The “Bright Sadness” of Lent A Commination In older versions of the Book of Common Prayer, there’s a section called “a commination.” It has a rather weighty variant subtitle: or denouncing of God’s anger and judgments against sinners with certain prayers to be used on the first day of Lent, and at other times, as […]
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Prayer is difficult for me. The church fathers knew this. When you read the words of the desert monks (and we all probably should), they talk about their distracting thoughts and sleepy eyes, their lustful desires- all the things that especially ramp up when they knelt down to pray. They understood those distractions as enemy […]
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