Augustine of Hippo
God, you have made us for yourself and our hearts are restless until we find our rest in you.
August 2020
Clayton’s Sacraments?
The Roman Catholic Church has just formally declared some of its own “sacraments” invalid. Now what?
Resources 22nd Ordinary – 30 August 2020
Faithful God,
source of all good,
graft in our hearts the love of your name,
and bind us more closely to you
so that you nourish the goodness you sow in us
and, by your watchful care,
you tend and guard the good you have nourished;
through Jesus Christ
who is alive with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.
Amen.
Elegy to Silence
We, who live beyond cloister walls, can learn from Carthusians – a 22-minute documentary.
Bernard of Clairvaux
O God,
by whose grace your servant Bernard of Clairvaux,
kindled with the flame of your love,
became a burning and a shining light in your Church:
Grant that we also may be aflame with the spirit of love and discipline
and walk before you as children of light;
through Jesus Christ our Lord,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever. Amen.
Resources 21st Ordinary – 23 August 2020
O God,
you inspire the hearts of the faithful with a single longing,
grant your people to love what you command
and to desire what you promise,
so that in all the changes and chances
of this uncertain world,
our hearts may surely there be fixed
where true joys are to be found;
through Jesus Christ
who is alive with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.
Amen.