holy week, wednesday

Wednesday, April 16

Come to Stillness: Take a few minutes to allow your mind and heart to be still before God.

Opening Prayer: By your cross, O Lord, you show the extravagance of your love for us.  Love than knows no limits, no boundaries.  Love that pours down upon us from every wound of your beloved Son.  More love than we could ever ask for or imagine.  When we are tempted to doubt the depths of your heart for us, let our eyes immediately look to Jesus crucified—and may all doubt be taken away.  In His name.  Amen.

Scripture Reading for the Day: Matthew 26:36-46

Reading for Reflection:

Take this to heart and doubt not that you are the one who killed Christ.  Your sins certainly did, and when you see the nails driven through his hands, be sure that you are pounding, and when the thorns pierce his brow, know that they are your evil thoughts.  Consider that if one thorn pierced Christ you deserve a hundred thousand.

                                                                        ~Martin Luther

 

Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us.”

                                                                        ~John R. W. Stott

Reflection and Listening: silent and written

Prayer: for the church, for others, for myself (insert Mission info here)

                                        
Closing Prayer: O God, who by the passion of your blessed Son 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 pain and loss for the sake of your Son our Saviour Jesus Christ; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. (A Collect for Holy Week, Oremus)