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0 you fire, O you light,
Help me, that in the dark house
The light of Your light shine,
lightening all darkness;
Your warmth glow through it,
O you fire, O you light!
-Sophie Michaelis
Saturday
-Adam Bittleston
O Christ, I remember with love and thankfulness
Those I have known
Who have passed through the gate of death.
I know that some of these have looked on my soul
From the realm in which their souls dwell.
I thank Thee for all I have received from them;
For Thou hast brought our lives to meet.
May my thoughts and feelings reach unto them through Thee;
May they add warmth and purpose
To my earthly life.
And may my meeting again with them
Be blessed by Thee.
Friday:
You live in secret
and fill all your creatures
you work and reign
everything upon everything
and reveal yourself
In tenderness and beauty.
–Sophie Michaelis
Friday
–Adam Bittleston
Let me remember the servants of Christ
Who kept in their hearts
His will for the world.
Beneath the Cross, the beloved disciple
Winning from pain eternal patience,
Beholding in darkness the new beginning.
Paul, who endured all persecution,
Rejoicing in the freedom of the Christian soul.
Columba, through the dark and the cold
Journeying to build a faithful brotherhood.
Francis, overcoming the fear of leprosy,
And raising our vision to the beauty of earth.
Elizabeth, bringing red roses
Into the depths of need.
The work of the servants of Christ
Holds in it sure promise
For the future of earth.
May we protect
What they have planted.
Their power live
In words and deeds of ours.
You who open your clouds
and let your raindrops fall,
Work within us
the miracle of change,
that your earth
receive the waters of life
and its form be renewed.
–Sophie Michaelis
O Christ, Thou readest
The living book of human destiny.
In all who come to Thee
Thou knowest the inmost soul,
The body’s need, the spirit’s seeking.
In my thought of human beings
May I receive Thy light.
In my experience of human deeds
May I feel Thy will.
May we all, as Thy Community,
Find the right ways
For human souls
Who will to serve Thy Spirit.
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