Being and Doing – 14 October – The Communion of Saints

LET US, then, learn that we can never be lonely or forsaken in this life.   Shall they forget us because they are ‘made perfect’?   Shall they love us the less because they now have power to love us more?   If we forget them not, shall they not remember us with God?   No trial, then, can isolate us, no sorrow can cut us off from the Communion of Saints.   Kneel down, and you are with them;  lift up your eyes, and the heavenly world, high above all perturbation, hangs serenely overhead;  only a thin veil, it may be, floats between.   All whom we loved, and all who loved us, whom we still love no less, while they love us yet more, are ever near, because ever in His presence in whom we live and dwell.

H. E. MANNING

O BLEST Communion! fellowship Divine !

We feebly struggle, they in glory shine; 

Yet all are one in Thee, for all are Thine.

Alleluia!

Bishop WALSHAM HOW

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These quotes are from ‘Being and Doing’ A selection of helpful thoughts from various authors arranged for daily reading.

Collected by Constance M Whishaw and first published in 1908 for members of the Being and Doing Guild whose object is to do all they can for the relief of suffering and misery.

Most of the writers are 19th Century Christians from Britain and Europe who were committed to living their faith through deeds as well as words – Being AND Doing.

For many years these words have kept me company and encouraged me on the journey of faith.  I hope they will encourage others also.