Station Thirteen, Flight to Egypt

The Flight to Egypt - 474 Elmwood Rd.  Bay Village, OH 44140

Song - "Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence" by Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles

Flight Into Egypt by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld

 

When they had departed, behold an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, "Rise, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you..."   Matthew 2:13

Prayer

"Some Definite Service" by John Henry Cardinal Newman

God knows me and calls me by my name...
God has created me to do Him some definite service;
He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another.

I have my mission-
I never may know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next. 
Somehow I am necessary for His purposes... I have a part in this great work;
I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. 
He has not created me for naught.  

I shall do good, I shall do His work;
I shall be an angel of peace, a preacher of truth in my own place, while not intending it, 

    if I do but keep His commandments and serve Him in my calling. 

Therefore, I will trust Him.  Whatever, wherever I am, I can never be thrown away. 
If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him;
In perplexity, my perplexity may serve Him;
If I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him.
My sickness, or perplexity, or sorrow may be necessary causes of some great end, 

    which is quite beyond us.  
He does nothing in vain;

He may prolong my life, He may shorten it; He knows what He is about.
He may take away my friends, He may throw me among strangers, 

He may make me feel desolate, make my spirits sink, hide the future from me- 

    still He knows what He is about...

Let me be Thy blind instrument.  I ask not to see- I ask not to know- I ask simply to be used.