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The key to knowing the heart of God
I came across a gem of a book called Writings from the Philokalia: On Prayer of the Heart. It is a collection of writings from Fathers of the Eastern Church from about the 4th to the 14th centuries.
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Resurrection
Almighty God, who through your only‑begotten Son Jesus Christ overcame death and opened to us the gate of everlasting life: Grant that we, who celebrate with joy the day of the Lord’s resurrection, may be raised from the death of sin by your life‑giving Spirit; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,…
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What do you think you’re doing?
Through Holy Week I have been meditating daily on Scripture through the Book of Common Prayer. There will be some psalms every day, an Old Testament reading, a New Testament reading, and a Gospel reading. Today, the reading from Jeremiah 17 exploded into my foggy brain.
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Holy Week — cursing the fig tree
The symbolism of the fig tree fits in the story Matthew tells us.
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The last actions of Jesus — Cleansing the Temple
If you had a few days left, what would they look like? What do we see in the life of Christ?
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Prayer declaration
A prayer declaration of LIFE.
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Study war no more
Challenging thoughts from Thomas Merton on “hating war.”
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Prayer for the Day
But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.
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The way of silence
It has become an annual habit of mine to get away in silence and solitude for a few days. It takes days because the first half of the silence is about getting the mind geared down.
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Prayer for return of our focus as the Church
In my reading for Lent, I came to Psalm 82:2-3 2 “How long will you defend the unjust and show partiality to the wicked? 3 Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed.
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