In like wise, therefore, we too, candidates for angelhood, if we succeed in deserving it, begin even here on earth to learn by heart that strain hereafter to be raised unto God, and the function of future glory. Another custom has now become prevalent. Lord Jesus Christ, write me Your servant in the Book of Life, and grant me a good end. How many duties are simultaneously discharged! What of the fact that in the Greek speech, in which the apostle wrote his letters, it is usual to say, women rather than females; that is, γυναῖκας (gunaikas) rather than θηλείας (theleias)? If it is shameful for a woman to be shorn it is similarly so to a virgin too. Lord, deliver me from all ignorance, forgetfulness, cowardice and stony insensibility. Feed the hungry; ransom our prisoners; Ever if we must be angry, our anger must not be maintained beyond sunset, as the apostle admonishes. Luke 11:5-9 Moreover, He justly added, Give us this day, seeing He had previously said, Take no careful thought about the morrow, what you are to eat. If so, please consider sharing it with others so that they may benefit also. In the matter of kneeling also prayer is subject to diversity of observance, through the act of some few who abstain from kneeling on the Sabbath; and since this dissension is particularly on its trial before the churches, the Lord will give His grace that the dissentients may either yield, or else indulge their opinion without offense to others. Regrettably, I can't reply to every letter, but I greatly appreciate your feedback — especially notifications about typographical errors and inappropriate ads. Touching such, however, as are betrothed, I can with constancy above my small measure pronounce and attest that they are to be veiled from that day forth on which they shuddered at the first bodily touch of a man by kiss and hand. And so, if the manifestation of the Lord's kingdom pertains unto the will of God and unto our anxious expectation, how do some pray for some protraction of the age, when the kingdom of God, which we pray may arrive, tends unto the consummation of the age? Infirmity and malice are characteristics of the devil. Touching modesty of dress and ornamentation, indeed, the prescription of Peter 1 Peter 3:1-6 likewise is plain, checking as he does with the same mouth, because with the same Spirit, as Paul, the glory of garments, and the pride of gold, and the meretricious elaboration of the hair. What wonder? Lord, send Your grace to my help, that I may glorify Your holy Name. O Lord, who has mercy upon all, take away from me my sins,and mercifully kindle in me the fire of Your Holy Spirit.Take away from me the heart of stone,and give me a heart of flesh,a heart to love and adore You,a heart to delight in You,to follow and to enjoy You,for Christ’s sake. Why, even as it is the sentence, When I had prayed, and had sat down on my bed, is simply put with a view to the order of the narration, not as a model of discipline. Plainly, it is universally becoming for God to be blessed in every place and time, on account of the memory of His benefits ever due from every man. Lord of heaven and earth remember me, Your sinful servant, shameful and unclean, in Your Kingdom. } For Christ is our Bread; because Christ is Life, and bread is life. I am, says He, the Bread of Life; John 6:35 and, a little above, The Bread is the Word of the living God, who came down from the heavens. and again, Does a father give his son a stone when he asks for bread? And deliver me, O Lord, from vain and frivolous thoughts, and from evil desires which defile me. For it has embraced not only the special duties of prayer, be it veneration of God or petition for man, but almost every discourse of the Lord, every record of His Discipline; so that, in fact, in the Prayer is comprised an epitome of the whole Gospel. Nay, Lord, Your kingdom come with all speed — the prayer of Christians the confusion of the heathen, the exultation of angels, for the sake of which we suffer, nay, rather, for the sake of which we pray! This is the reproach that is brought against Israel, to which the Spirit attests heaven and earth, saying, I have begotten sons, and they have not recognized me. And we need the will of God, that we may be able to fulfil these duties. And now enlighten my mind’s eye and open my mouth to study Your words and understand Your commandments and do Your will and sing to You in heartfelt adoration and praise Your Most Holy Name of Father, Son and Holy Spirit, now and ever, and to the ages of ages. for Christ’s sake. Be kind to Your little children, Lord; that is what we ask of You as their Tutor, You the Father, Israel’s guide; Son, yes, but Father as well. And yet that very brevity — and let this make for the third grade of wisdom — is supported on the substance of a great and blessed interpretation, and is as diffuse in meaning as it is compressed in words. May we journey towards