Collect for Tuesday in Holy Week
O God, by the passion of your blessed Son you made an instrument of shameful death to be for us the means of life: Grant us so to glory in the Cross of Christ, that we may gladly suffer shame…
Peter Preble
Faith • Grief • History • Hope
Peter Preble
Faith • Grief • History • Hope
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Monday of Holy Week
Collect for Holy Monday Almighty God, whose most dear Son went not up to joy but first he suffered pain, and entered not into glory before he was crucified: Mercifully grant that we, walking in the way of the…
Michael Dubruiel – RIP
New has reached us here in the Village that Michael Dubruiel author and husband of fellow blogger Amy Wellborn died suddenly yesterday only a few days after his 50th birthday. Please pray for Michael and Amy and their young family.…
Effort to surmount polarizing debates backfires on pastor
Rick Warren arrives in Washington this week in the midst of the culture war he has spent years trying to transcend. The California pastor, who wrote the best-selling hardcover book in US history and built up from scratch one of…
Prayer for Leaders
I found this prayer online and thought it was great. We should all pray this on January 20th PRAYER FOR LEADERSHIP(On Election Day and Other Times)Joan D. Chittister, OSB Give us, O God,leaders whose hearts are large enoughto match the…
A Jew’s prayer for the children of Gaza
There will never be peace without prayers like this one being answered. Lord, have mercy.Lord who is the creator of all children, hear our prayer this accursed day. God whom we call Blessed, turn your face to these, the children…
Prayer on the First Day of the Year
O Lord our God, who have placed times and season under your own authority; who, in your infinite compassion and goodness, have counted us worthy to enter a New Year of your loving kindness, bless it and keep us in…
The Blessing of the New Year
God, bless to me the new day,Never vouchsafed to me before;It is to bless Thine own presenceThou hast given me this time, O God. Bless Thou to me mine eye,May mine eye bless all it sees;I will bless my neighbor,May…
Loss of Life
For those of you reading who live in the Village with me you know by now that we had a suicide on Monday. A poor distraught man took his own life in the parking lot of the local grocery store.…
Orthodox Daily Prayer
I have begun a new podcast called Orthodox Daily Prayer. I will endeavor to keep it updated daily with Morning and Evening Prayer. This is a condensed version of the prayer cycle of the day as printed in the Orthodox…