Prayer of St John IDE etcKoo tts O Lord, Lover of men, is this bed to be my coffin, or wilt Thou enlighten my wretched soul with another day? Here the coffin lies before me, and here death confronts me. I fear, O Lord, Thy Judgment and the endless torments, yet I cease not to do evil. My Lord God, I continually anger Thee, and Thy immaculate Mother, and all the Heavenly Powers, and my holy Guardian Angel. I know, O Lord, that I am unworthy of Thy love, but deserve condemnation and every torment. , But, whether I want it or not, save me, O Lord. For to save a good man is no great thing, and to have mercy on the pure is nothing wonderful, for they are worthy of Thy mercy. But show the wonder of Thy mercy on me, a sinner. In this reveal Thy love for men, lest my wickedness prevail over Thy unutterable goodness and mercy. And order my life as Thou wilt.Meanile Moss was tending he Ook oh athena Ja, he pret of Mian, Leading the ock srs the doe he came to Hore, the mountin of God. There an angel ofthe LORD appeared to him in fe Naming out of @ bush. AS he looked on, be was surprised to see thatthe bush, though on fire, was not consumed. So Moses decided, "I must go over fo Jook at this remarkable sigh, and see why the bush is not burned." When the LORD sew him coming over to look a it more Closely, God called oat to im from the bush, "Moses! Moses!" He answered, "Here Iam." God seid, "Come no near! Remove the sandals from your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground. T am the God of your father.” continued, "the God of Abeahum, the God of Isan, the God of Jacob.” Moses hid his foe, for he was afraid to look at God. But the LORD said, "Ihave witnessed the affiction of my people in Egypt and have heard ther ery of complaint against their lave drivers, so I know well what they are suffering. Therefore T have come down to reseve ther from the hands of the Heyptians and lead thom ont of that land into good and spacious land, a land lowing with milk and honey, the country of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amortes, Perizztes, Hivites and Jebusites. So indeed the ery of the Israelites has reached me, and I have traly noted that the Eeyptians are oppressing them. Come, now! Iwill send yor to Pharaoh to lead my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt." But Moses said to God, "Who am T that I should go to Pharaoh and lead the Ieaelites out of Egypt?" He answered, "I will be with you; and this shall be your proof that it is I who have sent you: when you bring my people out of Egypt, you will worship Gad on this very mountain.” "But," said Moses to God, "when Igo tothe Israclites 7) and say to them, "The God of your fathers has sent me to you, if they ask me,'What is his name what am Ito tell them?" | God replied, "Tam who am." Thon he adied, "This is what yon shall rel theTsmelites: TAM sent me to you." God spoke | farther to Moses, "Thus shall you say tothe Israelites: The LORD, the God of your fathers the God of Abraham, the God of 1 Tsaze, the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. "This is my name forever; this is my title forall generations. "Go and assemble ¢ the elders ofthe Tsacites, and tell them: The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, has appeared to me and sai: Tam concemed bout you and about the way you are being treated in Egypt; so Thave decided t0 | lead you up out ef the misery of Egypt into the land ofthe Canaanites,Hittes, Amorites, Prizits, Hivites and Jebustes, a | Jand flowing with mili and boney. "Thus they wll hed your message. Then you and the elders of Irae] shall go tothe king 4 of Egypt and say to him: The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, hos scot us word, Permit us, then, to go a three days! journey + in the desen, that we may offer sacrifice to the LORD, our God. "Yet know thatthe king of Egypt will not allow you to g0 + unless he is forced. Iwill stretch out my hand, therefore, and smite Egypt by doing all kinds of wondrous deeds there. After 4 tat he wil send you away. Zwileven make the Egyptians so weldaposd toward this people that, when you leave, you | wil not go empty-handed. Every woman shall ask her acighbor and her house guest for silver and gold articles and for * clothing t put on your sons and daughters, Thus you will despoil the Egyptians."Exodus 12:1-20 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, “This month shall stand at the head of your ‘calendar; you shall reckon it the first month of the year, Tell the whole community of Israel: On the tenth of | this month every one of your families must procure for itself a lamb, one apiece for