"Jesus and Abba Menas. A 6th-century icon from the Monastery of Bawit in Middle Egypt, currently at the Louvre. It is one of the oldest icons in existence."
A print of this icon sits in the front of our class this week.
A Prayer of the Program in Christian Spirituality Community
Creating God:
you stretch wide the heavens
and open the human heart
to receive more and more of your love.
Your Spirit has enlarged our spirits
by drawing us together into this community
of prayer and listening,
hospitality and learning,
compassion and justice –
and we are grateful.
Keep stretching us by your grace
so that we may see, hear, and embrace
the new things you are doing.
Free us to be who you want us to be
so that we may love and serve one another,
our families and communities,
this seminary and the church,
the creation itself,
and you who are within and beyond everything.
We lean on your wisdom and grace
embodied so richly in Jesus Christ
in whose name we pray. Amen.
