Suggestion for Daily Use

Follow the ‘Daily Prayer’ at the side+++Suivez le ‘Prière Quotidienne’. Read the bible passages and then the meditation. Pray, tell God how you felt about the reading and share the concerns of your life with him. Maybe you will continue the habit after Lent. Lisez les passages bible et après la méditation. Priez, dites à Dieu que vous avez ressenti à propos de la lecture et de partager les préoccupations de votre vie avec lui. Peut-être que vous allez continuer l'habitude après le Carême. Daily Prayer Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. Luke 4.1-2 Now is the healing time decreed For sins of heart, of word or deed, When we in humble fear record The wrong that we have done the Lord. (Latin, before 12th century) Read: Read the Bible passage. Read the meditation Pray: Talk to God about what you have just read. Tell him your concerns - for yourself, your family, our church family, our world. Praise him. Pray the collect for the week – see next pages. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits. Prière Quotidienne Jésus, rempli de l'Esprit Saint, revint du Jourdain et le Saint-Esprit le conduisit dans le désert où il fut tenté par le diable durant quarante jours. Luc 4.1-2 Maintenant le temps de la guérison est décrété Pour les péchés du cœur, de la parole et des actes, Lorsque nous nous souvenons avec humilité Le mal que nous avons fait au Seigneur. Lire : Lisez le passage de la Bible. Lisez la méditation. Prier : Parlez avec le Seigneur de ce que vous avez lu. Parlez-lui de vos préoccupations pour vous-même, votre famille, notre famille de l’église, notre monde. Louez-le. Priez la collecte pour la semaine. Voyez les pages suivantes Mon âme, bénis le Seigneur ! Que tout qui est en moi bénisse son saint nom. Mon âme, bénis le Seigneur, et n’oublie aucun de ses bienfaits !

03 April 2015

Good Friday ~ Psalm 22 ~ Tidal‐Waves of Pain ~ Psaumes 22

Friday 3rd April

Song of Solomon 7.10‐8.4 ~ Cantique des Cantiques 7.10-8.4

1 Corinthians 15.35‐50 ~ 1 Corinthiens 15.35-50

Luke 8.41‐end ~ Luc 8.41- fin

 Psalm 22 ~ Tidal‐Waves of Pain ~ Psaumes 22

One of the factors about myself and other Christians which frustrates me is

our refusal to look long and hard at things when they are really bad. We can

be so caught up with the command to be joyful and confident in the Lord that

we find ourselves averting our gaze from situations and circumstances which

suck the joy and confidence out of the air. I have been moved recently by

working with a parishioner in Leuven who is preparing a sermon for us on the

experience of clinical depression in her family: there is something so corrosive

about clinical depression that it turns to ash our shouts of joy and gladness.

We need to be honest about this if our faith is to be emotionally authentic

enough to convince those around us of its truth, goodness and beauty. In

Matthew and Mark's gospels, Jesus' final words on the cross are Psalm 22.1:

"My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" There is a miserable

desolation in these words which not just those who live with depression but

all people can identify with. Jesus himself, God's Son, deserted and betrayed

by his friends, condemned to death on trumped‐up charges, mocked, laughed

at, spat at, humiliated, tortured to death, cries this great cry of heaviness,

sadness, despair. We know how Psalm 22 ends  ‐  after verse 22 it is an

acclamation of praise and confidence in God's salvation. We know how Good

Friday ends  ‐  on Easter Day the tomb which was the triumph of all that is

corrosive and hating and evil in our world is empty because Jesus has risen.

But today on God's Friday, let us sit and wait patiently with Jesus' despair and

torment, and let us see ourselves and the tidal‐waves of pain in our world in

his wounds.

Le vendredi saint est l'apogée du mal et de la malveillance humains : Jésus

souffre ; Jésus se sent loin de son Père ; Jésus crie son désespoir. Même si

Pâques va donner l'évidence du triomphe divin absolu, ce jour‐ci restons‐nous

avec la douleur de Jésus, qui reflète la souffrance et les larmes de tout son

monde actuel.

Jack McDonald

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