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PRAYER: The Night The Angels Covered Their Ears, a story
From Angels Unawares, by Megan McKenna It was the holiest night of the Jewish Year: Yom Kippur. The Ba’al Shem Tov was on his way to the synagogue to sing the Kol Nidre, the opening prayer. He was...
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LENT: The Memory Of God, by Richard Valantasis
From Centuries of Holiness One way to articulate a goal of human existence comes from a metaphor of the ascetical tradition: the remembrance of God. The concept is relatively simple: our task as...
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POETRY: At The Round Earth’s Imagined Corners, by John Donne
Divine Meditations: VII At the round earth’s imagined corners, blow Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise From death, you numberless infinities Of souls, and to your scattered bodies go, All whom the...
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POETRY: Adventures In New Testament Greek—Metanoia, by Scott Cairns
Repentance, to be sure, But of a species far less likely to oblige sheepish repetition. Repentance, you’ll observe, glibly bears the bent of thought revisited, and mind’s familiar stamp —a quaint,...
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POETRY: Repentance, by George Herbert
Lord, I confess my sin is great; Great is my sin. Oh! gently treat With thy quick flow’r, thy momentany bloom; Whose life still pressing Is one undressing, A steady aiming at a tomb. Man’s age is two...
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APOSTLES: Peter And Paul As Preachers Of Repentance, by Finn Damgaard
From Peter in Early Christianity As often noted, the concept of repentance plays a crucial role in Luke-Acts. In the gospel, the call to repentance occurs frequently in the preaching and teaching of...
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PSALMS: My Messy House, by Kathleen Norris
From: Amazing Grace When I’m working as an artist-in-residence at parochial schools, I like to read the psalms out loud to inspire the students, who are usually not aware that the snippets they sing at...
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POETRY: E Tenebris, by Oscar Wilde
Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach thy hand, For I am drowning in a stormier sea Than Simon on thy lake of Galilee: The wine of life is spilt upon the sand, My heart is as some famine-murdered...
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POETRY: The Road To Damascus: 6, by Tania Runyan
I have sinned, I said. I want eternal life, I said. That was the moment. I wanted nothing but God. I wanted a cheeseburger. I wanted nothing at all. Finally, I wanted it all settled. I folded by hands...
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I repent the actual. It has never got me anywhere. It is nothing against principalities, against powers. My father will die and I will carry on. I dread his death more than mine because it will come...
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