My wife helped me pray Evening Prayer (Vespers) this evening. One of the two lines that moved my heart was from 2 Tim. 1:9-13.
"In the service of this gospel I have been appointed preacher and apostle and teacher, and for its sake I undergo present hardships."
If there was a mystagogia to the Sacrament of Holy Orders, this would be one Scripture passage on which to reflect. Having now experienced the sacrament to the holy diaconate, I am humbled before the appointment I have received. It is somewhat different from having taught the Faith as a layman. The line about enduring hardships for the sake of the Gospel moved move so profoundly that I ha to interrupt my wife during Vespers to reflect on it.
She said that I should post it. I said that I would blog it instead. I remarked how I was a sinner and failed to live up to this appointment.
She also remarked that the line touch her about enduring hardship for the Gospel to which I responded that all the baptized endure this.
The second line that touched my heart from Vespers I posted on Facebook. It was "Save the poor, O Lord."
"In the service of this gospel I have been appointed preacher and apostle and teacher, and for its sake I undergo present hardships."
If there was a mystagogia to the Sacrament of Holy Orders, this would be one Scripture passage on which to reflect. Having now experienced the sacrament to the holy diaconate, I am humbled before the appointment I have received. It is somewhat different from having taught the Faith as a layman. The line about enduring hardships for the sake of the Gospel moved move so profoundly that I ha to interrupt my wife during Vespers to reflect on it.
She said that I should post it. I said that I would blog it instead. I remarked how I was a sinner and failed to live up to this appointment.
She also remarked that the line touch her about enduring hardship for the Gospel to which I responded that all the baptized endure this.
The second line that touched my heart from Vespers I posted on Facebook. It was "Save the poor, O Lord."
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