tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62139731293095162562024-03-13T09:26:51.175-07:00Living Water From an Ancient Wellan emergent ancient future misal, resource and notes of journey with a Celtic heart beatAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802597253297234248noreply@blogger.comBlogger834125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213973129309516256.post-71887646896179967212015-05-01T20:32:00.000-07:002015-05-01T20:32:00.271-07:00Beltane Blessing (6)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="color: #663300; font-size: 130%;">Beltane Blessing</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #993300;">Oh God, bless our <span style="font-size: 130%;">flocks</span> and bearing kine;<br />Hate nor scath let not come near us,<br />Drive from us the ways of the wicked.</span><br />
<span style="color: #993300;">Keep thine eye every Monday and Tuesday<br />On the bearing kine and the pairing queys;<br />Accompany us from hill to sea,<br />Gather thyself the sheep and their progeny.</span><br />
<span style="color: #993300;">Every Wednesday and Thursday be with them,<br />Be thy gracious hand always about them;<br />Tend the cows down to their stalls,<br />Tend the sheep down to their folds!</span><br />
<span style="color: #993300;">Every Friday be thou, O Saint, at their head,<br />Lead the sheep from the face of the bens,<br />With their innocent little lambs following them,<br />Encompass them with God's encompassing.</span><br />
<span style="color: #993300;">Every Saturday be likewise with them,<br />Bring the goats in with their young,<br />Every kid and goat to the sea side,<br />And from the Rock of Aegir on high,</span><span style="color: #993300;">With cresses green about its summit.</span><br />
<span style="color: #993300;">The strength of the Triune be our shield in distress,<br />The strength of Christ, His peace and His Pasch,<br />The strength of the Spirit, Physician of health,<br />And of every other saint who succeeded them<br />And who earned the repose of the kingdom of God.</span><br />
<span style="color: #993300;">Bless ourselves and our children,<br />Bless every one who shall come from our loins,<br />Bless him whose name we bear,<br />Bless, O God, her from whose womb we came.</span><br />
<span style="color: #993300;">Every holiness, blessing and power,<br />Be yielded to us every time and every hour,<br />In name of the Holy Threefold above,<br />Father, Son, and Spirit everlasting.</span><br />
<span style="color: #993300;">Be the Cross of Christ to shield us downward,<br />Be the Cross of Christ to shield us upward,<br />Be the Cross of Christ to shield us roundward,<br />Accepting our Beltane blessing from us,<br />Accepting our Beltane blessing from us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 78%;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Carmina-Gadelica-Incantations-Alexander-Carmichael/dp/0940262509" wrc-processed="true">Collected</a><span class="wrc13" onmouseout="cancel = false; window.setTimeout(WRCHideContent, 1000); clearTimeout(showTimer);" onmouseover=" var self = this; showTimer = window.setTimeout(function(){WRCShowContent({'rating':{'value':94,'weight':100},'flags':{'shopping':1},'single':false,'ttl':7200,'expireTime':'20140403104327'}, self.className)},600);" style="height: 16px; padding-right: 16px; width: 16px;"></span><span class="wrc13" onmouseout="cancel = false; window.setTimeout(WRCHideContent, 1000); clearTimeout(showTimer);" onmouseover=" var self = this; showTimer = window.setTimeout(function(){WRCShowContent({'rating':{'value':94,'weight':100},'flags':{'shopping':1},'single':false,'ttl':7200,'expireTime':'20130511194312'}, self.className)},600);" style="height: 16px; padding-right: 16px; width: 16px;"></span><span class="wrc13" onmouseout="cancel = false; window.setTimeout(WRCHideContent, 1000); clearTimeout(showTimer);" onmouseover=" var self = this; showTimer = window.setTimeout(function(){WRCShowContent({'rating':{'value':94,'weight':100},'flags':{'shopping':1},'single':false,'ttl':7200,'expireTime':'20130511194312'}, self.className)},600);" style="height: 16px; padding-right: 16px; width: 16px;"></span> in the Highlands of Scotland and<br />Translated by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Carmichael" wrc-processed="true">Alexander Carmichael </a><span class="wrc0" onmouseout="cancel = false; window.setTimeout(WRCHideContent, 1000); clearTimeout(showTimer);" onmouseover=" var self = this; showTimer = window.setTimeout(function(){WRCShowContent({'rating':{'value':-1,'weight':-1},'flags':{'shopping':null,'social':null,'news':null,'it':null,'corporate':null,'pornography':null,'violence':null,'gambling':null,'drugs':null,'illegal':null},'single':true,'ttl':null}, self.className)},600);" style="height: 16px; padding-right: 16px; 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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802597253297234248noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213973129309516256.post-67546231518897830032015-04-24T18:27:00.000-07:002015-04-24T18:27:00.225-07:00Good Friday, Great Friday (6)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>O my all-merciful God and Lord,<br />
Jesus Christ, full of pity:<br />
Through Your great love You came down<br />
and became incarnate in order to save everyone.<br />
O Savior, I ask You to save me by Your grace!<br />
If You save anyone because of their works,<br />
that would not be grace but only reward of duty,<br />
but You are compassionate and full of mercy!<br />
You said, O my Christ,<br />
"Whoever believes in Me shall live and never die."<br />
If then, faith in You saves the lost, then save me,<br />
O my God and Creator, for I believe.<br />
Let faith and not my unworthy works be counted to me, O my God,<br />
for You will find no works which could account me righteous.<br />
O Lord, from now on let me love You as intensely as I have loved sin,<br />
and work for You as hard as I once worked for the evil one.<br />
I promise that I will work to do Your will,<br />
