IUGS 2024 Morning Prayer

My brother some of these young undergraduates who are steeped into Humanities would let you know that the poet of the ancient age Homer Penn The Iliad where he had in a throwaway line that essentially said he was a friend of man and lived in a house by the side of the

Road 19th century American poet Lau at Sam Walter FAL picked up on that and he pinned a poem that said there are hermit Souls that live withdrawn in the Peace of their self-content their are souls like stars that dwell apart in a fellows firmament there are Pioneer Souls that Blaze the

Paths where highways never ran but let me live by the side of the road and be a friend to man let me live in a house by the side of the road where the races of men go by men who are good and men who are bad as

Good and as bad as I oh I would not sit in the scorner seat nor hurl the sinner’s ban let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend of mine pray with me our father and our God We Gather here together with these men of

Omega stward men sturdy men steadfast men strong men some young other seasoned but men who are about the business of doing your holy will we’ve come this day to this place so that we might inculcate in these young Brothers of ours the best of who we

Are all that we know and all that we possess so that in days to come they might indeed take their rightful place among the leadership not just in Omega not just in the communities where they live and go and grow but in the whole world let something happen here today that

Sensitizes their hearts to the principles that guide each and every one of us that all of us while here remember the oath that was ours to take and the commitment that was ours to make Lord this is our prayer that we’re lifting up to you on the wings of the morning as

Men of Omega gathered together say amen amen

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