When Prayer Refuses to Flatter Us

An ancient prayer from Gelasian Sacramentary for guidance, light, love.

There is a kind of spiritual speech that sounds antique only because we have become so modern in our evasions. The older authors still know how to ask plainly.

So the invitation is simple: do not merely admire the sentence. Borrow it. Pray it until it starts telling the truth in your own voice.