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 !

12 April 2011

Lord is gracious 


Tuesday 12th April
Jeremiah 22.1-5, 13-19
Ps 35, 123
Hebrews 11.32-12.2
John 11.45-end

Psalm 123

Psalm 123 is a Song of the Ascents, from the liturgy for the Dedication of Solomon’s Temple in the 10th century BC.

The psalmist addresses the One who dwells in the Temple as O Enthroned in the heavens. For Jerusalem was the meeting-point of heaven and earth, and the Temple was part of heaven itself. So the psalmist stands praying before the very throne of heaven. He recalls Israel’s oppression by the nations and prays that now, with this glorious new Temple, the Lord would deliver them from contempt and raise them to glory. For a few brief decades his prayer was answered. But on Solomon’s death, Israel, riven by factions, was crushed by Egypt.

Lord, have mercy on us! is as good a Lenten prayer as we will find. The future of Christ­endom is as precarious as Israel’s ever was. But this we have for our comfort: the Lord is gracious and merciful…near to all who call upon him in truth (Ps. 145). He who kept faith with fickle Israel, sending for their glory the promised Saviour of the World, will help all who call on him in that name and raise them from contempt to glory unfading.

David Mitchell

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