Post by theguvnor on Apr 15, 2023 18:56:34 GMT
Just got my final certificate for my MA today with the final mark. I was doing it under extreme tiredness and stress at points. I had COVID twice during it. Yet somehow I've managed to get a Merit grade. So thank you, God as at points keeping going was very tough and I felt very unwell when studying and very tired.
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to people of good will. We praise you, we bless you, we adore you, we glorify you, we give you thanks for your great glory, Lord God, heavenly King, O God, almighty Father. Lord Jesus Christ, Only Begotten Son, Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father, you take away the sins of the world
I'd also like to offer a prayer up for the subject of my dissertation Col. Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger who wrote under various names, but most famously as Cordwainer Smith. Hopefully, he and his cats are in a happier place. I certainly felt an odd connection with the man writing about him as though we had come to know each other. He is part of a small category of historical figures I'd have especially like to have met.
As Smith was Episcopalian and tended towards the High Anglican I am going to use this prayer from the Book of Common Prayer:
O LORD, with whom do live the spirits of them that be dead: and in whom the souls of them that be elected, after they be delivered from the burden of the flesh, be in joy and felicity: Grant unto us thy servant, that the sins which he committed in this world be not imputed unto him, but that he, escaping the gates of hell and pains of eternal darkness: may ever dwell in the region of height, with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, in the place where is no weeping, sorrow, nor heaviness: and when that dreadful day of the general resurrection shall come, make him to rise also with the just and righteous, and receive this body again to glory, then made pure and incorruptible, set him on the right hand of thy son Jesus Christ, among thy holy and elect, that then he may hear with them these most sweet and comfortable words: Come to me ye blessed of my father, possess the kingdom which hath been prepared for you from the beginning of the world: Graunt this we beseech thee, o merciful father: through Jesus Christ our mediator and redeemer. Amen.
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to people of good will. We praise you, we bless you, we adore you, we glorify you, we give you thanks for your great glory, Lord God, heavenly King, O God, almighty Father. Lord Jesus Christ, Only Begotten Son, Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father, you take away the sins of the world
I'd also like to offer a prayer up for the subject of my dissertation Col. Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger who wrote under various names, but most famously as Cordwainer Smith. Hopefully, he and his cats are in a happier place. I certainly felt an odd connection with the man writing about him as though we had come to know each other. He is part of a small category of historical figures I'd have especially like to have met.
As Smith was Episcopalian and tended towards the High Anglican I am going to use this prayer from the Book of Common Prayer:
O LORD, with whom do live the spirits of them that be dead: and in whom the souls of them that be elected, after they be delivered from the burden of the flesh, be in joy and felicity: Grant unto us thy servant, that the sins which he committed in this world be not imputed unto him, but that he, escaping the gates of hell and pains of eternal darkness: may ever dwell in the region of height, with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, in the place where is no weeping, sorrow, nor heaviness: and when that dreadful day of the general resurrection shall come, make him to rise also with the just and righteous, and receive this body again to glory, then made pure and incorruptible, set him on the right hand of thy son Jesus Christ, among thy holy and elect, that then he may hear with them these most sweet and comfortable words: Come to me ye blessed of my father, possess the kingdom which hath been prepared for you from the beginning of the world: Graunt this we beseech thee, o merciful father: through Jesus Christ our mediator and redeemer. Amen.
