Ruach Breath Of Life

Connections Track 14 Prayers by Richard Rolle and Bishop of Chichester Back in the fourteenth century, while studying for the priesthood at Oxford, Richard Rolle came to hate the way his teachers spoke about God as if we were an intellectual concept rather than a living person. He went to live as a hermit on the Yorkshire moors, and came to know God in a deep and intimate way. He subsequently toured the country, praying for the people he met, and singing to them out of the sweetness he had experienced in the presence of the Lord. This is one of his prayers. I ask you, Lord Jesus, to inspire within me, Your lover, an affection that is unbounded, a desire that is unrestrained, and a yearning that throws discretion to the winds. May reason not hold my love in check. May fear not inhibit my devotion. May decorum not temper my fervour. The sweetness of Your love, my Beloved, so vastly exceeds the pleasure of any earthly joys that if those who lust after the things of this world and who know nothing of the del