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 March 2021

Wednesday 03 March +++ Christ within

 

Psalm35│Jeremiah 8.18-9.11│Hebrews 2.10-18│John 6.60-71

Psaumes 35 |Jérémie 8.18-9.11|Hébreux 2.10-18|Jean 6.60-71

 

Christ within

 

The early church had to wrestle to understand what the birth, life, death and Resurrection of Jesus  meant. His coming was not an event of one moment, Heaven and Earth making brief contact, but the beginning of a new cosmic order.

'Mysteries of the Passion, Resurrection, and Ascension of Christ' (detail) by Antonio Campi, 1569, Louvre, Paris

From Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=56523 [retrieved February 12, 2021]. Original source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/mhbishop/7061390583/.

 The writer of this letter uses words in the passage that apply to us showing that we have become part of Heaven – ‘glory’, ‘holy’, ‘free’. The words used about Jesus show how he became part of Earth; ‘shared our humanity’, ‘suffered’, ‘tempted’. God in Christ became one with us so as to draw us up into His divinity. Just as Christ incarnate is fully god and fully man, so we are simultaneously citizens of Earth and citizens of Heaven. This means there is no conflict, no need to choose between our two homes. All the time we are in both. Christ is in us, working to make us glorious, holy and free.

 

Ann Milton

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