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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.

And so, my beloved,
run from idol worship.
To sensible people I speak –
Judge – all of you – what I say.
The cup of blessing,
which we bless,
is it not a shared participation in the blood of Christ,
the bread which we break
is it not a shared participation in the body of Christ?
Because there is one bread,
many as we are, are one body
for we all share the one bread.

Consider ‘Israel according to the flesh’
are not those eating the sacrifice
participants in the sacrificial altar?

What then do I say?
The food-offered-to idols is (something)
or the an idol is (something)?
But (I say) that what is sacrificed
is offered to demons and not to God.
I do want you to be participants with demons.
You cannot drink the cup of the Lord
and the cup of demons,
you cannot share in the table of the Lord
and the table of demons.
Or we do make the Lord jealous?
We not stronger than he is, are we?

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,
Eternal Pity, have mercy upon us;
that with all our heart and mind
and soul and strength we may seek thy face
and be brought by thine infinite mercy
to thy holy presence;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Alcuin (735-804)

Nevertheless, with the majority of them
God was not pleased
for their bodies were scattered in the desert.
Now these things occurred as a pattern of us,
so that we are not people who desire evil things
as they desired evil things…

And do not become idol worshippers
as some of them
as it is written:
‘the people sat down to eat and drink
and they stood to party.’

And do not let us be sexually immoral
as some of them were immoral and fell,
in one day 23,000.

And do not let us continue to put Christ to the test
as some of them tested (him)
and were destroyed by the snakes.

And do not grumble
as some of them grumbled
and were killed by the Destroyer.

These things happened to them as warnings
and were written for our instruction
on whom the ends of the ages has come
so that the one who thinks they stand
let them see that they do not fall.

A temptation (trial) has not seized you
except a (typically) human one,
Moreover faithful is God-
who will not let you be tested
beyond what you are able (to bear)
but will make
with the temptation
an escape route also:
your ability to bear it.

Lord, you have given me so much,
I ask for one more thing –
a grateful heart.

George Herbert

For I do not want you to live in ignorance,
brothers/ sisters:
all our ancestors
were under the cloud
and all went through the sea,
and all were baptized into Moses
in the cloud and in the sea.
and all ate the same spiritual food
and all drank the same spiritual drink.
For they were drinking the spiritual following rock,
and the rock was Christ.

Nevertheless, with the majority of them
God was not pleased
for their bodies were scattered in the desert.
Now these things occurred as a pattern of us,
so that we are not people who desire evil things
as they desired evil things…

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.

St Columba

Do you not know that
all those running in a stadium
run
but one receives the prize?
run persistently so that you obtain it.
Moreover everyone who competes
must be disciplined in everything.
So they (do this) to receive a perishable crown,
but you an imperishable (one).
I, for that reason,
in this way I run
not aimlessly,
in this way I box
not beating air.
But I discipline my body
and I bring it under control
lest somehow
preaching to others
I might not be shown to be not what I should be.

Teach us, good Lord,
to serve thee as thou deservest;
to give and not to count the cost;
to fight and not to heed the wounds;
to toil and not to seek for rest;
to labour and not to ask for any reward,
save that of knowing that we do thy will,
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen

St Ignatius

Free – I am!
from all (people)
I have put myself into slavery
to all (people),
so that I might win
the greatest (number).
And I became to the Jews
as a Jew
so that I might win Jews.
To those under the Law
(I became) as one under the Law –
not being myself under the Law
so that I might win those under the Law.

To those ‘free from the Law’
not being free from the Law of God
but ‘subject to the Law’ of Christ
that I might gain those ‘free from the Law.’
I have became weak for those who are weak,
so that I might gain those who are weak,
for all (people) I have become all things
so that by all means I might save some.
I do all things on account of the gospel,
so that I might become a sharer in it.

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