Reflection for Tuesday, March 11, 2014: 1st week in Lent.
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Rouse, Maryanne
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2014-03-11
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|This is the seventh day of Lent 2014; it may find you settled into a plan for reading, prayer, almsgiving, service or a combination of these and more. Or you may still be awaiting a call to spend Lent in a special way that you have yet to hear. Finally as is often my experience, life delivers a happening that demands my earnest reliance on God for solace that only God can provide. |We never know when God will beckon. For example, today's Gospel in which Jesus does a basic thing: He tells the apostles, "This is how you are to pray." So He begins the Our Father, which despite its familiarity most often presents some phrase on which to cling for inspiration. |Yet, perhaps today offers an opportunity to learn a bit more about this most common of prayers. For example, there is a book that can be found on the Internet, The Lord's Prayer in 500 Languages, comprising the "leading languages and their principal dialects throughout the world." A huge testament to the fact that Christians have taken to heart Jesus's instructions. And if it has been a good source for all of those many, perhaps for us. |There have been any number of adaptations in English written perhaps to fit more culturally a variety of praying Christians: Native Americans, Africans, and an interesting, Internet also "Alternative Versions," that includes the New Zealand Prayer Book; from Mark Berry of the Emerging Church Movement, that ends with a Postscript after the Amen: " May our future actions grow from here!" Also included is a "retranslation" from the Aramaic that begins: "O Breathing Life, your Name shines everywhere!" |The one that captures my interest for prayer today, another from this collection, "from Dominican Sisters Retreat, March 1993, Great Bend Kansas." |Prayed with alternating sides:| Side 1:|Our Father| What art in heaven|Hallowed be thy name| Thy kingdom come| Thy will be done on earth as |It is in heaven.|Give us this day our daily bread.| And forgive us our trespasses|As we forgive those who treSpass | against us.| Lead us not into temptation| But deliver us from evil.|For Thine is the kingdom| Side 2:| Our Mother| Who are in all the earth| Holy is your truth| May your wisdom come| Your circle be one uniting| Heaven and earth. | Give us today a nurturing spirit.| Heal through is as we ourselves are healed.| Lead us into Fullness of life.| And liberate all that is good.| For the Wisdom, the Power and the Glory| Presence and the Goodness are Yours| Now and forever. Amen. |May God and you find freshness together in your Lenten journey!
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University Ministry, Creighton University.
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Lectionary number: 225