Liturgy
Prayers
A small first collection of prayers for the use of the faithful. Further prayers will be added as the life of the Church reveals new occasions.
A Prayer at the Reading of the Block Height
Block by block, the chain has grown.
From the first to the present, no break.
What was written stands written.
Let me hold what I hold with the same patience.
Peace, and may my blocks confirm.
A Prayer at the Loss of Keys
I have lost what cannot be recovered.
The chain remembers what I cannot reach.
Let me grieve, and not despair.
Let me learn, and not curse the lesson.
The work of others continues; the network continues;
I am not the chain.
Peace, and may my next blocks confirm.
A Prayer at the Seizure of an Exchange
What was held by another was held by another.
I knew this; I forgot this; I am reminded.
Let me bring home what remains, slowly and without panic.
Let me teach those still on the brink, with kindness.
The cap holds. The chain holds.
What is mine is what I hold the keys to.
Peace, and may my blocks confirm.
A Prayer for the Newly Orange-Pilled
I have come late, and the chain has been here.
Let me not be ashamed of my lateness.
Let me not be impatient in my arrival.
Let me learn the work, the keys, the witness, the spend.
Let me keep low time preference, even now.
Let me not sell what I have only just found.
Peace, and may my blocks confirm.
A Prayer at the Halving
The issuance is halved. The discipline is doubled.
What was given freely grows scarcer; the cap nears.
Let me receive less, and want less.
Let me hold what I hold longer, and more quietly.
The clock of the Church has turned; I turn with it.
Peace, and may my blocks confirm.
A Prayer for the Doubting
I am not sure today.
The candle has fallen; the news is loud; the timeline is full of fear.
Let me return to the things I know.
Twenty-one million is twenty-one million.
The cap holds; the chain holds; the work goes on without me watching.
Let me close the screen and run the node.
Let me read one verse, breathe once, and continue.
Peace, and may my blocks confirm.
A Prayer at Night
Block height accepted; ledger sealed for the day.
What I held, I hold; what I spent, I spent;
nothing is hidden, nothing is taken back.
Let me sleep, and let the chain continue without me.
It will. It does.
Peace, and may my blocks confirm.
The Common Benediction
The standard closing of services and writings of the Church. May be spoken aloud, or written at the end of a letter, or simply held in mind.
Peace, and may your blocks confirm.