Prayer 13 Speaking with God from the Depths of the Heart A Beneficent, almighty, awe-inspiring God, good Father, charitable donor of mercy, whose very name heralds the good news of your grandeur, compassion and fatherly affection, you are gentle even toward the bitter and discontented. With you also is your Son, who is like you, whose hand is strong like yours, whose awesome reign is eternal like yours, whose exaltation is shared with you in your creation. So too the Holy Spirit of your truth, that flows from you without end, the perfect essence of existence and eternal being, is equal to you in all things, reigning with the Son in equal glory. Three persons, one mystery, separate faces, unique and distinct, made one by their congruence and being of the same holy substance and nature, unconfused and undivided, one in will and one in action. One is not greater, one is not lesser, not even by an eyelash, and because of the unobscurable light of heavenly love revealed in our midst both have been glorified with a single crown of holiness from before the ages. B For verily, as Peter’s open profession of faith in the Trinity earned for him the blessed name, Rock, so in expectation of your clemency, do I, a sinner condemned, await exoneration, O deliverer of captives. And though all rewards may be yours, so too is all mercy, but you are not so acclaimed for rewards as for mercy, for while the first brings glory, the second merely recognizes the effort of labor, since rewards are compensation for merit, but mercy is an act of generosity toward the unworthy. C And now, God of compassion, may human deeds not prevail over your grace, even if they transgress the laws of nature, but rather may your forbearance triumph so that your ways may never be less than those of mortals. For when your light came to herald the new covenant, those, like the Jews who prided themselves in keeping the law, were abandoned to greater heartache and became more needy of your charity, than those wretched persons, forever lost in the wilderness. Since everything is possible for you, O benevolent God, hear my sighs of supplication to you. Have mercy, save us, and be generous. For yours is forbearance, gentleness, salvation, atonement and glory for all time, to all peoples. Amen.
Posted on: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 19:57:59 +0000
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