Spirituality
Fervent Prayer
From St. John of Kronstadt (My Life in Christ: Part 1, Holy Trinity Monastery pg. 130-131): “Our soul, as a spiritual, active being, cannot remain idle; it either does good or evil, one of the two; either wheat grows in it or tares. But as every good comes from God, and as the means of […]
A Blessing
May the Christ who walks on wounded feet walk with you on the road; May the Christ who serves with wounded hands stretch out your hands to serve; May the Christ who loves with a wounded heart open your hearts in love; When you leave this place may you see the face of Christ in […]
The Waiting Game
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-205 (Devotional) THE WAITING GAME by Rowland Croucher Wait for the Lord; be strong and let your heart take courage; yes, wait for the Lord. For God alone my soul waits in silence, for my hope is from him. It will be said on that day ‘Lo this is our God; we […]
Talking It Through
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-213 (Devotional) —————— TALKING IT THROUGH —————— by Rowland Croucher (ed.) ‘Come now, let us talk this over,’ says Yahweh. ‘Yahweh,’ he said, ‘I have had enough. Take my life; I am no better than my ancestors.’ Then he lay down and went to sleep… But the angel of Yahweh came back […]
The Serenity Prayer
GOD, grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, and the Wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time; Enjoying one moment at a time; Accepting hardship as the pathway to peace. Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, […]
Reflections On The Winter Of The Soul
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-216 (Devotional) REFLECTIONS ON THE WINTER OF THE SOUL (Romans 5:3-5; Acts 9:1-19) by Kim Thoday The journey of discipleship moves a/cross into the vast variety of human terrain. We traverse the high mountains of God’s love and mystery, the vast undulating and sometimes flat distances of God in the ordinary, the […]
Devotional Quotes
I came to love you late, O Beauty so ancient and so new; I came to love you late. You were within me and I was outside, where I rushed about wildly searching for you like some monster loose in your beautiful world. You were with me but I was not with you. You called […]
Three Prayers
Lord, bless and strengthen your people. May they remain faithful to you and always rejoice in your mercy. We ask this in the name of Jesus the Lord. Daily Mass Book, Brisbane, The Liturgical Commission, 1990, p.37. ~~~ The time has come; the kingdom of God is upon us. Let us repent and believe the […]
Fasting
From St. Symeon the New Theologian (The Discourses: XI no. 2, Paulist Press pg. 168): “Fasting gradually disperses and drives away spiritual darkness and the veil of sin that lies on the soul, just as the sun dispels the mist. enables us spiritually to see that spiritual air in which Christ, the Sun who knows […]
God Speaks
If God is love, then let our love speak to us of God. if God is good, then let what is good speak to us of God. If God is joy, then let what fills us with joy speak to us of God. If God is peace, then let what brings peace speak to us […]
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