Lenten Reading Plan – Day 16 – Mar 14

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St. Justin Martyr: First Apology: chapters 48 -59

Day 16 Lite Version

St. Justin Martyr: First Apology:54-60

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Lenten Reading Plan – Day 6 – Mar 3

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St. Ignatius of Antioch: Letter to the Magnesians: complete

Day 6 Lite Version

St. Ignatius of Antioch: Letter To the Magnesians: 1-5

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My Morning Prayer

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If  Time and Space and all the created resist You, their Maker, let me be the void, a nothing, a nobody, empty as a vacuum, demanding Your entrance by Love if not by law.  Fill my space and time.  Topple my pride by Your Uncreated Presence. Now master chaotic waters and silence my current.  Still the fallen artistry of the proud “I, myself.”

Conqueror of all You survey, probe me, and finding me “all flaw”,  reign in Your handiwork, Oh Hearer of my prayer.  One person, one prayer, one poor heart’s entreaty; who can resist You or stand in the way of  Your advance?  My faith rests in Your infinity, your unending answer to trust.  Love transforms the Law by Covenant.  “The Lord sat enthrones over the flood; the Lord sits as King for ever.” (Psalm 29)

Lenten Reading Plan – Day 4 – Feb 28

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Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians: complete

Day 3 Lite Version

St. Ignatius of Antioch: Letter to the Ephesians: 8-14

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Lenten Reading Plan – Day 18 – Mar 17

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St. Cyprian on the Unity of the Church (Treatise I): Secs. 1-9


Day 18 Lite Version

St. Cyprian: On the Unity of the Church (Treatise I): 1-9

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My Imitation of Christ

mysun22The Joy of a Good Conscience  (Bk2,Chap6):

THE glory of a good man is the testimony of a good conscience. Therefore, keep your conscience good and you will always enjoy happiness, for a good conscience can bear a great deal and can bring joy even in the midst of adversity.