Volume 1 Issue 32

Things are saturated with moral law. Every cause in Nature is nothing but a disguised missionary.
-–Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Almighty God, your blessed Son was led by the Spirit
to be tempted by Satan.
Come quickly to help us who are assaulted by many temptations.
And, as you know the weakness of each of us,
let each one find you mighty to save;
through Jesus Christ your Son, our Lord. Amen.
(The Book of Common Prayer, U.S.A., 20th Cent., Alt.)

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Our Lenten journey draws us daily nearer to the Cross and all that it means. Can there be anything more ironic, more paradoxical than that, as the great “Christian” nation “under God,” the United States of America will in all likelihood continue its violent attack upon a foreign land throughout Holy Week and on Easter? Even if we humbled ourselves enough to seek it, how misguided it would be to expect forgiveness for the kind of arrogance that allows us to think that the Creator of the Universe is so easily fooled!
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Until next week…….Shalom!