each household, Tf a” family is too small for a whole lamb, it shal join the nearest housebold in procuring one and shall share in the Jamb in proportion to the number of persons who partake of it. ‘The lamb must be a year-old male and ‘without blemish. You may take it from either the sheep or the goats. You shall keep it until the fourteenth day ‘of this month, and then, with the whole assembly of Israel present, it shall be slaughtered during the evening | ‘twilight. They shall take some of its blood and apply it to the two doorposts and the lintel of every house in ‘which they partake of the lamb. That same night they shall eat its roasted flesh with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. It shall not be eaten raw or boiled, but roasted whole, with its head and shanks and inner organs. ‘None of it must be kept beyond the next morning; whatever is left over in the morning shall be burned up. "This is how you are to eat it: with your loins girt, sandals on your feet and your staff in hand, you shall eat like those who are in flight, It is the Passover of the LORD. For on this same night I will go through Egypt, striking down every first--bom of the land, both man and beast, and executing judgment on all the gods of Egypt, the LORD! But the blood will mark the houses where you are. Seeing the blood, I will pass over —_ ‘you; thus, when I strike the land of Egypt, no destructive blow will come upon you. "This day shall be a memorial feast for you, which all your generations shall celebrate with pilgrimage to the LORD, as + perpetual institution. For seven days you must cat unleavened bread. From the very first day you shall have ‘your houses clear of all leaven. Whoever eats leavened bread from the first day to the seventh shall be cut off from Israel. On the first day you shall hold a sacred assembly, and likewise on the seventh. On these days ‘you shall not do any sort of work, except to prepare the food that everyone needs. "Keep, then, this custom. of the unleavened bread. Since it was om this very day that I brought your ranks out of the land of Egypt, you | must celebrate this day throughout your generations as a perpetual institution. From the evening of the fourteenth day of the first month until the evening of the twenty-first day of this month you shall eat ‘unleavened bread. For seven days no leaven may be found in your houses. Anyone, be he a resident alien or | @ native, who eats leavened food shall be cut off from the community of Israel. Nothing leavened may you ‘eat; wherever you dwell you may eat only unleavened bread.”Exodus 20:1-20 ‘Then God delivered all these commandments: "I, the LORD, am your God, who brought you out of | the land of Egypt, that place of slavery. You shall not have other gods besides me. You shall not carve idols for yourselves in the shape of anything in the sky above or on the earth below or in the waters beneath the earth; you shall not bow down before them or worship them. For I, the LORD, your God, am a jealous God, inflicting punishment for their fathers’ wickedness on the children of those who hate me, down to the third and fourth generation; but bestowing mercy down to the thousandth generation, on the children of those who love me and keep my commandments. "You shall not take the name of the LORD, your God, in vain. For the LORD will not leave unpunished + him who takes his name in vain. "Remember to keep holy the sabbath day. Six days you may Jabor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD, your God. No work may be done then either by you, or your son or daughter, or your male or female slave, or your beast, or by the alien who lives with you. In six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them; but on the seventh day he rested. That is why the LORD has blessed the sabbath day and made it holy. "Honor your father and your mother, that you may have a long, | life in the land which the LORD, your God, is giving you. "You shall not kill. “You shall not ) commit adultery. "You shall not steal. "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. “"You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male | or female slave, nor his ox or ass, nor anything else that belongs to him." When the people ‘witnessed the thunder and lightning, the trumpet blast and the mountain smoking, they all feared ) and trembled. So they took up a position much farther away and said to Moses, "You speak to us, and we will listen; but let not God speak to us, or we shall die." Moses answered the people, "Do © not be afraid, for God has come to you only to test you and put his fear upon you, lest you should sin."