Fr.
Tony’s Mid-week Message
May 21,
2014
A
Gelasian Prayer
One of
my CREDO classmates sent me the following prayer, from the ancient Gelasian
Sacramentary. I wanted to share it with
you since it seemed to speak to many concerns parishioners have raised with me
over the last two years about the sometimes bewildering world we live in:
“When I behold the problems of the world, O
Lord, I pray not to be tempted to quick answers. When every tongue, declares a
different Truth, when every people praises its own Righteousness, let me pause
before I speak or praise or hope. Let me look inward seeking to discover
eternal truths implanted there by You; truths greater than those heard in the outer multitude of voices and words. And let
me remember always that to be loud is not to be right, to be strange is not to
be forbidden, to be new is not to be frightful, to be black is not to be ugly.
Thus let me find truths true to You, that I may live with them, and You, and
myself, in peace.”
--Gelasian Sacramentary 6th-8th centuries,
adapted from The Little Book of Prayers [Peter
Piper Press].
Grace and Peace,
Fr. Tony+ 
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