O God, You have set us in the train of many martyrs and holy people: and given us, as author and finisher of our faith, one who offered Himself up a living and dying sacrifice.
We are not our own, but Yours.
Freely may we crucify our shrinking will, surrender ourselves to the uttermost claims of Your Spirit, and seek no peace but in harmony with You.
Amen.
--James Martineau, in Evelyn Underhill's Prayer Book, ed. by Evelyn Underhill, English mystic and spiritual teacher
Photo: The Passion side exterior of La Sagrada Familia, Barcelona
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