Glory and goodness

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Da Pacem Cordium

The Community of Taizé

Today is Monday the 1st of June, the feast of Saint Justin, in the 9th week of Ordinary Time.

The community of Taizé sing Da Pacem Cordium: “Give peace to our hearts”. As I listen, I might join in this prayer, asking the Lord for peace in my heart, asking God to help me still myself for a moment so that I can listen to his gentle voice, speaking to my heart.

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Today’s reading is from the Second Letter of Peter.

2 Peter 1:2-7

May grace and peace be yours in abundance in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.

His divine power has given us everything needed for life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. Thus he has given us, through these things, his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may escape from the corruption that is in the world because of lust, and may become participants in the divine nature. For this very reason, you must make every effort to support your faith with goodness, and goodness with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with endurance, and endurance with godliness, and godliness with mutual affection, and mutual affection with love.

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Gloria et in terra pax

The reading starts with a prayer that you receive an abundance of grace and peace. What do this “grace and peace” look like, in the context of your own life just now?

Next, we are assured that God has promised to give us everything we need for life and godliness. How do you respond to this promise?

Four times the reading speaks of the importance of knowledge of God. What kind of knowledge of God plays an important role in your own daily living?

The reading ends by presenting a whole interlocking pattern of the qualities that make up the good life of a disciple of Christ. As the passage is read again, notice which of these qualities you recognise in yourself already, and which you may want to ask God for.

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2 Peter 1:2-7

May grace and peace be yours in abundance in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.

His divine power has given us everything needed for life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. Thus he has given us, through these things, his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may escape from the corruption that is in the world because of lust, and may become participants in the divine nature. For this very reason, you must make every effort to support your faith with goodness, and goodness with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with endurance, and endurance with godliness, and godliness with mutual affection, and mutual affection with love.

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Finally, speak to the God who wants you to enjoy grace and peace about whatever has caught your attention in this time of prayer.

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Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.

As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be

World without end

Amen