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Meditating on the Suffering of Jesus-2

We continue to meditate on the suffering of Jesus for us through this season of Lent. Here we pray the beginning portion of Johann Starck’s prayer from his Prayer Book. Source: Starck’s Prayer-Book, by Johann Starck (translated and edited by W. H. T. Dau, 1921), pages 108-109. http://media.blubrry.com/sacredmeditations/sacredmeditations.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/JSPB014-Meditating-on-the-Suffering-of-Jesus-2.mp3Podcast: Play in …

Meditating on the Suffering of Jesus-1

“For our sake [God] made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God” (2 Corinthians 5:21). Here Johann Starck exhorts us on how and why we meditate on the sufferings of Jesus during Lent. Source: Starck’s Prayer-Book, by Johann …

Prayer to God, the Highest Good

After exhorting us on how God–not wealth, nor honor, nor wisdom and skill–is our highest good (Listen here.), Johann Starck leads us in praying to the Triune God who alone is our “highest, dearest, truest, and very best good.” Source: Starck’s Prayer-Book, by Johann Starck (translated and edited by W. …