Come to Stillness: Take a few minutes to allow your mind and heart to
be still before God.
Opening Prayer: All praise and thanks to thee, most merciful
God, for adopting us as thine own children, for incorporating us into thy holy
Church, and for making us worthy to share in the inheritance of the saints in
light. Grant us, we pray, all things
necessary for our common life, and bring us all to be of one heart and mind
within thy holy Church; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. (The Book of Common Prayer)
Scripture Reading for the Day: John 13:31-34
Reading for Reflection:
Community, then, cannot
grow out of loneliness, but comes when the person who begins to recognize his
or her belovedness greets the belovedness of the other. The God alive in me greets the God resident
in you. When people can cease having to
be for us everything, we can accept the fact they may still have a gift for
us. They are partial reflections of the
great love of God, but reflections nevertheless. We see that gift precisely and only once we
give up requiring that person to be everything, to be God. We see him or her as a limited expression of
an unlimited love. (Turn My Mourning Into Dancing by Henri J. M. Nouwen)
Reflection and Listening: silent and written
Prayer: for the church, for others, for myself
Prayer: for the church, for others, for myself
Closing Prayer: O God, fountain of love, pour love into our
souls, that we may love those whom you love with the love you give us, and
think and speak about them tenderly, meekly, lovingly; and so loving our
brothers and sisters for your sake, may we grow in your love, and live in your
love, that by living in your love we may live in you; for Jesus Christ’s sake.
(E. B. Pusey, quoted from Classic Christian Prayers by Owen
Collins)
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