I pause for a moment
and think of the love and the grace that God showers on me,
creating me in his image and likeness, making me his temple.
+ Irish Jesuit Prayer; Sacred Space
My soul waits for the Lord
more than those
who watch for the morning
more than those
who watch for the morning
Out of the depths I have cried to You.
O Lord, hear my voice.
With my whole heart I want to praise You.
O Lord, hear my voice.
If you, Lord, should mark iniquities:
Who could stand? Who could stand?
I will wait for the Lord.
My soul waits,
and in His word
do I hope.
+ Celtic Daily Prayer
+ The Crucified Christ; Fra Angelico (1395-1455)
scripture
Old Testament: Numbers 21:4-9
Psalm: Psalm 32
New Testament: Ephesians 2:1-10
Gospel: John 3:14-21
reflection
Forgive me, most gracious Lord and Father, if this day I have done or said anything to increase the pain of the world. Pardon the unkind word, the impatient gesture, the hard and selfish deed, the failure to show sympathy and kindly help where I have had the opportunity, but missed it; and enable me so to live that I may daily do something to lessen the tide of human sorrow, and add to the sum of human happiness.
+ F.B. Meyer (1847-1929)
We need you, how we need you
we need you every hour
to see you in your glory
to know your Spirit's power.
There's healing in your presence
there's mercy where you are
so meet us, won't you meet us, Living God.
No other God but you, no other God but you
No other God can satisfy
You are our great reward
it's you we're longing for
no other God, but you, Most High
+ Brenton Brown, We Need You
Grant, O Lord, that as we are baptized into the death of thy blessed Son our Saviour Jesus Christ, so by continual mortifying our corrupt affections we may be buried with him; and that through the grave and gate of death, we may pass to our joyful resurrection; for his merits, who died and was buried, and rose again for us, thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
+ Book of Common Prayer
close
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit,
as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,
World without end. Amen.
+ Gloria Patri