my Lord and God, Jesus Christ, all the days of my life and forever more.<br />
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<i>Prayer of St. John Chrysostom</i><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802597253297234248noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213973129309516256.post-46171137620180043132015-04-15T08:20:00.000-07:002015-04-15T08:20:00.892-07:00A W Tozer (1897-1963)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #993300;">Born on a small farming in western
Pennsylvania, Tozer became a follower of Christ as a teenager in Akron,
Ohio while listening to a street preacher.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #993300;">Five
years after his conversion, and without formal theological training, He accepted his first pastorate, a small storefront church in Nutter
Fort, West Virginia. This began 44 years of ministry in association with
the Christian and Missionary Alliance. Tozer served as pastor for 30
years at South side Alliance Church, in Chicago (1928 to 1959. The final
years of his life were spent in Toronto Canada as Pastor of the Avenue
Road Christian and Missionary Alliance Church.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #993300;">Along
with being editor of the Alliance Weekly magazine Tozer penned more
than 40 books. At least two of which are considered Christian classics:
The Pursuit of God and The Knowledge of the Holy. His books impress on
the reader the possibility and necessity for a deeper relationship with
God. He has become a protestant connection to the rich stream of
Christian Mysticism and a spiritual mentor to many.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #993300;">Tozer
and his wife Ada Cecelia Pfautz had seven children, six boys and one
girl. Living a simple and non-materialistic lifestyle they never owned a
car and preferring bus and train travel. Tozer gained notoriety as a
writer and speaker yet He signed away most of his royalties to the poor.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #993300;">He is buried in Ellet Cemetery, Akron, Ohio. A simple epitaph marking his grave: "A. W. Tozer - A Man of God."</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802597253297234248noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213973129309516256.post-34295653356963292862015-04-13T17:48:00.000-07:002015-04-13T17:48:00.806-07:00Holy Thursday<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>Is this a holy thing to see</i><br />
<i>In a rich and fruitful land,</i><br />
<i>Babes reduced to misery,</i><br />
<i>Fed with cold and usurous hand?</i><br />
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<i>Is that trembling cry a song?</i><br />
<i>Can it be a song of joy?</i><br />
<i>And so many children poor?</i><br />
<i>It is a land of poverty!</i><br />
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<i>And their sun does never shine,</i><br />
<i>And their fields are bleak and bare,</i><br />
<i>And their ways are filled with thorns:</i><br />
<i>It is eternal winter there.</i><br />
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<i>For where'er the sun does shine,</i><br />
<i>And where'er the rain does fall,</i><br />
<i>Babes should never hunger there,</i><br />
<i>Nor poverty the mind appall.</i><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802597253297234248noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213973129309516256.post-65126217841791458372015-03-24T07:03:00.000-07:002015-03-24T07:03:00.252-07:00Cuthbert of Lindisfarne (634-687)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: #783f04;"> <span class="H_body_text"><i>HOW CUTHBERT WAS RECOVERED FROM SICKNESS, AND BOISIL,
ON HIS DEATH-BED, FORETOLD TO HIM HIS FUTURE FORTUNES</i>
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<span style="color: #783f04;">MEANWHILE, as every thing in this world is frail and fluctuating,
like the sea when a storm comes on, the above-named Abbot Eata,
with Cuthbert and the other brethren, were expelled from their
residence, and the monastery given to others. But our worthy champion
of Christ did not by reason of his change of place relax his zeal
in carrying on the spiritual conflict which he had undertaken;
but he attended, as he had ever done, to the precepts and example
of the blessed Boisil. About this time, according to his friend
Herefrid the priest, who was formerly abbot of the monastery of
Lindisfarne, he was seized with a pestilential disease, of which
many inhabitants of Britain were at that time sick. The brethren
of the monastery passed the whole night in prayer for his life
and health; for they thought it essential to them that so pious
a man should be present with them in the flesh. They did this
without his knowing it; and when they told him of it in the morning,
he exclaimed, " Then why am I lying here ? I did not think
it possible that God should have neglected your prayers: give
me my stick and shoes." Accordingly, he got out of bed, and
tried to walk, leaning on his stick; and finding his strength
gradually return, he was speedily restored to health: but because
the swelling on his thigh, though it died away to all outward
appearances, struck into his inwards, he felt a little pain in
his inside all his life afterwards; so that, as we find it expressed
in the Apostles, " his strength was perfected in weakness." </span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04;"><span class="H_body_text">When that servant of the Lord, Boisil, saw that Cuthbert was restored,
he said, " You see, my brother, how you have recovered from
your disease, and I assure you it will give you no further trouble,
nor are you likely to die at present. I advise you, inasmuch as
death is waiting for me, to learn from me all you can whilst I
am able to teach you; for I have only seven days longer to enjoy
my health of body, or to exercise the powers of my tongue."
Cuthbert, implicitly believing what he heard, asked him what he
would advise him to begin to read, so as to be able to finish
it in seven days. "John the Evangelist," said Boisil.
