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Prayers of Julian of Norwich
The Morning Office
Preparation
Lord, grant me three wounds in my life: the wound of true contrition,
the wound of natural compassion and the wound of sincere longing
for you.^147
I praise you, Lord God, for you rejoice to be our Father, to be our
mother and to be our true spouse, our soul dearly loved.
I praise you that Christ is glad to be our brother and our Saviour.
And with all the redeemed, I praise; thanking, loving, and endlessly
blessing him. In this life we find in ourselves an amazing mixture of
good and bad, yet we have the Lord Jesus, risen from death. There is
in us the misery and mischief of human falling and dying, but we are
steadily and surely kept by Christ and by his touch of grace we are
raised into secure trust of salvation.
For this grace in Christ I praise you, Lord God.^148
The Psalm(s)
Glory to the Father......