Sacred Meditations

We have heard Johann Arndt meditate on loving God from a pure heart. (Listen here.) In today’s meditation, Arndt explores what he calls “neighbor-love” and how it relates to loving God. Source: Devotions and Prayers of Johann Arndt, selected and translated by John Joseph Stoudt, pages 36-37 (Meditation from Arndt’s …

We pray to God who sent His Son into this world to destroy the works of the devil, and we ask Him to make us pure as He is pure, so that we may be made like Him when He comes again. Collect for Proper 27 (the Sunday closest to …

God has filled the world with wondrous beauty. We pray that He would open our eyes to behold all that He worked with His gracious hand and to rejoice in His creation. “For Joy in God’s Creation,” from The Book of Common Prayer (adapted).

Our Lord Jesus teaches us two great commandments: first, to love God with every fiber of our being, and second, to love our neighbor as ourselves (see Matthew 22:34-40). In today’s meditation, Johann Arndt explores how we love from a pure heart. Source: Devotions and Prayers of Johann Arndt, selected …

Only by God’s gift we can offer Him true and laudable service. So we pray that our gracious God may grant us to run without stumbling toward His heavenly promises. Collect for Proper 26 (the Sunday closest to November 2), from The Book of Common Prayer.

Our eternal Lord God holds all souls in life. We pray that He would give His light and peace to His Church in paradise and on earth. We also pray that He would grant that, having followed the examples of the faithful departed, we would at the last enter with …

God has knit together His elect people into one communion in the mystical body of His Son Jesus Christ. We pray that He would give us grace to follow His blessed saints in all virtuous and godly living, that we may come to those unspeakable joys of His eternal kingdom. …

We pray that God would increase in us His gifts of faith, hope, and charity (love), and that we may love what He commands so that we may obtain what He promises. Collect for Proper 25 (the Sunday closest to October 26), from The Book of Common Prayer.

God has created us in His own image. So we pray that He would grant us grace to contend against evil and make no peace with oppression. “For Social Justice,” from The Book of Common Prayer.

In a previous meditation, Johann Starck led us in acknowledging the constant goodness of God (Listen here.). In today’s meditation, we pray with Starck as we thank and praise God for His goodness through all our life. Source: Starck’s Prayer-Book, by Johann Starck (translated and edited by W. H. T. …