Lent daybook, 35:If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord

A Lent daybook for these 40 days of prayer. Join me, won't you? (see all Lent daybook 2015 posts here.)

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look

The Christian Martyr's Last Prayer - Jean-Leon Gerome source   Martyrs in Libya whispered "Lord Jesus Christ" before execution -- CNS/Reuters source

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read

Romans 10:1-13:  If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved

{all readings for the day: Psalm 121; Jeremiah 25:8-17; Romans 10:1-13; John 9:18-41 }

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pray 

Almighty God, you alone can bring into order the unruly wills and affections of sinners: Grant your people grace to love what you command and desire what you promise; that, among the swift and varied changes of the world, our hearts may surely there be fixed where true joys are to be found; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. source

My help is in the Name of the Lord who made the heavens and the earth. What then shall I fear of what shall I be afraid?

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listen

 Berliner Messe: Kyrie
 Arvo Part

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do

 Love: Identify

What's your identity? What are you to be about? ...To receive God's love in every way into your being and then to reflect that love outward. Hildegard of Bingen, the great medieval abbess, said we should be mirrors... mirroring God's light and God's love with great generosity everywhere we go. Love: love is of our essence. 

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