"I have a copy containing seven quarto sheets: we can, with
God's help, read one every day, and meditate thereon as far as
we are able. " They did so accordingly, and speedily accomplished
the task; for they sought therein only that simple faith which
operates by love, and did not trouble themselves with minute and
subtle questions. After their seven days' study was completed,
Boisil died of the above-named complaint; and after death entered
into the joys of eternal life. They say that, during these seven
days, he foretold to Cuthbert every thing which should happen
to him: for, as I have said before, he was a prophet and a man
of remarkable piety. And, moreover, he had three years ago foretold
to Abbot Eata, that this pestilence would come, and that he himself
would die of it; but that the abbot should die of another disease,
which the physicians call dysentery; and in this also he was a
true prophet, as the event proved. Among others, he told Cuthbert
that he should be ordained bishop. When Cuthbert became an anchorite,
he would not communicate this prophecy to any one, but with much
sorrow assured the brethren who came to visit him, that if he
had a humble residence on a rock, where the waves of the ocean
shut him out from all the world, he should not even then consider
himself safe from its snares, but should be afraid that on some
occasion or other he might fall victim to the love of riches. </span></span><br />
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<span class="H_Title">from Bede's : The Life and Miracles of St. Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindesfarne</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802597253297234248noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213973129309516256.post-78625360011341927962015-03-02T20:58:00.000-08:002015-03-02T20:58:00.692-08:00Ash Wednesday<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In the Western Christian calendar, Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent
and occurs forty-six days (forty days not counting Sundays) before Easter.
It is a moveable feast, falling on a different date each year because
it is dependent on the date of Easter. It can occur as early as 4 February
or as late as 10 March.<br />
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<b><i>A Liturgy for Ash Wednesday</i></b><br />
(Use all or part, add hymns, readings etc as you see fit)<br />
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<i><b>Opening Prayer</b></i><br />
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Give thanks to the Lord of all creation<br />
<b>ALL: His love endures forever</b><br />
Into your presence we come,<br />
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in a busy world<br />
that demands our attention<br />
Breathe on us now<br />
that we might know your presence<br />
and your power<br />
to see this day though<br />
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<i><b>A reading from psalm 51 for three voices</b></i><br />
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<i><b>Confession and Forgiveness</b></i><br />
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In the blazing light of your love<br />
our short comings are illuminated<br />
our failure to give <br />
our failure to love<br />
our failure to serve<br />
our failure to forgive <br />
our failure to be the people<br />
you would have us be.<br />
Forgive us and renew us.<br />
You know our nature<br />
know our failings<br />
Enfold us in your arms<br />
that we might daily know<br />
your forgiveness and healing love.<br />
The Lord is full of compassion and mercy, slow to anger and of great
kindness. Psalm 103.8<br />
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<i><b>The Lord’s Prayer</b></i><br />
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We say together the words of the Lord's Prayer.<br />
All: Our Father…<br />
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<b>Reading</b> - Matthew 6:1-21<br />
Lord, grant us simplicity of faith<br />
And a generosity of service<br />
That gives without counting cost<br />
A life overflowing with Grace<br />
Poured out from the One<br />
Who gave everything<br />
That we might show<br />
The power of love<br />
To a broken world<br />
And share the truth<br />
From a living Word<br />
Lord, grant us simplicity of faith<br />
And a yearning to share it <br />
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<i><b>Affirmation </b><br />
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May we know the love of the heavenly Father deep in our hearts<br />
May we understand our significance in the centre of His family, <br />
May we know the ever present Spirit <br />
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May we understand the lengths that He was prepared to go for all mankind<br />
and freely respond in the Today which he has given for us to cherish.<br />
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<b>All: Amen</b><br />
Let us bless the Lord.<br />
<b>ALL: Thanks be to the three fold friendship of the living god </b><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802597253297234248noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213973129309516256.post-36010472239582570592015-01-25T20:18:00.000-08:002015-01-25T20:18:00.210-08:00Henry Suso (c. 1300 - 1366)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<i>Bl. Henry Suso (c. 1300 - 1366) studied theology
under Meister Eckhart in Cologne. But Eckhart was more than a teacher
to him: there is a touching account in Suso's autobiography of how he
went to Eckhart when his hypersensitive conscience was tormenting him,
and how Eckhart gave him complete peace. He entered the Dominican
Order in his native Constance. Some years later he had a profound
religious experience which he described in great detail. It was the
beginning of a great love story, told with impressive literary skill in
the tender language of courtly love. 'Eternal Wisdom [a feminine noun
in German, as in most languages with noun-gender] offers herself in
the Holy Scriptures very affectionately, as a fair beloved who adorns
herself beautifully in order to be well pleasing to all men, speaking
gently in the guise of a woman, in order to incline all hearts to
herself.' <br />
The language of chivalry, parodied in a later century in Don
Quixote, was still viable in Suso's century. 'Your young unruly
heart,' he said to himself, 'can scarcely endure to be without a
special object of love.' So he often 'meditated about her, thinking of
her lovingly, and liking her full well with all his heart and soul.'
The mediaeval knight delighted to suffer for the lady he worshipped. <br />
Two of his books are written as dialogue, a favourite literary
form in the 14th century. The dialogue is between himself ('the
disciple') and God ('Eternal Truth', which, like 'Eternal Wisdom', is a
feminine noun). The theme is the death of the ego. </i>
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<i> <img src="http://goodnews.ie/images/leftInvertedCommas.jpg" height="44" width="43" /> Disciple: </i> Lord, what is true detachment? <br />
<i>Truth</i>: Take note with careful discrimination of these two words: <i>oneself</i> and <i>leave</i>.
If you know how to weigh these two words properly, testing their
meaning thoroughly to their core and viewing them with true discernment,
then you can quickly grasp the truth. <br />
Take, first of all, the first <i>word</i> -- <i>oneself</i> or <i>myself</i> -- and see what it is. It is important to realise that everyone has five kinds of <i>self</i>.
