Oct. 26, 2007
The Cloud of Witness pages 52, 53, 54, 55
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[053]
The New Year and The Season Of Epiphany
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"Thy Light Is Come"
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The Feast of the Circumcision - Jan. 1st
The Epiphany - Jan. 6th
The Conversion of St. Paul* - Jan. 25th
The Feast of the Presentation* - Feb, 2nd
*When there are less than *four* Sundays after the Epiphany, one or both of
these festivals will fall within the following Season.
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Feast of the Circumcision.
The Divine Brotherhood.
In all things it behoved Him to be made like unto His brethren.--Heb. 11. 7.
Thou would'st like wretched man be made,
In everything but sin,
That we as like Thee might become
As we unlike have been.
Stennett.
He is not ashamed to call them brethren.
Heb. 11. 11.
Give me an heart that beats
In all its pulses with the common heart
Of human kind, which the same things make glad,
The same make sorry! Give me grace enough
Even in their first beginnings to detect
The endeavours which the proud heart still is making
To cut itself from off the common root,
To set itself upon a private base,
To have wherein to glory of its own,
Beside the common glory of the kind!
Each such attempt in all its hateful pride
And meanness, give me to detect and loathe,--
A man, and claiming fellowship with men!
Trench.
He is bound to me,
For human love makes aliens near of kin.
J. Ingelow.
Such was the life Thou livedst; self-abjuring,
Thine own pains never easing,
Our burdens bearing, our just doom enduring,
A life without self- pleasing.
Faber.
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[055]
The New Year
"Onward and Upward"
"Forward out of darkness, forward into light!"
A Prayer for the Week
O Lord, Thou knowest what is best for us, give whatThou wilt, and how
much thou wilt, and when Thou wilt! Deal with me as Thou thinkest good,
and asbest pleaseth Thee, and is most for Thine honour! Set me where
Thou wilt, and deal with me in all things just as Thou wilt!
Confirm and strengthen me in all goodness, and grant that the rest of my life
hereafter may be pure and holy, so that at the last I may come to Thine
eternal joy!
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[053]
The New Year and The Season Of Epiphany
------
"Thy Light Is Come"
------
The Feast of the Circumcision - Jan. 1st
The Epiphany - Jan. 6th
The Conversion of St. Paul* - Jan. 25th
The Feast of the Presentation* - Feb, 2nd
*When there are less than *four* Sundays after the Epiphany, one or both of
these festivals will fall within the following Season.
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[054]
Feast of the Circumcision.
The Divine Brotherhood.
In all things it behoved Him to be made like unto His brethren.--Heb. 11. 7.
Thou would'st like wretched man be made,
In everything but sin,
That we as like Thee might become
As we unlike have been.
Stennett.
He is not ashamed to call them brethren.
Heb. 11. 11.
Give me an heart that beats
In all its pulses with the common heart
Of human kind, which the same things make glad,
The same make sorry! Give me grace enough
Even in their first beginnings to detect
The endeavours which the proud heart still is making
To cut itself from off the common root,
To set itself upon a private base,
To have wherein to glory of its own,
Beside the common glory of the kind!
Each such attempt in all its hateful pride
And meanness, give me to detect and loathe,--
A man, and claiming fellowship with men!
Trench.
He is bound to me,
For human love makes aliens near of kin.
J. Ingelow.
Such was the life Thou livedst; self-abjuring,
Thine own pains never easing,
Our burdens bearing, our just doom enduring,
A life without self- pleasing.
Faber.
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[055]
The New Year
"Onward and Upward"
"Forward out of darkness, forward into light!"
A Prayer for the Week
O Lord, Thou knowest what is best for us, give whatThou wilt, and how
much thou wilt, and when Thou wilt! Deal with me as Thou thinkest good,
and asbest pleaseth Thee, and is most for Thine honour! Set me where
Thou wilt, and deal with me in all things just as Thou wilt!
Confirm and strengthen me in all goodness, and grant that the rest of my life
hereafter may be pure and holy, so that at the last I may come to Thine
eternal joy!