tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18902745.post8328229797483377938..comments2024-03-24T15:19:06.377-04:00Comments on The Continuum: Laymen's Guide to the Thirty-Nine ArticlesFr. Robert Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05892141425033196616noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18902745.post-69679267757309731232011-09-22T12:51:58.145-04:002011-09-22T12:51:58.145-04:00If there is any way whatever for finite human bein...<i>If there is any way whatever for finite human beings (even virtuous and saintly human beings) to earn a claim on God's goodness, we are in serious trouble.</i> - Fr. Wells.<br /><br />Amen to that. No mere poetic turn of phrase - the oft repeated words of the BCP, "through the merits of Christ Jesus our Savior."<br /><br />Twelfth Sunday after Trinity:<br />The Collect.<br />ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, who art always more ready to hear than we are to pray, and art wont to give more than either we desire, or deserve; Pour down upon us the abundance of thy mercy; forgiving us those things whereof our conscience is afraid, and <b>giving us those good things which we are not worthy to ask, but through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ, thy Son, our Lord. Amen.</b><br /><br />Thanks again, gentlemen...Jack Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18281378425270530573noreply@blogger.com