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A means of your peace
This is an additional resource to go with An instrument of your peace posted yesterday (Sunday 14 March 2021). It’s an expanded version of the well-known prayer from Pax Christi USA. Please read it...
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To be, or not to be (Hamlet)
To be, or not to be, that is the question:Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,Or to take arms against a sea of troublesAnd by opposing end them. To...
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Night (Francis William Bourdillon)
The night has a thousand eyes,And the day but one;Yet the light of the bright world diesWith the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes,And the heart but one;Yet the light of a whole life dies,When...
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Sonnet 60 (William Shakespeare)
Like as the waves make towards the pebbl’d shore,So do our minutes hasten to their end;Each changing place with that which goes before,In sequent toil all forwards do contend.Nativity, once in the...
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Maundy Thursday 2021
In the account of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane we begin to glimpse something of what he went through spiritually, mentally and emotionally before his physical suffering and death on the cross....
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Good Friday 2021
I mentioned in my Maundy Thursday 2021 post that my music of choice on Good Friday is Bach’s St. Matthew Passion. It selects itself, and still has the power to shock and move the human spirit. For...
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Holy Saturday 2021
Wait for it…it’s not Easter yet! Today is Holy Saturday, not Easter Saturday. Easter starts with the resurrection of Jesus when darkness is turned to light. In stillness, earth awaits the...
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Easter Sunday 2021
One of the main things which sent the first disciples out into the world with the message of salvation was the conviction embodied in the first Christian creed: Jesus is Lord! It’s found in Acts 2 in...
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Peace (Henry Vaughan)
My Soul, there is a countryAfar beyond the stars,Where stands a winged sentryAll skillful in the wars;There, above noise and dangerSweet Peace sits, crown’d with smiles,And One born in a...
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Psalm 23 (A Psalm of David)
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his...
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