The first self we have in common with a stone, and this is being. The
second we share with plants, and this is growing. The third self we
share with animals, and this is sensation. The fourth we share with
all other human beings: we possess a common human nature in which all
are one. The fifth - which belongs to a person exclusively as his or
her own - is one's individual human self… <br />
Now what is it that leads people astray and robs them of
happiness? It is exclusively this last self. Because of it a person
turns outward, away from God and toward this <i>self</i>, when he or
she should be returning inward. Thus they fashion their own selves
according to what is accidental. In their blindness they appropriate
to themselves what is God's. This is the direction they take, and they
eventually sink into sinfulness…. <br />
Disciple: The truth be praised! Dear Lord, tell me, does
anything (of this self) still remain in the happy, detached person? <br />
Truth: Without a doubt it happens that, when the good and loyal
servant is led into the joy of his Lord, he becomes drunk from the
limitless overabundance of God's house. What happens to a drunken man
happens to him, though it cannot really be described, that he so
forgets his self that he is not at all his self and consequently has
got rid of his self completely and lost himself entirely in God,
becoming one spirit in all ways with him, just as a small drop of
water does which has been dropped into a large amount of wine. Just as
the drop of water loses itself, drawing the taste and colour of the
wine to and into itself, so it happens that those who are in full
possession of blessedness lose all human desires in an inexpressible
manner, and they ebb away from themselves and are immersed completely
in the divine will. Otherwise, if something of the individual were to
remain of which he or she were not completely emptied, scripture could
not be true in stating that God shall become all things in all
things. Certainly one's being remains, but in a different form, in a
different resplendence, and in a different power. This is all the
result of total detachment from self. <img align="middle" src="http://goodnews.ie/images/rightinvert.jpg" height="44" hspace="0" vspace="0" width="43" /></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802597253297234248noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213973129309516256.post-77473805715963901362015-01-01T19:46:00.000-08:002015-01-01T19:46:00.200-08:00New Years chalking<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
On Epiphany (or New Year) you can bless your house. You can make this
as simple or as intricate as you like; include (liturgical) greeting
(eg. “The Lord be with you…”), song or carol, holy water (sprinkling
door, each room), reading (eg. Epiphany Gospel, start of John’s Gospel),
more prayers, Lord’s Prayer, incense, assigning parts to different
members of the household, collect for Epiphany. Many homes are the
dwelling for one person – the blessing of a home is equally appropriate.
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<a href="http://www.liturgy.co.nz/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/chalklintel.jpg" wrc-processed="true"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-4931" height="146" src="http://www.liturgy.co.nz/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/chalklintel.jpg" title="chalklintel" width="200" /></a><span class="wrc0" onmouseout="cancel = false; window.setTimeout(WRCHideContent, 1000); clearTimeout(showTimer);" onmouseover=" var self = this; showTimer = window.setTimeout(function(){WRCShowContent({'rating':{},'flags':{},'single':true,'ttl':7200,'expireTime':'20131201002408'}, self.className)},600);" style="height: 16px; padding-right: 16px; width: 16px;"></span><em>Take (blessed) chalk (of any colour) and mark on the lintel of your front door 20 + C + M + B + 11 saying:</em><br />
The three Wise Men,<br />
C Caspar,<br />
M Melchior,<br />
B and Balthasar followed the star of God’s Son who became human<br />
20 two thousand<br />
11 and eleven years ago.<br />
++ May Christ bless our home<br />
++ and remain with us throughout the new year. Amen.<br />
God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides
in them. Christ, God’s incarnation, is present in the love and care we
manifest to each other in our ordinary daily lives together. <br />
<em>Other possible prayers:</em><br />
May all who come to our home this year rejoice to find Christ living
among us; and may we seek and serve, in everyone we meet, that same
Jesus who is your incarnate Word, now and forever. Amen.<br />
God of heaven and earth, you revealed your only-begotten One to every
nation by the guidance of a star. Bless this house and all who inhabit
it. Fill us with the light of Christ, that our concern for others may
reflect your love. We ask this through Christ our Saviour. Amen.<br />
Loving God, bless this household. May we be blessed with health,
goodness of heart, gentleness, and abiding in your will. We ask this
through Christ our Saviour. Amen.<br />
It is in the home that the first experience of love
occurs; it is there that love is nurtured and grows to maturity. The
Christian home is also the ground for much of people’s spiritual growth.<br />
The ministry of Jesus occurs in many different homes. Therefore to
hallow the home as an environment for nurture and renewal, is a deeply
felt need by many Christian households.<br />
The blessing of a home encourages Christians to dedicate their life at home to God and to others.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802597253297234248noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213973129309516256.post-12346736568080122012014-12-31T19:44:00.000-08:002014-12-31T19:44:00.706-08:00Celtic New Year Blessing<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i><span style="color: #20124d;">May the light of your soul guide you.
<br />May the light of your soul bless the work you do with the secret love and warmth in your heart.
<br />May you see in what you do the beauty of your own soul.
<br />May the sacredness of your work bring healing, light, and renewal to
those who work with you and to those who see and receive your work.
<br />May your work never weary you.
<br />May it release within you wellsprings of refreshment, inspiration, and excitement.
<br />May you be present in what you do.
<br />May you never become lost in the bland absences.
<br />May the day never burden.
<br />May dawn find you awake and alert, approaching your new day with dreams, possibilities, and promises.
<br />May evening find you gracious and fulfilled.
<br />May you go into the night blessed, sheltered, and protected.
<br />May your soul calm, console, and renew you.
