Author: myrtle&oil
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A Font of Blood, A Fount of Tears || St. Mary of Egypt
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My tears are sourced by Your blood, O Beloved. Each tear I shed onto Your feet, O Love, is sourced by a drop of Your blood which You shed for a sin which You erase from me. Precious is Your blood, O Holy One; and precious is Your redemption! A…
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Subterranean Streams
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I am a myrtle tree planted by this River I grow branches and blossoms teeming with Life I once was lost but now I’m found I once was parched but now I’m quenched Let him who thirsts come Come near to my branches and hear my mystery. . .
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The Heart Altar and the Sacrifice
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Lo, the Lord enters swiftly and silently into the Holy of Holies—the consecrated altar of the heart, the altar of flesh and not of stone. Behold, the Master enters, with fire in His eyes—the fire of jealous love.
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Martyrs Perpetua, Felicity, and Their Companions (202-203 AD)
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The glorious and profound biography of these martyrs is one that will ever be imprinted on my heart. I pray that it may also deeply impact you along your journey toward ever-increasing nearness to our Beloved Savior.
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When I Fall, I Will Arise
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Do the righteous fall? The answer is YES. The righteous may fall—and he may fall endless times in a single day—but what makes him righteous in the Lord’s all-knowing and merciful eyes is not that he never falls, but rather that after his fall, he rises again. . . WE…
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Perfect Articulation of the Heart
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Lord, to further know the deeper layers of how You created me is to look closer and closer in a mirror at Your awesome Person, full of the infinity of beauty and gifts. You are a creative God, a lovely God, a beautiful God.
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Lily of the Trinity
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Holy Mary, Holy Mother Your entreaties are as spring blossoms The stems of which shoot up from the earth The corollas of which flutter before the throne Of your Precious Son Ever-enduring Never-dying Always heeded
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Right-believing Tamara, Queen of Georgia
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“Lord Jesus Christ! Omnipotent Master of heaven and earth! To Thee I deliver the nation and people that were entrusted to my care and purchased by Thy Precious Blood, the children whom Thou didst bestow upon me, and to Thee I surrender my soul, O Lord!”