Protect us, Lord, as we stay awake; watch over us as we sleep, that awake, we may keep watch with Christ, and as we sleep, rest in his peace.
That's a word different than is written in the office but that's how they sing it in Compline at Gethsemani, and I can hardly pray this antiphon without singing it to myself as they do there in the dark, the Blessed Mother and Christ watching over them. Can you hear that?... "...we may keep waaa aaaatch with Chriii iiiisst, , and as we sleeeeeep, re est in Hii iiiis peeeeeaaace." Amen.
"Then, if we cannot as yet think alike in all things, at least we may love alike. Herein we cannot possibly do amiss." John Wesley
"Keep your eyes on the crucifix, for Jesus without the cross
is a man without a mission, and the cross without Jesus
is a burden without a reliever." Fulton J. Sheen
"...I am deeply convinced that the Christian leader of the future is called to be
completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self." Henri Nouwen
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