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<span style="color: #20124d;">- John O'Donohue
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802597253297234248noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213973129309516256.post-28453763952035708192014-12-31T12:31:00.000-08:002014-12-31T12:31:00.537-08:00New Years (8)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The Olde Year Now Away is Fled</h2>
(sung to Greensleeves) 13th Century English<br /> Translation By Lawrence Rosenwald<br />
The olde year now away is fled,<br /> The new year it is entered<br /> Then let us now our sins downtread<br /> And joyfully all appear<br /> Let's be merry this holiday<br /> And let us run with sport and play<br /> Han sorrow, let's cast care away - <br /> God send you a happy new year<br />
Come, give us more liquor when I do call<br /> I'll drink to each one in this hall<br /> I hope that so loud I must not bawl<br /> But unto me lend me an ear<br /> Good fortune to my master send<br /> And to my dame which is our friend<br /> God bless us all, and so I end<br /> And God send us a happy new year</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802597253297234248noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213973129309516256.post-64759297707785299132014-12-28T20:55:00.000-08:002014-12-28T20:55:00.077-08:00Francis de Sales 1567 1622<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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“It is love that gives value to all our works; it is not by the
greatness or multiplicity of our works that we please God, but by the
love with which we do them.”<br />
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“We have to do everything for love, not out of force.”<br />
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“All the good we do, we do for love of God, and the evil we avoid, we avoid for love of God.”<br />
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“Nothing else purifies the intellect of ignorance and the will of depraved affections better than prayer.”<br />
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“The true and solid devotion consists in the constant will, resolve, promptness and activeness to execute what is pleasing to God.”<br />
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“If your eye is simple all of your body will be too.”<br />
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“Let us not lower our eyes without humiliating at the same time the heart; let not others think we want the last place without truly desiring it.”<br />
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“Humility perfects us in what concerns God, and meekness in what concerns our neighbor.”<br />
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“We have to allow our minds to be pierced by the thorns of difficulties,
and allow our hearts to be pierced by the lance of contradiction; to
drink of the bitterness and swallow the vinegar, if this is God’s will.”<br />
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“We should perform all our actions by the obligation we owe them or by
the simple acceptance of God’s will, and this is to be in calm or in
storm.”<br />
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“Know that the virtue of patience is what assures us the most perfection.”<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802597253297234248noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213973129309516256.post-35858494082557304452014-12-26T12:28:00.000-08:002014-12-26T12:28:00.064-08:00St Stephens Day (2)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The Wren Song</h2>
(sung on St <a href="http://www.celticchristmasmusic.com/christmas-traditions/st-stephen-s-day-in-ireland-hunting-wren.htm" target="_blank" wrc-processed="true">Stephen's Day, Dec. 26th</a><span class="wrc0" onmouseout="cancel = false; window.setTimeout(WRCHideContent, 1000); clearTimeout(showTimer);" onmouseover=" var self = this; showTimer = window.setTimeout(function(){WRCShowContent({'rating':{},'flags':{},'single':true,'ttl':7200,'expireTime':'20131203115419'}, self.className)},600);" style="height: 16px; padding-right: 16px; width: 16px;"></span>)<br />
The Wren, the Wren the king of all birds,<br /> St. Stephenses day, he was caught in the furze.<br /> Although he is little, his honor is great,<br /> Rise up, kind sir, and give us a trate.<br />
<br /> We followed this Wren ten miles or more <br /> Through hedges and ditches and heaps of snow,<br /> We up with our wattles and gave him a fall<br /> And brought him here to show you all.<br />
<br /> For we are the boys that came your way <br /> To bury the Wren on Saint Stephenses Day,<br /> So up with the kettle and down with the pan!<br /> Give us some help for to bury the Wren!</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802597253297234248noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213973129309516256.post-8067615188743867582014-12-25T09:00:00.000-08:002014-12-25T09:00:02.454-08:00Christnsmas Day (7)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>Behold a new and wondrous mystery. My ears resound to the Shepherd’s song, piping no soft melody, but chanting full forth a heavenly hymn. The Angels sing. The Archangels blend their voice in harmony. The Cherubim hymn their joyful praise. The Seraphim exalt His glory. All join to praise this holy feast, beholding the Godhead here on earth, and man in heaven. He Who is above, now for our redemption dwells here below; and he that was lowly is by divine mercy raised.</i></div>
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<i>Bethlehem this day resembles heaven; hearing from the stars the singing of angelic voices; and in place of the sun, enfolds within itself on every side, the Sun of justice. And ask not how: for where God wills, the order of nature yields. For He willed; He had the power; He descended; He redeemed; all things yielded in obedience to God. This day He Who is, is Born; and He Who is, becomes what He was not. For when He was God, He became man; yet not departing from the Godhead that is His. Nor yet by any loss of divinity became He man, nor through increase became He God from man; but being the Word He became flesh, His nature, because of impassibility, remaining unchanged.</i></div>
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<i>Since this heavenly birth cannot be described, neither does His coming amongst us in these days permit of too curious scrutiny. Though I know that a Virgin this day gave birth, and I believe that God was begotten before all time, yet the manner of this generation I have learned to venerate in silence and I accept that this is not to be probed too curiously with wordy speech. </i></div>
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<i>Nature here rested, while the Will of God labored. O ineffable grace! The Only Begotten, Who is before all ages, Who cannot be touched or be perceived, Who is simple, without body, has now put on my body, that is visible and liable to corruption. For what reason? That coming amongst us he may teach us, and teaching, lead us by the hand to the things that men cannot see. For since men believe that the eyes are more trustworthy than the ears, they doubt of that which they do not see, and so He has deigned to show Himself in bodily presence, that He may remove all doubt.</i></div>
