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Personal Prayers > Death
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For What is Thine is Ours Always
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We seem to give him back to you, dear God, who gave him to us. Yet, as you did not loose him in giving, so we have not lost him by his return. Not as the world gives, give, you O Lover of souls! What you give, you take not away. For what is thine is ours always. And life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight. Lift us up, strong Son of God, that we may see further. Draw us closer to you that we may know ourselves nearer to our beloved who is with thee. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen
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(Submitted by Cal Wick)
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Death
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Death is not extinguishing the light.
It is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
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Tagore -- Uncommon Prayers for the Third Millennium, Alan Houghton
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A Father's Prayer Upon the Murder of his Son
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O God,
We remember not only Bahram but also his murderers;
Not because they killed him in the prime of his youth
And made our hearts bleed and our tears flow.
Not because with this savage act they have brought
further disgraced on the name of our country among
the civilized world;
But because through their crime we now follow thy foot-
steps more closely in the way of sacrifice.
The terrible fire of the calamity burns up all selfishness
and possessiveness in us;
Its flame reveals the depth of depravity and meanness
and suspicion, the dimension of hatred and the
measure of sinfulness in human nature;
It makes obvious as never before our need to trust in
God’s love as shown in the cross of Jesus and his
resurrection;
Love which makes us free from hate towards our
persecutors;
Love which brings patience, forbearance, courage,
loyalty, humility, generosity of heart;
Love which more than ever deepens our trust in God’s
final victory and his eternal designs for the Church
and for the world;
Love which teaches us how to prepare ourselves to face
our own day of death.
O God,
Barhram’s blood has multiplied the fruit of the Spirit
in the soil of our souls;
So when his murderers stand before thee on the day of
judgment
Remember the fruit of the Spirit by which they have
enriched our lives.
And Forgive
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H.B. Dehqani -- Tafti – The Hard Awakening, Anglican Bishop of Iran at the time of the fall or the Shah, on the murder of his son Bahram in Iran shortly after the Islamic Revolution
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