To love God with all your heart, and your neighbor as yourself, is a greater thing than all the temple sacrifices. Mark 12: 33.
Let us pray to the Lord without duplicity,
in tune with one another,
entreating God with sighs and tears,
as befits people in our position-
placed as we are between the many,
lamenting that they have fallen way,
and the faithful remnant
that fears it may do the same;
between the weak,
laid low in large numbers,
and the few still standing firm.
Let us pray that peace
may very soon be restored to us,
help reach us in our dangers,
draw us from our dark retreats,
and may God's gracious promises
find fulfillment.
May we see after the rain, fair weather,
after the darkness, light,
after these storms and tempests,
a gentle calm. Amen.
- St. Cyprian of Carthage
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