Do You Remember My Syrophenician Friend?

Few weeks ago we dwelled together on the fabulous faith of the lady in Mark 7 who "wouldn't let Jesus go". And he loved her tenacity!

Well, hundreds of years later Thomas Cranmer wrote a Communion Prayer that was influenced by her... and tomorrow we'll pray it together.

We do not presume to come to this Your table, O merciful Lord, trusting in our own righteousness, but in Your manifold and great mercies. We are not worthy so much as to gather up the crumbs under Your table. But You are the same Lord, who always shows mercy; grant us therefore, gracious Lord, so to eat the flesh of Your dear Son Jesus Christ, and to drink of His blood, that our sinful bodies may be made clean by His body, and our souls washed through His most pre-cious blood, and that we may evermore dwell in Him, and He in us. Amen.