General (Vol. 1)

Article Sections

Contents

  1. The Drama of Life
  2. River of Baptising Water
  3. Faith, Hope and Love
  4. God's Earth
  5. Nicodemus
  6. Wedding
  7. Relationships
  8. Mothers
  9. Forgiveness
  10. Testaments
  11. The Bethanies
  12. Retrenchment
  13. Donkeys
  14. Learning
  15. Catastrophe
  16. Mercy
  17. Shepherd
  18. The Trinity and its Virtues
  19. Lamb and Shepherd
  20. Peter's Burden
  21. Grandmother
  22. Confirmation
  23. The Way, The Truth and The Life
  24. Puzzles
  25. Comfort
  26. Bethlehem's Legacy
  27. The Church on Earth
  28. Mary's Pentecost
  29. Prayer
  30. Always
  31. Power
  32. Trinity
  33. Responsibility
  34. Strength
  35. Everyone Can Call Upon Jesus
  36. Unity
  37. Jesu of the Desert
  38. Judgment
  39. Sacrifice
  40. Pressure
  41. God in Us
  42. Vocation
  43. Commitment
  44. Jesus of All the Ages
  45. The Spiral
  46. Commendations
  47. Retreat
  48. Lamb, Child, Servant, Shepherd, Priest
  49. The Path
  50. For Victims of Human Failure

Wedding

Part i

  1. We bring our tears before You
    On our day of happiness,
    As we will bring our sorrows
    In the knowledge You will bless
    Our love for one another
    And our striving to love you:
    Today we bring our tears
    For all our married years.

  2. We bring our joy before You,
    In the faith that it will last
    But seeking Your protection
    When skies are overcast
    And we are in a chasm
    Of another kind of blue:
    Today we bring the joy
    No other can destroy.

  3. We bring our love before You
    On the day we cannot rest
    From seeing Your love for us
    In the face we love the best,
    So that what we are together
    May be even more to You:
    We bring our love today;
    There's nothing more to say.

Part ii.

  1. We have made our promise,
    We have given our heart,
    We have pledged in honour
    That we will not part:
    But all we have given
    With all the faith we know
    Will only count in Heaven
    If our lives proclaim it so.

  2. We have chosen sorrow
    If that is Your will
    And we have chosen courage
    If we are poor or ill:
    But You are smiling on us
    Especially today:
    As we focus on the easier
    Things You have to say.

  3. We approach your altar
    Determined to adore
    Now we have each other
    More than ever before:
    May our joy together
    Embrace and not exclude,
    Bringing us much closer
    To Your body and Your blood.

Part iii.

  1. Let us go out into the world,
    Bound by the blessing of Our Father,
    Consoled by Jesus Christ our brother,
    Cleansed by the Spirit's sacred ardour:
    Let us go out into the world.

  2. Let us go into our new life,
    Confirmed in the resilience of faith,
    Restored by the tenacity of Hope,
    Empowered by the integrity of love.
    Let us go into our new life.