Proper 19 Year C

Proper 19

Jeremiah 4.11–28
1 Timothy 1.12–17
Luke 15.1–10

In a recent article, a priest from another tradition described the cheerful mixture of spiritualities which made up his regular personal prayer. It was a vivid and moving account of a busy man nourishing and cherishing a sense of God’s presence through thick and thin. But at the end my blood ran cold. He often failed, he said; ‘but since the Lord has enabled me to base myself on this structure of prayer’, he concluded, ‘I hope and believe He will save me, as and when He chooses.’...