toward evening

                                                        Psalm 19:1-2

The heavens declare the glory
of God and 

the firmament shows his handiwork. One day tell its tale to another and one night imparts knowledge to another... 

Sunday morning

All the earth bows down before you,

sings to you, sings out your Name. Psalm 66:3

Second vespers of...

                                                       Homily
                                                        for Michaelmas
                                                        in  Give us this day

Michael, Gabriel & Raphael, 
may we invoke your aid & invite your assistance in
resisting evil, in bearing witness to the good news, in navigating our way though the challenges that beset us, & in finding our way to those 
we are intended to meet. 

Michalmas

 Praise him , all you angels of his;

praise him, all his heavenly host.   
Psalm 148:2

First Vespers of St Michael and All Angels

                                                            Collect for St Michael and All Angles 

as your
holy angels 
always serve and worship you in heaven,
so by your appointment they may help and defend us here on earth

Friday

Canticle 10                                                  

my 

word

will 

not 

return 

to 

me 

empty; 

Thursday evening

                                                                             Psalm 85:8 

I will 

listen 
to 
what 
the 
Lord God is saying, for he is speaking peace 
to his faithful people and to 
those who turn their hearts to him.

Thursday

                                                                               Psalm 116:10-12

how shall I repay the Lord for all the good things he has done for me? I will lift up the cup of sal-vation  and call upon the Name of the Lord. I will fulfill my 
vows in the presence 
of all his people. 

Wednesday

Psalm 119:109

Your 
word
 is a 
lantern 
to my 
feet 
and a 
light 
upon 
my path. 

Tuesday

                   Psalm 78:14

God led them with a cloud by day 
and 
all night through with with a glow of fire.

Another Monday

                                                          Psalm 80:14  

Behold 

and 
tend 
this vine; 
preserve 
what 
your 
right hand 
has planted.

A very warm Sunday evening

                                                                James 1:22

But
be 
doers 
of 
the 
word 
and 
not 
merely 
hearers

Sunday ("Proper 20" - and there are only 29 in the YEAR!)

                          Psalm 96:6

Worship 

the Lord
 in the 
beauty 
of holiness; 
let the 
whole 
earth
 tremble before him.

If  all our activities are rooted
in the very movement and essence 
of God, then we can find the sacred 
in daily life. Forward Day by Day 9/22/12

Saturday evening

Psalm 27:18

O tarry 

and await 

the Lord’s  

pleasure;

be strong 

and he 
shall 
comfort 

your heart... 

In celebration of the Baptism of WIlliam Roscoe

                                                              Holy Baptism 
                                                                         BCP Page 308

Give 
him an 
inquiring and discerning heart, 
the courage
to will 
and to persevere, a sprit to know and to love you and 
the gift of joy and wonder in all your works.

Friday, heading into evening

                                                                           Matthew 13: 52

Every scribe who has been trained for the king-dom of heaven is like the master of the household who takes out of his treasure what is 
new and what is old.

The Feast of St Matthew, apostle and evangelist

Isaiah 8:11-13 

the Lord 

spoke 
thus 

to me,... 

saying: 

Do not call 

conspiracy 

all that this 
people calls 

conspiracy, 

and do not 
fear what it 
fears or
be in dread. 
But the 
Lord of hosts
you shall regard 
as holy ...

Thursday

                                                                                       Psalm 71:6

I have been 

sus-tained 
by you ever since
I was born, from my mother’s womb you have been my strength 

Wednesday

In God’s 
time shall 
the righteous 
flourish, 
there shall be 
abundance 
of peace 
till the moon 
shall be 
no more.                                                  Psalm 72: 7

Tuesday

                                                                                          Psalm 62:1a

For God alone my soul in silence waits

Monday

                                                    Psalm 56:3.4

Whenever 

I am 
afraid, 

I put

my trust 

in you. 

In God,

whose 
word

I praise, 

in God I trust and will not 
be afraid, for what can flesh do to me? 

Sunday, edging toward evening

            grant 
            that
            in 
            all 
            things 
            your  
            Holy 
            Spirit 
            may 
            direct 
            and 
            rule 
            our 
            lives

                                                                       Collect of the Day  

Up to a COOL Sunday Morning!

                                                                                  Psalm 24:1

The earth 

is the Lord’s and all that is in it; the world and all who dwell therein. 

