Seventh Sunday After Epiphany

Oratio, Visio Divina, and Crumbs from our Master's Table

Oratio

A Prayer from Basil the Great

O Lord our God, teach us, we ask you, to ask you aright for the right blessings. Steer the vessel of our life toward yourself, you tranquil haven of all storm-tossed souls. Show us the course wherein we should go. Renew a willing spirit within us. Let your Spirit curb our wayward senses, and guide and enable us unto that which is our true good, to keep your laws, and in all our works evermore to rejoice in your glorious and gladdening presence. For yours is the glory and praise from all your saints, for ever and ever. Amen.¹

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Visio Divina

Visio Divina is a way of entering our prayer closet through sensible perception.

Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee (1633), Rembrandt van Rijn

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Crumbs From Our Master’s Table

All Manner of Unrighteousness

Practicing and Approving Sin

Every One of You Who Judges

Do you Suppose That You Will Escape The Judgment of God?

What God's Kindness Meant

A Cursed Treasure

1. Thomas C. Oden and Cindy Crosby, eds., Ancient Christian Devotional: A Year of Weekly Readings: Lectionary Cycle A (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Books, 2007), 67.