FURSA IN LENT: Day Thirty-One
From Be Thou My Breastplate, by Paul Wallis Let the good of God and of neighbor be in these feet. (Fursa’s Breastplate) Jesus Christ referred to his own teaching as the “narrow way.” It is often the...
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From Be Thou My Breastplate, by Paul Wallis Let the good of God and of neighbor be in these feet. (Fursa’s Breastplate) Today, as in Fursa’s day, it is often the moving and going of our brothers and...
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From Be Thou My Breastplate, by Paul Wallis May the Holy Spirit dwell in this heart. (Fursa’s Breastplate) The ancient Celts loved the Psalms. They resonated with the earthly emotionality of the...
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From Be Thou My Breastplate, by Paul Wallis May the Holy Spirit dwell in this heart. (Fursa’s Breastplate) The son of God taught us saying: “If you love me, keep my commandments and I will pray the...
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From Be Thou My Breastplate, by Paul Wallis May the Holy Spirit dwell in this heart. (Fursa’s Breastplate) The heart is the seat of our emotions. At least we conceive of it that way. In this line of...
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From Be Thou My Breastplate, by Paul Wallis And let this person belong entirely to God. (Fursa’s Breastplate) In the time before the first Christian missionaries came, the religion of the people of...
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From Be Thou My Breastplate, by Paul Wallis And let this person belong entirely to God. (Fursa’s Breastplate) Fursa belonged entirely to God in a monastic kind of way. He lived a celibate life in the...
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From Be Thou My Breastplate, by Paul Wallis And let this person belong entirely to God. (Fursa’s Breastplate) In the one who prays this lorica sincerely, Fursa does not want to present God with a monk,...
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From Be Thou My Breastplate, by Paul Wallis And let this person belong entirely to God. (Fursa’s Breastplate) To the contemporary mind, praying Fursa’s Breastplate may seem like a symbolic act. But...
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From Be Thou My Breastplate, by Paul Wallis And let this person belong entirely to God. (Fursa’s Breastplate) Over the past 40 days we have learned that Fursa was a person who belonged entirely to God...
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