Prayer

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Whether it's lightness of heart or heaviness, it's all alright. No Prayer, good or bad, fails in God's sight.

                  The Pilgrim Continues His Way, Author Unknown 

Sunday Thoughts

We need a Third person in our relationships.

Just as the priests, who embrace one another in the heart of the divine liturgy, say

"Christ is in our midst,"

So we should do the same in our life.

God is not an intruder in our personal relationships, but the One who will cleanse and perfect them.

He will make them secure because his great and eternal love will strengthen and inspire them.

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This is exactly why we run to the church

where the grace of God in the sacrament of marriage will sanctify the union of the man and woman

so that they will compliment each other with their talents

and work together for a perfection which will be reflected not only in their loving relationship in this life, 

but in the eternity of the kingdom to come.

The Lord said,

'Without me you can do nothing.'

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From the talk, 'Our personal relationship with God'

Archimandrite Zacharias

Saint John the Baptist Monastery, Essex

Have a blessed Sunday

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Sunday Thoughts

In your anger,

Do not sin.

Do not let the sun go down while you are angry.

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Ephesians 4:26

This is one I really ought to remind myself of often :)