The reading from a few days ago:
"With this we have advanced to the point at which we hear the heartbeat of all Christian life together.
A Christian community either lives by the intercessory prayers of its memebrs for one another or the community will be destroyed.
I can no longer condemn or hate other Christians for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble they cause me.
In intercessory prayer the face that may have been strange and intolerable to me is transformed into the face of one for whom Christ died, the face of a pardoned sinner…
Intercessory prayer is the purifying bath into which the individual and the community must enter every day".
(Life Together (Fortress, 1966), page 90.
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