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Our Morning Offering – 6 September

O Lord, take away my heart of stone
By Archbishop Baldwin of Canterbury (d 1190)

O Lord, take away my heart of stone,
my hardened heart
and grant to me a new heart,
a heart of flesh, a clean heart.
Come, You who cleanse the heart
and love the pure of heart,
possess my heart and dwell in it,
containing it and filling it,
higher than the highest
and more intimate
than my most intimate thoughts.
You are the image of all beauty
and the seal of all holiness,
seal Your image on my heart
and seal my heart in Your mercy.
O God, the strength of my heart
and my portion forever.
Amen