house, the place where he made himself known, instructed his people, and received their worship.
Francis Martin, William M. Wright IV • The Gospel of John
READ the story in Matthew 16:13–20. ANSWER these questions: 1. What is the first question Jesus asked? 2. How did that question set the stage for the conversation that followed? 3. Simon Peter responded to the next question. What did his response reveal to Jesus, and to us, about Peter’s faith? 4. How can we use this story today to begin
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