FROM LANCELOT ANDREWES
Thou that givest food to all flesh,
which feedest the young ravens that cry
unto thee
and hast nourished us from our youth up:
fill our hearts with good and gladness
and establish our hearts with thy grace.
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Take away, O Lord, the veil of my heart
while I read the scriptures.
Blessed art thou, O Lord: O teach me thy
statutes!
Give me a word, O Word of the
Father: touch my heart:
enlighten the understandings of my heart:
open my lips and fill them with thy praise.
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Finished and perfected,
so far forth as is in our power,
O Christ our God,
is the mystery of thy dispensation.
For we have held the remembrance of thy
death,
we have seen the figure of thy
resurrection,
we have been filled with thine unending
life,
we have had fruition of thine
inexhaustible delight,
whereof in the world to come withal
be Thou pleased
that we all
be accounted worthy.
In Christ's love, Fr. Robert Pax
