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Thursday, January 26, 2017

Today we commemorate Timothy, Titus, and Silas companions of St. Paul,*

                                           Friday Collect



Mercifully grant that we,walking 
in the way 
of the cross, 
may find it 
none other 
than the way of life and peace 
a living reminder that Christianity is not a  solitary business. “After Paul's death, Timothy & Titus oversaw the chur- ches transition from its first missionary preaching to a new century in which it would settle into en-during communities, face persecution, and clarify its teaching ... They both died bearing witness to the Gospel: Timothy in Ephesus, Titus in Crete.
(From Give Us This Day) Silas is not in this image - the guy on the right is Paul. Silas has been recently added in. He too is customarily honored as a martyr. 

Pray today for recon-
iliation and open heart
-edness, for Christ 
-ians in Turkey, for the Greek Orthodox Church in Turkey and Crete, and  for the knowledge that  "it is not we who speak, but the Lord speaks in us and through us." (based on an essay by Wilhelm Löeh.)




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