Moment Five: Betrayal “The Taking of Christ” National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin c. 1602 Opening Prayer: Most gracious, compassionate and loving God. We praise you for your everlasting faithfulness in spite of all we do to separate ourselves from you. We thank you for your grace and love when we stumble or even walk away [...]
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Moment Four: Triumph “Entry into Jerusalem,” 12th Century Mosaic, S. Marco, Venice Opening Prayer: Holy Spirit of God open my heart and mind to see who I am in the light of Your Truth. Where I need to grow, grant me grace. Where I need to heal, grant me patience. Where I need to be [...]
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Moment One: The Temptation in the Wilderness “I must grasp life at is depth.” Vincent Van Gogh, The Complete Letters, 197, I, 365 “Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him.” Psalm 37.7 “The Temptation in the Wilderness” by John St. John Long (1824) Opening Prayer: Holy Spirit of God: As we begin [...]
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In this sermon, Peter Haas uses the story of Jesus walking on the water (Mark 6.45ff) to teach spiritual principles for living in life, and how the Lenten practices aid us in “sealing us” from the life influences that so often swamp us with fear.
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Divine Love, Silent Presence: As we enter into the final days of Lent, descending with Jesus into the remembrance of his Passion past, we link to present pains, consenting our suffering – physical, emotional, psychological, spiritual – to the shadow-hope of resurrection cresting beneath the crosses we bear, and that bear us. Explanations and justifications pale [...]
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We begin this Holy Week in the name of surrender to the holy one of love, our Lord and Life-Source Jesus Christ. We begin this Holy Week in the hope of personal awakening to the peace of God that brings Christ close in and through each of us gathered together in silence and prayer, sealing upon [...]
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And now O God of perfect timing, enter into each of our hearts and find the city-center in us ready to receive and surrender to your love in its embodied form and in its eternal formlessness . We have been preparing for the entrance of your Word through this Lenten Journey and now we feel [...]
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Prepare us to feel the wound of love through our shouts of hosanna as we find in our own hearts the path laden with good intentions as well as the reality of how quickly we can turn and harden the affections of our heart and change the opinions of our mind. From “hosanna” to “crucify” is [...]
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Anointed now by the remembrance of Spirit, we wish to speak as love. Act as truth. Be as grace. Help us remember and reclaim that we are the living demonstration of divine presence right here, right now. We surrender to the mystery of our possible participation as the continuing incarnation of Christ by the power of the [...]
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Abba: As your daughters and sons, we rest in your continued anointing. By your Spirit guide our intellect so to clearly see; guide our will so to harmoniously choose, and open our hearts so to feel your love in us and our life in you. Amen. *** ContemplativeChristians aims to be an online spiritual resource for [...]
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