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<i>What shall I say! And how shall I describe this Birth to you? For this wonder fills me with astonishment. The Ancient of days has become an infant. He Who sits upon the sublime and heavenly Throne, now lies in a manger. And He Who cannot be touched, Who is simple, without complexity, and incorporeal, now lies subject to the hands of men. He Who has broken the bonds of sinners, is now bound by an infants bands. But He has decreed that ignominy shall become honor, infamy be clothed with glory, and total humiliation the measure of His Goodness. </i></div>
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<i>Come, then, let us observe the Feast. Truly wondrous is the whole chronicle of the Nativity. For this day the ancient slavery is ended, the devil confounded, the demons take to flight, the power of death is broken, paradise is unlocked, the curse is taken away, sin is removed from us, error driven out, truth has been brought back, the speech of kindliness diffused, and spreads on every side, a heavenly way of life has been ¡in planted on the earth, angels communicate with men without fear, and men now hold speech with angels. </i></div>
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<i>Why is this? Because God is now on earth, and man in heaven; on every side all things commingle. He became Flesh. He did not become God. He was God. Wherefore He became flesh, so that He Whom heaven did not contain, a manger would this day receive. He was placed in a manger, so that He, by whom all things arc nourished, may receive an infant¢s food from His Virgin Mother. So, the Father of all ages, as an infant at the breast, nestles in the virginal arms, that the Magi may more easily see Him. Since this day the Magi too have come, and made a beginning of withstanding tyranny; and the heavens give glory, as the Lord is revealed by a star.</i></div>
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<em>The darkest midnight in December<br /> No snow nor hail nor winter storm<br /> Shall hinder us for to remember<br /> The Babe that on this night was born.<br /> With shepherds, we are come to see<br /> This lovely Infant's glorious charms.<br /> Born of a Maid, as the prophet said,<br /> </em><br />
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<em>Ye blessed angels join our voices<br /> Let your gilded wings beat fluttering o'er<br /> While every sould set free rejoices<br /> And everyone now must adore.<br /> We'll sing and pray that he always may<br /> Good people one and all defend<br /> God grant us grace in all our days<br /> A merry Christmas and a happy end.</em></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802597253297234248noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213973129309516256.post-9058735692376484532014-12-24T00:50:00.000-08:002014-12-24T00:50:00.187-08:00Voices in the Mist<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The time draws near the birth of Christ:
The moon is hid; the night is still;
The Christmas bells from hill to hill
Answer each other in the mist.
Four voices of four hamlets round,
From far and near, on mead and moor,
Swell out and fail, as if a door
Were shut between me and the sound:
Each voice four changes on the wind,
That now dilate, and now decrease,
Peace and goodwill, goodwill and peace,
Peace and goodwill, to all mankind.</pre>
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<pre>graphic: Martin Luther's family on Christmas eve </pre>
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CHRISTMAS CHANT</h3>
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HOIRE! hoire! beannaicht e! beannaicht e!<br /> Hoire! hoire! beannaicht e! beannaicht e!<br /> Ho! hi! beannaicht an Righ!<br /> Ho! hi! biodh aoibh.<br />
Buaidh biodh air an tulaich seo,<br /> Na chualas leibh ’s na chunnas leibh,<br /> Air na leaca loma loinnear lair,<br /> ’S air na clacha corrach cuimir clair,<br /> Hoire! hoire! beannaicht e! beannaicht e!<br />
Beannaich an taigh ’s na bheil ann,<br /> Eadar chuaill is chlach is chrann<br /> Imir do Dhia eadar bhrat is aodach,<br /> Slainte dhaoine gun robh ann,<br /> Hoire! hoire! beannaicht e! beannaicht e!<br />
Gu mu buan mu’n tulach sibh,<br /> Gu mu slan mu’n teallach sibh,<br /> Gu mu liuth dul ’s ceann sguilb ’s an aros,<br /> Daoine tamh ’s a bhunntair,<br /> Hoire! hoire! beannaicht e! beannaicht e!<br />
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HAIL King! hail King! blessed is He! blessed is He!<br /> Hail King! hail King! blessed is He! blessed is He!<br /> Ho, hail! blessed the King!<br /> Ho, hi! let there be joy!<br />
Prosperity be upon this dwelling,<br /> On all that ye have heard and seen,<br /> On the bare bright floor flags,<br /> On the shapely standing stone staves,<br /> Hail King! hail King! blessed is He! blessed is He!<br />
Bless this house and all that it contains,<br /> From rafter and stone and beam;<br /> Deliver it to God from pall to cover,<br /> Be the healing of men therein,<br /> Hail King! hail King! blessed is He! blessed is He!<br />
Be ye in lasting possession of the house,<br /> Be ye healthy about the hearth,<br /> Many be the ties and stakes in the homestead,<br /> People dwelling on this foundation,<br /> Hail King! hail King! blessed is He! blessed is He!<br />
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Iobair dh ’an Ti eadar bhonn agus bhrat,<br /> Eadar chuaill agus chlach agus chrann;<br /> Iobair a ris eadar shlat agus aodach,<br /> Slanadh shaoghal a dhaoine th’ ann,<br /> Hoire! hoire! beannaicht e! beannaicht e!<br /> Hoire! hoire! beannaicht e! beannaicht e!<br /> Ho, hi, beannaicht an Righ,<br /> Ho, hi, biodh aoibh!<br />
Beannaicht an Righ,<br /> Gun tus gun chrich,<br /> Gu suth, gu sior,<br /> Gach linn gu brath,<br /> Ho! hi! biodh aoibh!<br />
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Offer to the Being from found to cover,<br /> Include stave and stone and beam;<br /> Offer again both rods and cloth,<br /> Be health to the people therein,<br /> Hail King! hail King! blessed is He! blessed is He!<br /> Hail King! hail King! blessed is He! blessed is He!<br /> Ho, hail! blessed the King!<br /> Let there be joy!<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802597253297234248noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213973129309516256.post-53296053374549395282014-11-18T21:15:00.000-08:002014-11-18T21:15:00.237-08:00Advent evening Hymn<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Come, Sun and Savior, to embrace Our gloomy world,<br />its weary race,<br />As groom to bride, as bride to groom:<br />The wedding chamber, Mary's womb.<br />At your great Name, O Jesus, now<br />All knees must bend, all hearts must bow;<br />All things on earth with one accord,<br />Like those in heaven, shall call you Lord.<br />Come in your holy might, we pray,<br />Redeem us for eternal day;<br />Defend us while we dwell below,<br />From all assaults of our dread foe.<br /><br /><br />Advent Evening Hymn (8th Century)<br /></div>
