For to one person through the Spirit is given speech of wisdom,
to another speech of knowledge according to the same Spirit,
to another faith by the same Spirit,
but to another gifts of healings by the one Spirit
then to another working of miracles
to another prophecy
to another discernment of spirits
to another kinds of tongues
but to another translation of tongues.

Now the one and same Spirit
works all these things,
distributing to each as he decides to each person.

O Love, O God who created me, in your love recreate me.
O Love, who redeemed me,
fill up in me whatever part of your love
has fallen into neglect within me.
O Love, O God, who first loved me,
grant that with my whole heart,
and with my whole soul,
and with my whole strength,
I may love you.

Gertrude the Great

Now there are ‘different distributions’ of gifts
but it is the same Spirit
and there are ‘different distributions’of serving
and it is the same Lord
and there are ‘different distributions’of energizings
but it is the same God,
who energizes all things in everyone.

And the manifestation of the Spirit
is given
to each person
for the common benefit.

O Love, O God who created me, in your love recreate me.
O Love, who redeemed me,
fill up in me whatever part of your love
has fallen into neglect within me.
O Love, O God, who first loved me,
grant that with my whole heart,
and with my whole soul,
and with my whole strength,
I may love you.

Gertrude the Great

Now, about the spiritual (gifts and/or people),
sisters /brothers
I do not want you to be uninformed.

You know you
that
– when you were gentiles
-to speechless idols
-however you were being led
(you were) being led astray.

Therefore I am making known to you all
that no-one
by the Spirit of God says
Jesus (is) cursed
and no-one can say
Jesus (is) Lord
except by the Holy Spirit.

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is discord, union;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy,
For your mercy and for your truth’s sake. Amen

So who eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord not fittingly
is guilty (for so treating) the body and blood of the Lord.
But let a person examine themself
and in this way let them eat from the bread and drink from the cup.

For (that) one is eating and drinking judgement on themself,
if they eat and drink without ‘recognising what is different about’ the body

Because of this , among you, many are weak and sick and quite a few are asleep.
Then, if we ‘recognised what is different about’ ourselves,
we would not be judged.

But if we are judged by the Lord
we are being ‘taught by discipline’
so that we might not be condemned with the world.

So, my sisters/brothers,
when you come together to eat
wait for one another.
If someone is hungry,
may it be that they eat at home,
so that you do not come together for judgement.
I will give instructions about other things
whenever I come.

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.

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For I received from the Lord
also what I handed over to you,
that the Lord Jesus
on that night on which he was being handed over
took bread,
and when he had given thanks
he broke it
and said
This is my body
which is for you.
Do this in remembrance of me.
Likewise also the cup
after the supper, saying
This cup is the new covenant
in my blood
do this
whenever you drink
in remembrance of me
For as many times as you eat this bread and drink this cup
you proclaim the death of the Lord
until when he comes.

Eternal God and Father,
you create us by your power,
and redeem us by your love,
guide and strengthen us by your Spirit,
that we may give ourselves in love and service
to one another and to you;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen

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But, declaring this
I do not praise (you) :
when you come together
it is not for the better
but for the worse.
First of all
I hear
when you come together as a church
there are splits
among you
and I believe it in part.

For it is necessary
for there to be factions
among you
so that also the genuine might be evident
among you.

So when you come together
to the same place
to eat
there is no Lord’s supper.
For each person
takes in advance
their own supper
to eat
and one person to be hungry
and another person to be drunk.
For do you not have houses
in which to eat and drink?
or do you despise the church of God?
And do you humiliate the have- nots ?
What should I say to you?
Should I praise you?
I will not praise you in this.

O Lord, in whom is our hope,
remove far from us, we pray thee,
empty hopes and presumptuous confidence.
Make our hearts so right with thy most holy and loving heart,
that hoping in thee we may do good;
until that day when faith and hope
shall be abolished by sight and possession,
and love shall be all in all.

Christina Rossetti (1830-94)

For on the one hand
a man should not have his head covered,
being the image and glory of God.
But on the other hand,
the woman is the glory of a man.

For a man is not from woman
but woman from man.
And indeed
man was not created for the sake of woman
but woman for the sake of the man.

Because of this (the above?)
a woman must have power over her head
– because of the angels.

Nevertheless neither is the woman apart from the man,
not man apart from woman,
in the Lord.
For just as the woman is f rom man
so man is from woman.
But all things are from God.

Judge these things, among yourselves.
Is it appropriate for an uncovered woman to pray to God?
Does not the nature (of things) itself teach you that
– a man, if he has long hair, it is a disgrace for him
-But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory for her.
for her hair has been given as a covering.

If anyone thinks to be argumentative,
we do not have an other custom,
nor (do) the churches of God.

Keep us, O Lord, while we tarry on this earth,
in a serious seeking after thee,
and in an affectionate walking with thee,
every day of our lives;
that when thou comest,
we may be found not hiding our talent,
nor yet asleep with our lamp unfurnished,
but waiting and longing for our Lord,
our glorious King, for ever and ever.

Richard Baxter (1615-1691)

Now, I praise you,
because you remember me always,
and just as I handed (them) to you
you hold fast to the traditions.

But I want you to know that
the head of every man is the Christ,
then head of a woman (is) the man
then the head of the Christ (is) God.

Every man, praying or prophesying,
‘having something coming down’ the head
shames his head.

Every woman, praying or prophesying,
with the head uncovered
shames her head.
For (that) one thing is the same as a shaved head.

Eternal God and Father,
you create us by your power,
and redeem us by your love,
guide and strengthen us by your Spirit,
that we may give ourselves in love and service
to one another and to you;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen

But if someone says to you:
‘This is sacrificial meat’
(generally) do not eat
because of the one¹ who told (you) and (their) conscience.
Now I speak about the conscience
not of one’s own
but the other’s.

For why should my liberty be judged by another’s conscience?
If I take part with thankfulness –
why am I blamed for that which I give thanks for?

So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do
do everything for the glory of God.
Be inoffensive to Jews
and to Greeks
and to the church of God,
As I please all people, all ways
not see to benefit for myself
but for the many
that they might be saved.

Be imitators of me as I am of Christ.

Eternal Light, shine into our hearts;
Eternal Goodness, deliver us from evil;
Eternal Power, be our support;
Eternal Wisdom, scatter the darkness of our ignorance:
That we may seek your face
with all our heart and mind and soul and strength. Amen.

Alcuin

All things are lawful, but not all things are helpful.
All things are lawful, but not all things build up.
Do not seek things for oneself,
but for another.

Eat anything that has been sold in the meat market,
investigating nothing on account of (your) conscience.
for the earth (and what it is) full of are the Lord’s.¹

If a certain one of the unbelievers invites (some of) you
and you wish to go
eat everything that is set before you
investigating nothing on account of (your) conscience.

1. Psalm 24 1 ↩︎

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.

Amen.