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Holy Thursday. Lord Have Mercy.

1 Comment / April 9, 2020

The Latin phrase Kyrie Eleison is translated to “Lord have mercy” in English. The power and need for this prayer from the church has become more valuable and more needed than ever. When we are at our weakest, we are most aware of our need for mercy. In America, we have deified love. We say […]

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One response to “Holy Thursday. Lord Have Mercy.”

Júlio Bastos

April 13, 2020

My dear brother.
Thanks for the article. For some years now I have been studying the Bible more and especially OT. I am saddened to see how a part of Christianity idolizes the love of God and does not know and worship God as He really is. Some even go so far as to suggest that the OT God is not like the NT God, as if God has changed! What I have discovered in the OT is a God full of love, with so much mercy, but also with justice and He deserves to be adored for both! Nebuchadnezzar understood this so well after the hard experience with God and praised him for it (4: 2,37)
With the covid19 I saw something revealing: the churches in China to fast and cry out to God for mercy for them and for the nations. Many churches did the same in the Western world, but many (many realy) also, like little gods, decided to make decrees that the end would come on a specific day. Have we forgotten that we are dust, loved by God, but dust? “Lord, have mercy” has been a prayer repeated many times these days. “The sacrifices for God are the broken spirit; you will not despise a broken and contrite heart, O God.” Psalm 51:17 God bless you – Júlio Bastos (Portugal)