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Prayer for Proper
12-C:
O God,
the protector of all who trust in you, without whom nothing is strong,
nothing is holy: Increase and multiply upon us your mercy; that, with you
as our ruler and guide, we may so pass through things temporal, that we
lose not the things eternal; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and
reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
[Guide us, Lord, to walk in the path
in which you would lead us.....]
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Proper 12-C (July 25,
2010) Hosea 1:2-10; Col 2:6-19; Lk 11:1-13
St Martin’s, Kalamazoo
Fr. Joseph Neiman
Theme: …with
you as our ruler and guide… (Collect)
“Lord, teach us to
pray.” (Lk 11:1) Have you ever made such a request, or is prayer of little
importance in your life? We all, perhaps, know how to ask for something,
or to dream about what life would be like if our dreams were fulfilled,
and most often these are what become our prayers. Jesus answers the
disciples request by teaching them what we know as the Lord’s Prayer.
The Lord’s Prayer is
the most universally known prayer of Christians – have you taught it to
your children? There are a couple of translations found in our Book of
Common Prayer on page 364, for example. There are even two different
versions in the New Testament. The Lord’s Prayer is found in the Gospel of
Matthew as part of the Sermon on the Mount (Mt. 6:9-13). It is found here
in the Gospel of Luke, which we are hearing throughout this summer, along
with some other teachings on prayer.
As I have taught you
before, we are now in the Church’s great calendar in the season called
“Ordinary Time.” Up to 1979 it was called “Sundays after Pentecost” and
some still have not made the change. Just as in Luke’s Gospel narrative,
Jesus and the disciples are on their way to Jerusalem where his destiny
will be fulfilled, and along the way Jesus is teaching the disciples, and
the crowds who come because they are curious or in need, what it means to
be His disciple. We in parallel form are on our way in our daily lives to
our heavenly Jerusalem, described so eloquently in the book of Revelation
(Ch 21) as the end time. Along the way in our own lives, the risen Lord
through His Holy Spirit is teaching us how to live in the ordinariness of
our daily lives as faithful disciples.
For many of us, prayer
is the duct tape of life. It holds us together when everything seems to be
coming loose, when we lose control, when the unexpected is forced upon us.
But prayer is so much more than that. Since the Lord’s Prayer was taught
by Jesus, it has always had a place of special honor and usage among
Christians through the centuries. Jesus taught his disciples in Aramaic,
not English of course, and very early it became known as the Pater
Noster, the Latin words for “Our Father”. In medieval England,
Christians were expected to know and teach their children the Pater, the
Ave, and the Gloria: the Lord’s Prayer, the first half of the Hail Mary,
and the doxology: “glory be to the Father, and to the Son and to the Holy
Spirit….” By the year 1000 CE, it began to be taught in what we call Old
English, words barely recognizable to us today.
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Daily Meditation
written by Henri Nouwen
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Digging Into Our Spiritual Resources
When someone hurts us, offends us, ignores us, or rejects us,
a deep inner protest emerges. It can be rage or depression, desire to take
revenge or an impulse to harm ourselves. We can feel a deep urge to wound
those who have wounded us or to withdraw in a suicidal mood of
self-rejection. Although these extreme reactions might seem exceptional, they
are never far away from our hearts. During the long nights we often find
ourselves brooding about words and actions we might have used in response to
what others have said or done to us.
It is precisely here that we have to dig deep into our spiritual resources
and find the center within us, the center that lies beyond our need to hurt
others or ourselves, where we are free to forgive and love.
![[photo]](http://www.henrinouwen.org/images/email/henri_bw.jpg) Finding
My Way Home: Pathways to Life and the Spirit, ©Henri J.M. Nouwen.
Published by The Crossroad Publishing Company
[My Motto]
The Lord God has given me
the tongue of a teacher,
that I may know how to sustain
the weary with a word.
Morning by morning he wakens—
wakens my ear
to listen as those who are taught.
5The Lord God
has opened my ear,
and I was not rebellious,
I did not turn backwards
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"Lord,
teach us to pray!"
