#church unity

Lord Jesus, teach me to love Your people the way You love Your Church. Heal what divides us. Unite us in Your Spirit. Let Your table be our meeting place again. Amen.

They prayed and got everything ready for Communion/Holy Eucharist and i started to get emotional again because i knew i needed to partake in that. they gave us a little wafer with the Moravian lamb logo on it (look it up because it's very cool but it didn't have the slogan on it). i dipped my wafer in the wine and lowkey that wine was so sweet and good i was like "okayyyyyyy!". but that was pretty much the end of service. i don't remember what happened after that, but they had someone over by the baptismal font if anyone needed prayer and i went because i knew i needed it. i waited in line and was tearing up and one of the ladies from before (i think the reverend?) asked me if she could pray for me and i told her she could. so i told her a little bit of what was going on. i don't remember exactly what she even prayed for me but basically something along the lines of food being a blessing to my body instead of working against me. it was very sweet and i really appreciated that and asked if i could give her a hug. immediately afterwards, i became hungry again. now why that is important is this: my poor relationship with food has been VERY BAD all week and it's the worst it's been for me mentally regarding that and my lack of appetite. i was able to eat lunch today but i got full very fast and felt sick and tired afterwards. but i don't know the simple prayer she did for me was very special to me because i could feel my peace, joy and freedom coming back to me. during service i kept feeling the presence of the Holy Spirit on my forehead like a kiss and Him pressing on my heart with His hand and the same feeling when i got in the car. i just sat quietly in the back seat for a long while and i was in prayer and thanking God for that. i felt like i could just breathe for once in a while and like everything was okay in that moment - like i was being protected. even if it was just for a few moments oh my gosh it was so peaceful and relieving. i know this healing journey is still gonna take so long and have so many ups and downs as it has already proven to be in this last month, but i know i am not stuck unhealed forever. i think i got my hope back again. HIs love, comfort and care is so precious and i love the way He uses us to display those things 🥹❤️‍🩹

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However, if you are careful you can enjoy their pleasant smell and their God-breathed beauty (a.k.a. Byzantine hymns and poetry, Orthodox art, Protestant apologists, Anglican hymns, Catholic masses, Lamentations during Good Friday in an orthodox church, the splendour that comes from the the organ in Protestant and Catholic churches during mass, Orthodox church fathers’ writtings etc) without getting hurt.

Almighty and everlasting God, by Whose judgement all things are established, mercifully regard our prayers, and in Thy goodness preserve the Bishop chosen for us: that the Christian people who are ruled by Thine authority, may under so great a Pontiff, be increased in the merits of faith.  Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.