easter weekend
I sit here working on papers, answering emails, cleaning my bathroom rug (I love it when things overflow into your apartment when you are gone all day), trying to reacquire my taste for coke, and getting used to my new keyboard (the best investments I have made recently are a fantastic 19″ hd monitor and a cordless laser (?) mouse and keyboard for my 12″ powerbook (when o apple will you release the wee macbook pro? we are waiting), and I keep thinking back to this past weekend. This year I was able to reflect on each of the three days (including a very “saturday” sandwiched between Good Friday and Easter Sunday at the beach watching the powerful waves crash in the final moments of the dark night of Saturday) - there may be another post coming about that night (my track record with this site might suggest otherwise). I just sent an email asking for the prayer of contrition that I led for our campus Good Friday service. Here it is for you (and the link for the site which it was modified from):
God, who has been revealed to us as the I AM,
On this Friday, we stand together as sinners at the foot of the cross of the crucified Christ.
God who is the I AM, remind us that if you are the I AM, then we are not.
As we stand here at the with the crucified cross before us,
Give us spirits of humility before others and humility before you.
O Jesus, meek and humble of heart,
Hear us.
From the desire of being esteemed,
Deliver us, O Jesus.
From the desire of being loved,
Deliver us, O Jesus.
From the desire of being extolled,
Deliver us, O Jesus.
From the desire of being honored,
Deliver us, O Jesus.
From the desire of being praised,
Deliver us, O Jesus.
From the desire of being preferred to others,
Deliver us, O Jesus.
From the desire of being consulted,
Deliver us, O Jesus.
From the desire of being approved,
Deliver us, O Jesus.
From the fear of being humiliated,
Deliver us, O Jesus.
From the fear of being despised,
Deliver us, O Jesus.
From the fear of suffering rebukes,
Deliver us, O Jesus.
From the fear of being calumniated,
Deliver us, O Jesus.
From the fear of being forgotten,
Deliver us, O Jesus.
From the fear of being ridiculed,
Deliver us, O Jesus.
From the fear of being wronged,
Deliver us, O Jesus.
From the fear of being suspected,
Deliver us, O Jesus.
That others may be loved more than we,
Jesus, grant us the grace to desire it.
That others may be esteemed more than we,
Jesus, grant us the grace to desire it.
That, in the opinion of the world,
others may increase and we may decrease,
Jesus, grant us the grace to desire it.
That others may be chosen and we set aside,
Jesus, grant us the grace to desire it.
That others may be praised and we go unnoticed,
Jesus, grant us the grace to desire it.
That others may be preferred to me in everything,
Jesus, grant us the grace to desire it.
That others may become holier than we,
provided that we may become as holy as we should,
Jesus, grant us the grace to desire it.
http://www.ainglkiss.com/prayers/hum.htm