Good Friday morning, my friends.
I had never heard of the Didache until I read this prayer this morning. According to Wikipedia, the Didache or The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles (Didachē means "Teaching") is a brief early Christian treatise, dated by most scholars to the late first or early 2nd century. The first line of this treatise is "Teaching of the Lord to the Gentiles (or Nations) by the Twelve Apostles".
I love the way this prayer envisions "the church" as "the one that has been sanctified" as if we were all truly one body. For that, after all, is what Jesus commissioned us to be.
Grace and peace be yours in abundance,
Bruce
We give you thanks, Holy Father, for your holy name which you have caused to dwell in our hearts, and for the knowledge and faith and immortality which you have made known to us through Jesus your servant; to you be the glory forever.
You, almighty Master, created all things for your name's sake, and gave food and drink to men to enjoy, that they might give you thanks; but to us you have graciously given spiritual food and drink, and eternal life through your servant [Jesus]. Above all we give thanks because you are mighty; to you be the glory forever.
Remember your church, Lord, to deliver it from all evil and to make it perfect in your love; and gather it, the one that has been sanctified, from the four winds into your kingdom, which you have prepared for it; for yours is the glory forever.
May grace come, and may this world pass away.
(from the Didache by way of http://bobhostetler.blogspot.ca/2014/03/a-prayer-from-didache.html)
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