We are like the women who from

a distance watched the crucifixion.

All our foundations are shaken.

Too much we walk around in darkness,

having neither knowledge nor understanding.

Send us another way, not the way we came, O God.

Fill us with your love, full to overflowing;

let it overflow more and more with knowledge

and full insight to help us find the way that is best.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 5; 145; 82; 29

1 Kings 13:1-10

Phil. 1:1-11

Mark 15:40-47

Selected Verses

Ps. 82:5

[The gods in the divine council] have neither knowledge nor understanding,
they walk around in darkness;
all the foundations of the earth are shaken.

1 Kings 13:10

So [the man of God] went another way, and did not return by the way that he had come to Bethel.

Phil. 1:9-10a

And this is my prayer, that your love may overflow more and more with knowledge and full insight to help you to determine what is best…

Mark 15:40

There were also women looking on from a distance; among them were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salome.