Litany

And this day, may her intercession deliver unto us God's peace beyond all understanding, and may that peace last throughout the coming years.

This litany comes to us from Word on Fire.

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

So I was really encouraged by just your testimony of experiencing that.

And yes, your honesty about anger and how hard it is to process something so painful and And there was something that came to my mind when I read your question, like, not just today, but when I read it, that it had been submitted, that I wanted to share with you was a devotional on the Stations of the Cross that was... recommended in the book Litanies of the Heart.

It's called The Way, and then the subtitle is Stations of the Cross for Survivors of Abuse.

And it's written by Sue Stubbs.

Um, are there any other books or resources that help you when you're discouraged, like spiritual resources other than scripture, of course, which you also mentioned, Taylor?

Yeah, I was thinking of the, there's the Litany of Trust and the Litany of Humility I think are excellent ones to help you in those seasons.

Hmm.

Just very concrete prayers that you can turn to.

And I give you one example for time's sake, and that's the Holy Trinity, the doctrine of the Holy Trinity.

When the church met in council and codified the language for the Holy Trinity and for the incarnation of our Lord over the course of several centuries in the ecumenical councils, that teaching was the teaching of scripture as it had been received by the fathers, even though there's lots of contention before they finalize it on, on paper in, in a conciliar manner with decrees, and then enforce its belief through liturgical observance like the, the rece- recitation of the Nicene Creed, right? Uh, so that's day-to-day, but look at how the day-to-day element there is necessary.

So if someone says they don't believe in the Trinity, they're not Christians.

And if they can give you a list of Bible verses, a catena of verses and lists from the early church fathers, if they even go that far, well, now they just become, um, how can I say? Th- they're part of the ancient church heresies.

He's completely God.

And to call Mary the Theotokos is not to say that she's the mother of the Holy Trinity, but that she's the mother of the second person." And then Nestorius is rebuked for his innovation, and it is an innovation.

And in the Council of Ephesus in 431, the church codifies that language authoritatively for all Christians for all times.

Yes, for all Christians for all times.

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Part five, The Litany.

Sonnet one.

The Father.