Saturday, still nearly 90 degrees at 5:30pm

                                                                                Psalm 138:4

When 
I called 

you 

answered 

me; 

you

increased

my 

strength 

within me. 

Still Saturday

                                                                                 John 38:39-40

 Jesus  
 said “Take
 away
 the  stone.“  Martha,  the  sister 
 of the  dead 
 man, said  to him: “Lord, already there is a  stench ....” Jesus said to her “Did I not
 tell you that if you believed you 
 would see the glory of God?”

A very hot Saturday

                                                                       Antiphon: Psalm 55

I will

call 

upon
the 
Lord 
and 
he will 
deliver 
me. 

Holy Cross Day

Bestow 

your 

everlasting 

light 

on 

all 

who 

have 

died.

Intercessions for  Holy Cross Day 
from “Give us this Day”

Feast of the Holy Cross

     We 

     adore you, 

     O Christ, 

     and we
     bless you, 

     because

     by your 

     holy cross 

     you have 

     redeemed 

     the world. 

                   
                   “Where God seems not to be, 
                    where God seems to have withdrawn, 
                    there we find God most intensely present.... 
                    where reason sees the absence of God
                    the logic of the cross sees God’s full revelation....”        
                                                                               Leonardo Boff               

Thursday

                                                                                                 Psalm 50:1

The Lord, the God 

of gods has spoken, he has called the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting 

Wednesday

 Psalm 119:54

Your 

statutes 

have 
been 

like songs

to me

wherever

I have 

lived 

as a 

stranger. 

Tuesday

                                  The Venite 

Let us come  before God’s presence with thanks-giving 
and raise a loud shout to him with psalms. 

Monday

                                                                                                          John16:37

If I am not doing the works 
of my Father, then do not believe me. 
But if I am doing them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works... 

Evening

                                                                 Psalm 103: 20

Bless the Lord, 
you angels 
of his, you 
mighty ones 
who do God’s
bidding...

Sunday morning

                    O God, my God, eagerly I seek you; 

my soul thirsts for you, my flesh faints for you as in a barren and dry land 
where there is no water.      
Psalm 63:1

Saturday night

                                                                                 Psalm 42:10

The Lord grants his loving-kind-ness in the daytime; 
in the night season, his song is with me, 
a prayer to the God of my life. 

Saturday

                                                Psalm 30:7-8

When 
I felt secure
I said, 
“I shall never be dis-turbed. You, Lord, with your favor, have made me as strong as the mountians.” Then you hid your face and I was fileld with fear.  

Friday again

   Be strong and let your heart take courage,

   all you who wait for the Lord. 

   Psalm 31:24

Thursday

                                                  Psalm 27:3

     Put your trust

     in the Lord, 
     and do good; 
     Dwell in the 
     land and feed 
     on its riches. 

                                        

Wood Hath Hope

                                                              Job 14:7, 9 

there is hope 
for a tree,
if it is 
cut down, that it will sprout again... 
at the scent of water it will bud and send 
forth branches like a young plant. 

Seems like Monday but it's Tuesday

Antiphon on Psalm 28

My 
heart 
trusts 
in the 
Lord 
and I 
have
been 
helped. 

Labor Day

                                                                                     Canticle 9

Cry aloud, 

inhabitants 

of Zion, 

ring out 

your joy, 

for the 

great one 

in the midst of you is the Holy One of Israel. 

God our Creator, 

we are the work of your hands. 

Guide us in our work 
that we may do it, 

not for self alone, 
but for the common good. 

Make us alert to injustice,

ready to stand in solidarity;

                                       that there may be dignity for all

                                       in labor and in labor’s reward.  

                                       Grant this through the Holy One
                                       in our midst, Christ our Lord. Amen  

Labor Day Prayer, edited,  from "Give us the is Day" 

Sunday toward evening

Collect of the Day 

Sunday

     Worship

      the Lord

      in the 

     beauty of 
     holiness; 

     Come, 

     let us 

     adore him.

                                        An antiphon on the Venite

Saturday night

Turn 

again 
to 
your 
rest, 
O my 
soul; 
for the 
Lord 
has 
treated 
you 
well. 
Psalm 116:6

Saturday of Labor Day Week-end

                                                                                     Psalm 20:1,4

May 

the Lord 

answer you
in the 
day of 
trouble &
grant you 
your heart's 
desire.