If that’s you, then pray as the disciples did. Maybe you’ve just lost a loved one, and you’re awash in a sea of grief. Perhaps you find yourself caught in a terrible, unrelenting depression. Perhaps you’re reading these words from your hospital bed where you are recovering painfully from surgery, or where you’ve just received some devastating news. Perhaps there are some people reading this right now who feel themselves in this precise situation. O Lord, be attentive to the voice of my pleading.”It is the prayer offered at the darkest times of life, when we feel utterly incapable of helping ourselves. Do you know the de profundis prayer? It comes from Psalm 130: “Out of the depths, I have cried to you, O Lord. Christ and the Storm Giorgio de Chirico, 1914ĭuring the storm, Jesus’ disciples cried out to the Lord in desperation: “Lord, save us! We are perishing!”This is a “ de profundis” prayer.
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