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We do not know where Hilda was born, but we learn from Bede that her birth took place in the year 614. She was the second daughter of Hereric, great nephew of King Edwin of Northumbria, and his wife Breguswith. Her elder sister Hereswith, married the King of East Anglia. Hilda’s noble status is important in understanding her, but it did not mean she had an easy life.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802597253297234248noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213973129309516256.post-76097168711574592822014-11-01T00:19:00.000-07:002014-11-01T00:19:00.679-07:00All Saints Day (5)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Lord, have mercy on us. (Lord have mercy on us)</div>
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Christ, have mercy on us. (Christ have mercy on us)</div>
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Lord, have mercy on us. (Lord, have mercy on us)<br />
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Christ, hear us. (Christ, hear us)</div>
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Christ, graciously hear us. (Christ, graciously hear us)<br />
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God the Father of heaven, (have mercy on us)</div>
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God the Son, Redeemer of the world, (have mercy on us)</div>
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God the Holy Spirit, (have mercy on us.)</div>
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Holy Trinity, Blessed Three fold Friendship of the Living God, (have mercy on us)</div>
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Holy Mary, Holy Mother of God, (pray for us*)</div>
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St. Michael, St. Gabriel,St.</div>
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All you holy Angels and Archangels,</div>
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St. John the Baptist,St. Joseph,</div>
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All you holy Patriarchs and Prophets and Apostles,</div>
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,All you holy Martyrs,</div>
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All you holy Bishops and Confessors,</div>
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All you holy Doctors,</div>
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All you holy Priests and Levites,</div>
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All you holy Monks and Hermits,</div>
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St. Mary Magdalen,St. Agatha,St. Lucy,St. Agnes,St. Cecilia,St. Catherine,St. Anastasia,All you holy Virgins and Widows,<br />
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All you holy Saints of God, (make intercession for us.)</div>
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Be merciful, (spare us, O Lord.)</div>
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Be merciful, (graciously hear us, O Lord.)</div>
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From all evil, O Lord (deliver us*)</div>
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From all sin, </div>
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From anger, and hatred, and every evil will,</div>
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Through Your Coming,</div>
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Through Your Cross and Passion,</div>
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Through Your Death Burial and Resurrection,</div>
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Through the coming of the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete.</div>
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In the day of judgment .(We implore you to hear us*)<br />
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That You would spare us, That You would pardon us,<br />
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That You would bring us to true penance,<br />
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That You would vouchsafe to govern and preserve Your holy Church,<br />
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That You would vouchsafe to preserve our Apostolic Prelate,and all orders of the Church in holy religion,<br />
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That You would vouchsafe to humble the enemies of holy Church,<br />
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That You would vouchsafe to give peace and true concord to Christian kings and princes,<br />
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That You would vouchsafe to grant peace and unity to the whole Christian world,<br />
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That You would call back to the unity of the Church all who havestrayed from her fold, and to guide all unbelievers into the light of the Gospel,<br />
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That You would deliver our souls, and the souls of our brethren,relations, and benefactors, from eternal damnation,<br />
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That You would vouchsafe to give and preserve the fruits of the earth,<br />
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That You would vouchsafe to grant eternal rest to all the faithful departed,<br />
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That You would vouchsafe graciously to hear us,Son of God,<br />
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Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, (spare us, O Lord.)<br />
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Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, (graciously hear us, O Lord.)<br />
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Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, (have mercy on us.)<br />
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Christ, (hear us)<br />
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Lord, have mercy, (Lord have mercy)<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802597253297234248noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213973129309516256.post-51856118974358618322014-10-10T10:49:00.000-07:002014-10-10T10:49:00.956-07:00teresea of Avlia <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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is it God, that you have given me this hectic busy life when I have so
little time to enjoy your presence? Throughout the day people are
waiting to speak with me, and even at meals I have to continue talking
to people about their needs and problems. During sleep itself I am still
thinking and dreaming about the multitude of concerns that surround me.
