So become imitators of God as beloved children, that is walk in love, as also Jesus loved us, and handed himself over for us as an offering and sacrifice, to God for a fragrant aroma.
O Lord Jesus Christ, stay beside me to defend me, within me to guide me, before me to lead me, and above me to bless me, that with you and in you, I may live, and move and have my being, for ever and ever. Amen.
Do not let any bad word come out of your mouths, but (let) whatever (comes our of your mouths) be good for building up of what is needed so that it would give grace to those who hear – And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed until that day of redemption. Set aside from you every bitterness and rage and anger and shouting and cursing with all evil but be kind to one another compassionate forgiving one another, just as God in Christ has forgiven you.
Lord God,, you feed us with the living bread from heaven; you renew our faith, increase our hope, and strengthen our love.
Teach us to hunger for Christ who is the true and living bread, and to live by every word that comes from your mouth, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Therefore having taken off falsehood, ‘Each (of you) speak truth with their neighbour‘ because we are members of one another. ‘Be angry and do not sin.‘ Do not let the sun set on your anger, nor give room to the devil. Let thieves no longer thieve, rather let them work, by working good with their own hands so that they might have something to give to someone who is needy.
God be in head and in my understanding; God be in my eyes and in my looking; God be in my mouth and in my speaking; God be in my heart and in my thinking; God be at my end and at my departing.
But you did not learn Christ so, for certainly you heard (about) him and have been taught in him, just as the truth is in Jesus, you! take off the ‘old person‘ that is the former way of life which is being corrupted in accordance with deceitful desires but you be renewed in the spirit, that is your mind, and you put on the ‘new person’ which is being created in accordance with God in righteousness and holiness of the truth
O thou, who art the light of the minds that know thee, the life of the souls that love thee, and the strength of the wills that serve thee; help us so to know thee that we may truly love thee; so to love thee that we may fully serve thee, whom to serve is perfect freedom. Amen
So I say this, and affirm in the Lord, you are no longer to ‘walk’ as the gentiles ‘walk’ in the futility of their minds, having been darkened in their understanding, having been separated from the life of God because of the ignorance in them because of the hardness of their hearts who having became insensitive have given themselves to debauchery for the practice of every impurity with a hunger for more.
God be in head and in my understanding; God be in my eyes and in my looking; God be in my mouth and in my speaking; God be in my heart and in my thinking; God be at my end and at my departing.
And he gave: apostles prophets evangelists shepherds and teachers for the equipping of the holy ones for the work of service for the building up of the body of Christ, until all of us attain the unity of faith and knowledge of the Son of God a mature person the measure which is the stature of the fulness of Christ so that we are no longer infants tossed here and there by waves or blown about by every wind that is teaching by human cunning by craftiness according to deceitful schemes, but by speaking the truth in love we might grow in love into him (in) all things who is the head, Christ, from whom all the body is being joined together and being held together by every supporting ligament -each one working its part- is making the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.
O Lord Open our eyes to your presence Open our minds to your grace Open our lips to your praises Open our hearts to your love Open our lives to your healing And be found among us. Amen.
To each of us has been given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. Therefore it/he says: ‘Having gone up to the high place he led captured captives; (and) he gave gifts to people.’
So what is ‘He went up…’ unless he went down also to the lowest (parts), (that is) the earth? The one who went down is the one who went up far above all the heavens, so that he might fill all things.
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You ascended on high, leading a host of captives in your train and receiving gifts among men, even among the rebellious, that the Lord God may dwell there.
God, give me grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, Courage to change the things which should be changed, and the Wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
Living one day at a time, Enjoying one moment at a time, Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace, Taking, as Jesus did, This sinful world as it is, Not as I would have it, Trusting that You will make all things right, If I surrender to Your will, So that I may be reasonably happy in this life, And supremely happy with You forever in the next.
(There is) one body and one Spirit, just as you also have been called in one hope (produced by) your calling one Lord, one faith one baptism one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.
Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart; Naught be all else to me, save that thou art – Thou my best thought, by day or by night; Waking or sleeping, thy presence my light.
I urge you all, I, the prisoner in the Lord to ‘walk’ worthily of the calling with which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, (by) bearing with one another in love, (by) making every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
Lord, you have given me so much, I ask for one more thing – a grateful heart.
So to the powerful one who can do infinitely more things than we might ask or understand according to the power at work in us, to him be glory in the Church and in Christ Jesus to all the generations of the ages of the ages, amen.
Be thou a bright flame before me, Be thou a guiding star above me Be thou a smooth path below me Be thou a kindly shepherd behind me Today – tonight -forever Amen.