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To: Coleus

St. Ephrem rocks, if you ask me.


4 posted on 04/08/2006 6:25:38 PM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: Knitting A Conundrum; Coleus; Tax-chick

+Ephraim the Syrian is always worth reading. Monday nights during Great Lent, Orthodox Christians say this Lenten Prayer of +Ephraim during the devotion of the Great Compline. The prostrations mentioned are full body prostrations, by the way, and demonstrate where the Mohammadens got that prayer practice from.

"O Lord and Master of my life, drive away from me the spirit of despondency, negligence, avarice and idle talk. prostration.

But grant me, Thy servant, the spirit of chastity, humility, patience and love. prostration.

Yea, O Lord and king, grant me to see mine own transgressions, and not to judge my brother, for blessed art Thou unto the ages. Amen. prostration."


8 posted on 04/09/2006 4:24:57 AM PDT by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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