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Oratio: Your Gentle Ways
Guide my heartwith your gentle waysmove mein the directionof your plansteer meaway from sinand follydear Lordthat I may walkwith younow and forever ~Robert Van Valkenburgh
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Lectio: Instruct Only The Wise
Whoever corrects a mocker invites insults; whoever rebukes the wicked incurs abuse.Do not rebuke mockers or they will hate you; rebuke the wise and they will love you.Instruct the wise and they will be wiser still; teach the righteous and they will add to their learning. ~Proverbs 9:7-9
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Scriptio: Loving Others As Myself (Not Instead Of Myself)
I want to be a kinder person. I want to be gentler and slower to anger. I want to be more tender and compassionate. I want to listen more than I talk, and I want to create a more peaceful and less violent world around me. I want these things because I believe that…
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Lectio: Perfect Love
“Perfect love means putting up with other people’s shortcomings, feeling no surprise at their weaknesses, finding encouragement even in the slightest evidence of good qualities in them.” ~St. Thérѐse Of Lisieux
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Scriptio: Remembering God When The Pain Subsides
I find that it is much easier to petition God for help when I am in pain than it is to remember to thank him once that pain subsides. It’s not for lack of desire. I truly want to praise God in all things, not just when I feel like I need him. As…
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Oratio: Clutch To The Cross
I clutch tothe crossthe giftof salvationit reminds meof youthe price you paidfor methough I may weepand I may mournpeace and joyare your promise ~Robert Van Valkenburgh
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Lectio: Even Greater
Do not be troubled if you do not immediately receive from God what you ask Him; for He desires to do something even greater for you, while you cling to Him in prayer. ~Evagrius Ponticus
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Lectio: You Are God’s Temple
Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst? ~1 Corinthians 3:16
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Scriptio: On Love And Judgement
In Matthew 7:2, Jesus says, “For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you (NIV).” I always interpreted this as meaning that how I judge others now will be how I am judged by God later. This may be…
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Oratio: Divine Silence
Hold mein divine silencethat I mayhold othersin the sameallowing lovealoneto do the workbetween us ~Robert Van Valkenburgh