Our Morning Offering – 5 November – “Month of the Holy Souls in Purgatory”
Come Jesus,
for My Feet are Soiled
By Origen of Alexandria (c 185-253)
Come Jesus,
for my feet are soiled.
Become once more,
a Servant for my sake.
Pour water into Your basin
and come and wash my feet.
I know these words of mine,
presume too much
and yet, I dread those
frightening Words of Yours,
“If I do not wash your feet,
you can have no part in me!”
Then wash my feet,
so that I belong to You.
Yet how can I dare to say,
“Wash my feet?”
Let Peter say so;
he needed only
to have his feet washed
For he was clean through and through.
I too have been washed once in Baptism
and yet, I need that other cleansing
that You spoke of,
when You said:
“I have another baptism to undergo;”
Cleanse me Lord thoroughly,
by Your saving Death.
Amen
Origen Adamantius (c 185-253)
Priest, Theologian, Exegist,
Writer, Apologist, Father
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