Grant us, O Lord, to trust in you with all our hearts; for, as you always resist the proud who confide in their own strength, so you never forsake those who make their boast of your mercy; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
2 comments:
Amen.
Thanks Allan, for these prayers. I'm back to using a prayer book. Scot McKnight got me on to this through his recent book on praying this way- Praying With the Church, I think it's called. I slacked off soon after I started, because it's hard for me to do something halfway. But now am back on again, and though the prayer book is light in volume, it is good in content (The Book of Hours, I believe it's called, by the Community of Jesus, in Massacheusetts, itself evangelical I believe, but ecumenical.
Thanks again.
Ted:
I think prayer books are great. I was raised as a low church Protestant, so I grew up believing that unless the prayer was spontaneous, it wan't a real heart-felt prayer. I have since discovered differently.
The theological richness of the church's prayers through the centuries benefit us all in our devotional lives.
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