This week's prayer is from English poet, teacher, High Church Anglican cleric and Roman Catholic convert, and major metaphysical poet in 17th-century English literature, Richard Crashaw (1613–1649). If you choose to pray this prayer, perhaps do so not only for your own Christian community (or yourself) but on behalf of our Christian neighbours to the …
Tag: Cross
Good Friday in the Gospel of John (19:16-30)
So they took Jesus, and he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called The Place of a Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha. There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, and Jesus between them. Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. …
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A Prayer of Confession
In a day when too many avoid personal responsibility for their actions and blame external factors, other people, and institutional systems for their wrongs, prayers like the one below remind us that each of us is a sinner. If I do something wrong—something sinful—I am to blame. I am culpable. Too often we behave like …
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