_Lord Christ, pour you spirit into my heart._ _Heal the wounds that are there,_ _That I may be a healer for others._ . By Terry Waite . This prayer came back to me last year when I heard that Terry Waite was planning to go to Beirut and meet Hezbollah after having...
_Lord, I live, yet no true life I know,_ _And, living thus expectantly,_ _I die because I do not die._ . Taken from a poem by St Teresa of Avila . In the preparations for Palm Sunday, alone or in a group, I have found this to be a great support for welcoming Christ...
I am Ground of thy beseeching: first it is my will that thou have it; and after, I make thee to will it; and after, I make thee to beseech it and thou beseechest it. How should it then be that thou shouldst not have thy beseeching. . Julian of Norwich (1342-1416)...
Lord God,.. give me, Thy handmaid, a teachable heart, so that I may know what is acceptable in Thy sight; send from heaven the Spirit of Thy wisdom and rule my heart with its guidance, Amen. (Elizabeth Collected Works, Ed: Marcus, Mueller, Rose, University of Chicago...
Throughout Holy Week the presence of Mary Magdalene, drawn from all four gospels, guides me as she is near Jesus while he walks the Via Dolorosa. I am with her as she stands with the other women at the foot of the cross, hears his last words, watches Joseph of...