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Most HOLY and Most Merciful ABBA...
We
confess to THEE and to one another and to the whole communion of saints
in Heaven and on earth and before Your Heavenly Host...
that we have sinned
by our own fault
in thought, word, and deed;
by what we have DONE
and by what we have
LEFT UN-DONE.
As it is written:
Thou
shalt love The LORD thy GOD, The ELOHIM, with ALL thy heart, with ALL
of thy soul, with ALL of thy mind, and with ALL thy strength.
This is the first and great commandment.
So now, we confess to THEE, O LORD:
We have not loved THEE with our whole heart...
NO RATHER,
we have set our hearts on other things, other persons, other loyalties. We are divided in our loyalty to THEE; only a "part" do we give to THEE, alas.
Yes,
we love THEE and Thy Holy SON+ JESUS, ... but we have mingled our
love of THEE with strange things that are NOT of THEE+. We have placed
strange fire upon Thy Altar, the altar of our hearts.
Cleanse
our hearts, O HOLY ONE+ of Israel, by the in-breathing of Thy Precious HOLY SPIRIT. Help us to separate ourselves unto THEE+ during this
season of the Preparation for the GREAT PASCHA, the Great Passover.
O
HOLY FATHER, HOLY ABBA... we ask Thy help to find all the leaven in our
house, in our temple, that we may make an offering to you in
Righteousness ... after we remove those hateful things from our midst.
What? know ye not . . .
that your body is the temple
of the HOLY SPIRIT
which is in you,
which ye have of GOD,
and ye
are not your own?
For ye are bought
with a PRICE+.
Therefore glorify GOD
in your body,
and in your spirit,
which are GOD'S.
1 Corinthians 6: 19 -20
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Create in me a clean heart,
O GOD and renew a right spirit within me.
Cast me not away
from Thy+ Presence;
and take not Thy HOLY SPIRIT
from me.
Restore unto me
the joy of Thy+ SALVATION;
and uphold me with Thy free spirit.
Psalm 51
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Ashes to ashes,
Dust to Dust
in sure and certain hope
of the Resurrection
unto Eternal Life,
through JESUS CHRIST
OUR LORD.
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Amen, and thankfully so !
