Offsite Post: ‘Missionary Fieldhands’

 

Diuma among the Mercians;

Budoc in Ireland and Brittany;

Gunthild the servant of the Germans –

Missionaries in the Master’s fields,

Harvesting the ripe grain,

Fertilizing and watering the young shoots,

Clearing the soil of the rocks and weeds

Of idolatry and false teaching,

And sowing the splendid Gospel seed –

This is how you spent your lives,

Sometimes far from home.

In Heaven now, your work has ceased,

But your love has not.  So we pray,

“Enlarge your heart, include the South;

Make us also a fertile field

For the Father, . . .

The rest is at https://southernorthodox.org/missionary-fieldhands/.

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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!

Anathema to the Union!