Your city, sailing through the waters of sin untouched by the waves, borne tranquilly along by the Holy Spirit, Your Wisdom beyond all telling. Amen. But we more commend our prayers to God when we pray with modesty and humility, with not even our hands too loftily elevated, but elevated temperately and becomingly; and not even our countenance over-boldly uplifted. But in days gone by, withal prayer used to call down plagues, scatter the armies of foes, withhold the wholesome influences of the showers. Lord, deliver me from eternal torments. Matthew 6:32 The like lesson He both inculcates by examples, and repeatedly handles in parables, when He says, Does a father take away bread from his children, and hand it to dogs? Be veiled, virgin, if virgin you are; for you ought to blush. Nay, even that nocturnal knocker knocked for bread. And grant me, O Lord, to pass the sleep of this night in peace, that when I rise from my bed I may please Your most holy Name all the days of my life and conquer my flesh and the fleshless foes that war with me. The angels, likewise, all pray; every creature prays; cattle and wild beasts pray and bend their knees; and when they issue from their layers and lairs, they look up heavenward with no idle mouth, making their breath vibrate after their own manner. Edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe. For what will aliments profit us, if we are really consigned to them, as it were a bull destined for a victim? Lord, deprive me not of Your heavenly joys. Amen. Likewise it washes away faults, repels temptations, extinguishes persecutions, consoles the faint-spirited, cheers the high-spirited, escorts travellers, appeases waves, makes robbers stand aghast, nourishes the poor, governs the rich, upraises the fallen, arrests the falling, confirms the standing. What more then, touching the office of prayer? Below are ten prayers by the Early Fathers of the Church that give us wonderful insight into how these great pioneers approached God in prayer and worship. Night and day until the last day of all, may our praises give You thanks, our thanksgiving praise You: You who alone are both Father and Son, Son and Father, the Son who is our Tutor and our Teacher, together with the Holy Spirit. O Lord, grant me the thought of confessing my sins. On the other hand, for our own petition, when we say, Hallowed be Your name, we pray this; that it may be hallowed in us who are in Him, as well in all others for whom the grace of God is still waiting; Isaiah 30:18 that we may obey this precept, too, in praying for all, 1 Timothy 2:1 even for our personal enemies. })(); Subscribe to our mailing list and get latest Updates, Spiritually Grounded © 2018 - All Rights Reserved |. Even the Lord Himself prayed; to whom be honour and virtue unto the ages of the ages! From Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. You can share them with us in the comments section below. Jesus demonstrates this in praying that Peter might overcome temptation (Luke 22:32). Lord, deliver me from all ignorance, forgetfulness, cowardice and stony insensibility. Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. If you are a virgin, shrink from (the gaze of) many eyes. Please help support the mission of New Advent and get the full contents of this website as an instant download. Let her, then, maintain the character wholly, and perform the whole function of a virgin: what she conceals for the sake of God, let her cover quite over. For indeed it is on account of the angels 1 Corinthians 11:10 that he says women must be veiled, because on account of the daughters of men angels revolted from God. Contact information. O Lord my God, even though I have done nothing good in Your sight, yet grant me by Your grace to make a good start. Again, for the custom which some have of sitting when prayer is ended, I perceive no reason, except that which children give. Exodus 3:13-16 To us it has been revealed in the Son, for the Son is now the Father's new name. Lord, I being human have sinned, but You being the generous God, have mercy on me, knowing the sickness of my soul. Again, while he says that nature herself, 1 Corinthians 11:14 which has assigned hair as a tegument and ornament to women, teaches that veiling is the duty of females, has not the same tegument and the same honour of the head been assigned also to virgins? Amen. Amen. O Lord, grant me the thought of confessing my sins. Why People Leave the Church and Never Come Back, The Real Reasons I Left “The Only Right” Church, Anything But Christian: Why Millennials Leave the Church, Beatles Songs You Haven’t Heard: Old Brown Shoe. Night and day until the last day of all, may our praises give You thanks, our thanksgiving praise You: You who alone are both Father and Son, Son and Father, the Son who is our Tutor and our Teacher, together with the Holy Spirit.
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