My atheist & agnostic friends may want to skip this post, LOL.From the Book of Common Prayer, Ash Wednesday liturgy:
Most holy and merciful Father:
We confess to you and to one another,
and to the whole communion of saints
in heaven and on earth,
that we have sinned by our own fault
in thought, word, and deed;
by what we have done, and by what we have left undone.
We have not loved you with our whole heart, and mind, and
strength. We have not loved our neighbors as ourselves. We
have not forgiven others, as we have been forgiven.
Have mercy on us, Lord.
We have been deaf to your call to serve, as Christ served us.
We have not been true to the mind of Christ. We have grieved
your Holy Spirit.
Have mercy on us, Lord.
We confess to you, Lord, all our past unfaithfulness: the
pride, hypocrisy, and impatience of our lives,
We confess to you, Lord.
Our self-indulgent appetites and ways, and our exploitation
of other people,
We confess to you, Lord.
Our anger at our own frustration, and our envy of those
more fortunate than ourselves,
We confess to you, Lord.
Our intemperate love of worldly goods and comforts, and
our dishonesty in daily life and work,
We confess to you, Lord.
Our negligence in prayer and worship, and our failure to
commend the faith that is in us,
We confess to you, Lord.
Accept our repentance, Lord, for the wrongs we have done:
for our blindness to human need and suffering, and our
indifference to injustice and cruelty,
Accept our repentance, Lord.
For all false judgments, for uncharitable thoughts toward our
neighbors, and for our prejudice and contempt toward those
who differ from us,
Accept our repentance, Lord.
For our waste and pollution of your creation, and our lack of
concern for those who come after us,
Accept our repentance, Lord.
Restore us, good Lord, and let your anger depart from us;
Favorably hear us, for your mercy is great.
Accomplish in us the work of your salvation,
That we may show forth your glory in the world.
By the cross and passion of your Son our Lord,
Bring us with all your saints to the joy of his resurrection.
4 comments:
Scott, you may need to know that Mad Priest continues to make libelous and false information on his site.The picture he show supposedly "uncovering" me is certainly not me. Nor is the information. This is the second time in the past few days MP has put out false personal information about me. BTW, as is his practice he made delete the libelous material.
Just thought you might be interested.
Well turnabout, after all, is fair play is it not? You claim he's posting libelous & false info about you, yet you feel free to repeatedly display arguably false characterizations about MP and his actions.
How the saying go? "If you can't stand the heat, shut the fuck up," or something like that. ;-)
Scott, the information he posts about me is not "arguably" false. It is just plain false. BTW, I love the kitchen.
If you would reread my comment, it's clear that what i referred to as 'arguably false' were your characterizations of MP.
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