We have been paying attention to our immeadiate neighbours to the South as they have installed their new president. But today I am looking even further South to Mexico and praying that God would intervene on the spreading violence that increasingly engages the average person seeking to live a fairly righteous life. Last week Joel Kurtzman of the Wall Street Journal sounded the alarm about the instability just lurking around the corner in that country. Would you join me today in praying that God would bring those who love violence to justice and change the hearts of many people to love mercy, act justly, and walk humbly with God?
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remembering boxing day
So I’m in the States for Boxing Day this year…and we are going swimming. But I liked this piece carried by the New York Times on the history behind Boxing Day.
prayer for Advent week 3
Stir up your power, O Lord, and with great might come among us; and, because we are sorely hindered by our sins, let your bountiful grace and mercy speedily help and deliver us; through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom, with you and the Holy Spirit, be honor and glory now and for ever. Amen.
Phyllis Tickle, Christmastide: Prayers for Advent through Epiphany from The Divine Hours
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advent prayer, week 1
Almighty God, give all of us grace to cast away the works of darkness, and put on the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life in which your Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty to judge both the living and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal; through him who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
Phyllis Tickle, Christmastide: Prayers for Advent Through Epiphany from The Divine Hours
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