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"Father, may your name be kept holy"

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                    Monday musical meditations on God's good news An opening prayer:      You told us, "Ask," Lord Christ, and so we pray      strength for the task and wisdom for the way.      "Seek" was your word: the fullness of your grace      be found, O Lord, by all who seek your face.      "Knock" at the door you said; and patient there      faith may be sure your Father answers prayer.      Grant then your flock to hear your Shepherd voice;      to seek, to knock, and in your love rejoice!      For Lord, you died While seeking God to save,      You knocked, you cried.   You're risen from the grave      To rule all things, Inviting ardent prayer      From priests and kings, Your seekers everywhere.      Come, Jesus, come: We knock, we...

"And who is my neighbor?"

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                   Monday musical meditations on God's good news An opening prayer:      Though I may speak with bravest fire,       And have the gift to all inspire,      And have not love, my works are vain      As sounding brass, and hopeless gain.      Though I may give all I possess,       And striving so, my love profess,      But not be given by love within,      The profit soon turns strangely thin.      Come, Spirit, come; our hearts control,      Our spirits long to be made whole.      Let inward love guide every deed;      By this we worship and are freed.   Amen. Luke 10:25 –37 On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?” 26  “What is written in the ...

"Rejoice that your names are written in heaven"

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                  Monday musical meditations on God's good news An opening prayer:      From all that dwell below the skies      Let the Creator’s praise arise.      Alleluia! Alleluia!      Let the Redeemer’s name be sung      Through every land, by every tongue.      Alleluia! Alleluia!       Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!      Eternal are your mercies, Lord;      Eternal is your glorious Word.      Alleluia! Alleluia!      Your praise shall sound from shore to shore      Till suns shall rise and set no more.      Alleluia! Alleluia!      Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!   Amen. Luke 10:1 –20 A fter this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by two ahead of him to every town and place where he was about to go....