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me my present pattern of life is a torment; I only hope that for you it
is truly a sacrifice of love. I know that you are constantly beside me,
yet I am usually so busy that I ignore you. If you want me to remain so
busy, please force me to think about and love you even in the midst of
such hectic activity. If you do not want me so busy, please release me
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802597253297234248noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213973129309516256.post-22234039507388087962014-09-29T21:29:00.000-07:002014-09-29T21:29:00.290-07:00Richard Rolle 1290, 1349<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802597253297234248noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213973129309516256.post-61864897007003377062014-09-21T01:34:00.000-07:002014-09-21T01:34:00.564-07:00Henri J. M. Nouwen ( 1932 - 1996 )<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<pre><span style="color: #0c343d;">A split between divinity and humanity has taken place in you. With your
divinely endowed centre you know God's will, God's way, God's love.
But your humanity is cut off from that. Your many human needs for
affection, attention, and consolation are living apart from your divine
sacred space. Your call is to let these two parts of yourself come
together again.
You have to move gradually from crying outward - crying out for
people who you think can fulfil your needs - to crying inward to the
place where you can let yourself be held and carried by God, who
has become incarnate in the humanity of those who love you in
community. No one person can fulfil all your needs. But the community
can truly hold you. The community can let you experience the fact that,
beyond your anguish, there are human hands that hold you and show
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802597253297234248noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213973129309516256.post-45427193082968449172014-08-05T00:30:00.000-07:002014-08-05T00:30:00.646-07:00King Oswald (605-42)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #663300;"><i>Lord God almighty, who so kindled the faith of King Oswald with your Spirit that he set up the sign of the cross in his kingdom and turned his people to the light of Christ: grant that we, being fired by the same Spirit, may always bear our cross before the world and be found faithful servants of the gospel; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.</i> </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802597253297234248noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213973129309516256.post-7589704924295893682014-06-28T16:57:00.000-07:002014-06-28T16:57:00.020-07:00IRENAEUS (120-202)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #993300;"><b><span style="color: #330000;"><i><span style="font-size: 85%;">" the greatest way to glorify God is with a life well lived"</span></i></span></b></span><br />
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in Asia Minor, probably Smyrna. He was a disciple of Polycarp who had
been mentored by John the beloved. He studied in Rome then became a
priest at Lyons at the invitation of the Ponthinus the first bishop of
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was sent back to Rome with a message and on his return to Lyons found
that Ponthinus had been killed in the persecution. Irenaeus was made the
new bishop of Gaul. He remained in the West and died there. </span><br />
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and for those Eastern Christians who were threatened with
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Irenaeus also provides the first explicit witness to a four-fold gospel
canon. He was the earliest Father of the Church to systematize the
Christian beliefs that would later they the foundation for orthodox
doctrine. He is frequently cited by later theologians.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #993300;">Only two of his works survive—neither in the original Greek. The five-volume <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0103.htm" wrc-processed="pending">Against Heresies </a><span class="wrc11" onmouseout="cancel = false; window.setTimeout(WRCHideContent, 1000); clearTimeout(showTimer);" onmouseover=" var self = this; showTimer = window.setTimeout(function(){WRCShowContent({'rating':{'value':94,'weight':11},'flags':{},'single':false,'ttl':7200,'expireTime':'20130703090558'}, self.className)},600);" style="height: 16px; padding-right: 16px; width: 16px;"></span><span class="wrc0" onmouseout="cancel = false; window.setTimeout(WRCHideContent, 1000); clearTimeout(showTimer);" onmouseover=" var self = this; showTimer = window.setTimeout(function(){WRCShowContent({'rating':{'value':-1,'weight':-1},'flags':{'shopping':null,'social':null,'news':null,'it':null,'corporate':null,'pornography':null,'violence':null,'gambling':null,'drugs':null,'illegal':null},'single':true,'ttl':null}, self.className)},600);" style="height: 16px; padding-right: 16px; width: 16px;"></span>establishes
Christian doctrine against the Gnostics and incidentally supplies much
of our present information on Gnosticism. And the Epideixix or the <a href="http://www.ccel.org/ccel/irenaeus/demonstr.toc.html" wrc-processed="pending">Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching</a><span class="wrc11" onmouseout="cancel = false; window.setTimeout(WRCHideContent, 1000); clearTimeout(showTimer);" onmouseover=" var self = this; showTimer = window.setTimeout(function(){WRCShowContent({'rating':{'value':98,'weight':17},'flags':{},'single':false,'ttl':7200,'expireTime':'20130703090558'}, self.className)},600);" style="height: 16px; padding-right: 16px; width: 16px;"></span><span class="wrc0" onmouseout="cancel = false; window.setTimeout(WRCHideContent, 1000); clearTimeout(showTimer);" onmouseover=" var self = this; showTimer = window.setTimeout(function(){WRCShowContent({'rating':{'value':-1,'weight':-1},'flags':{'shopping':null,'social':null,'news':null,'it':null,'corporate':null,'pornography':null,'violence':null,'gambling':null,'drugs':null,'illegal':null},'single':true,'ttl':null}, self.className)},600);" style="height: 16px; padding-right: 16px; width: 16px;"></span>, which is a concise exposition of Christian doctrine. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #993300;">He is recognized as a Saint by both the Orthodox and the Roman Catholic Churches. </span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802597253297234248noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213973129309516256.post-27006818572882981662014-06-09T14:04:00.000-07:002014-06-09T14:04:00.490-07:00St. Columba<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Kindle in our hearts, O God,<br />
The flame of that love<br />
which never ceases,<br />
That it may burn in us,<br />
giving light to others.<br />
May we shine forever<br />
in Thy holy temple,<br />
Set on fire with Thy eternal light,<br />
Even Thy son, Jesus Christ,<br />
Our Savior and Redeemer.<br />
<br />
attributed to Columba of Iona</div>
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