A QUOTE, A TEXT AND A PRAYER…OR TWO – The quotes this week are from Arcbbishop Desmond Tutu
A QUOTE
“A person is a person through other persons.
None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how to think, or walk, or speak, or behave as human beings unless we learned it from other human beings. We need other human beings in order to be human. I am because other people are. A person is entitled to a stable community life, and the first of these communities is the family.”
― Desmond Tutu
A TEXT
Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor
rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor
steal: for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. – Matthew 6:20,21
AND A PRAYER…OR TWO
Knowledge of God’s Creation
Almighty and everlasting God, you made the universe with all its marvellous order, its atoms, worlds, and galaxies, and the infinite complexity of living creatures: Grant that, as we probe the mysteries of your creation, we may come to know you more truly, and more surely fulfil our rote in your eternal purpose; in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen
The Book of Common Prayer of the Episcopal Church
Come, Holy Spirit–Renew the Whole Creation
O God, the Holy Spirit, come to us, and among us; come as the wind, and cleanse us; come as the fire, and burn; come as the dew, and refresh; convict, convert, and consecrate many hearts and lives to our great good and thy greater glory, and this we ask for Jesus Christ’s sake.
In Spirit and In Truth: A Worship Book,” World Council of Churches’ Seventh Assembly, Canberra, Australia