The Feast of St Andrew, the first feast day of the new liturgical year

                                                                            I Corinthians 4:1 

Think 

of us 

in this 

way, 
as ser-vants of Christ and stewards of God’s mysteries. 

Thursday

 Canticle 1, Benedicte, omnia opera Domini 

O frost and cold, bless 
ye the Lord.... 

Wednesday in the LAST week of the liturgical year

                                                                          The Venite

He is our God and 
we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. 
Oh, that today you would 
harken to his voice!

Thursday

                                                          Psalm 23: 3

               God 

               revives
               my 

               soul 

               he 

               leads 

               me 

               along 

               right 

               pathways for his Name’s sake. 

Wednesday, midweek

                                                                       Canticle 11

Arise shine, 
for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has dawned upon you. 

Tuesday

                                  The Venite

In God’s hands are 
the 
cav-erns 
of the earth & the heights of the hills are his also 

Monday Evening Prayer

                                                                Collect for Peace   

Give 

to us 

that 

peace 

which 

the 
world 

cannot give

Monday, Veteran's Day Holiday

Behold 

and 

tend 

this
 vine


Psalm 80:14

evening

    Antiphon: Psalm 34    

Those 

who  

seek  

the  

Lord  

lack  

nothing 

that 

is 

good. 

Sunday (Proper 27 of 29!)

                                                                   Ecclesiasticus 55:17

            

             


            To

           HIM 

           who 

            gives 

            wisdom 

            I 

            will 

            give 

            praise. 

In loving memory of Raymond Johnston

      Psalm 23:2b

          He leads me beside still waters 

Loe the Great, Bishop of rome, 461

grant that your Church may hold fast 

the great 
mystery 
of our 
redemption
& adore 
the one Christ,
true God &true Man, neither divided from our human nature nor separated from your divine Being,
the point of overlap between
heaven and earth.      Based on the Collect 
for Leo the Great & a quote by NT Wright 

Friday

Most 
merciful 

God,

forgive
what we 
have been,  
help us 
amend 
what we are 
and direct 
what we
 shall be... 

Thursday

                                              Antiphon: Psalm 71, 6a

                   


     You 

     are 
     my 
     hope, 
     O 
     Lord 
     God, 

          my confidence since I was young. 
                I have been entrusted to you
                                   ever since I was born 
    

Wednesday

 Collect for Grace 

you have

brought 

us in 

safely 

to this 

new day; 

Preserve us 
with your 

mighty 
power... 

Tuesday Night

     Be our light in the darkness, O Lord... 

Tuesday, Election Day

Psalm 62:1

For 

God 

alone 

my  

soul 

in 

silence 

waits

Monday, inching toward evening

You make the dawn and the dusk to sing for joy. 
                                    Psalm 65:8b 

                      

Monday

                                                      Psalm 56:12

you have rescu-ed my soul from death 
and 
my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before
God in the land of the living. 

Sunday evening

                                    I Corinthians 13:8

                 Love never ends.

Sunday

                                  Psalm 29:11

The Lord 

will give 
strength 
to his 
people;
the Lord 
will give 
his people
the bles-sing of 
peace.

The Commemoration of Richard Hooker, Priest 1553- 1660

Do not be afraid little flock; 

it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. 

Grant that we may maintain 
                        this middle way, 
not as a compromise 
                  for the sake of peace,
but as a comprehension 
                  for the sake of truth. 
                        Collect: Richard Hooker 

This is the exact opposite of the sentiment of the quote I heard recently which typifies much of what is deadly in politics today: “Ideology has not need to deliberate.”  

All Soul's

                                                                                         Wisdom 3:1-3            

 

The souls of the right-eous are in the hand of God and there no torment shall ever touch them. In the eyes of the foolish their departure was thought to be a disaster,
and their going from us 
to be their destruction,
but they are at peace. 

Friday

                                                                           Psalm 40:12

I waited patiently upon the  Lord; he stooped to me and heard my cry. He lifted me out of the desolate pit, out of the mire and clay; he set my feet upon a high cliff 
and made my footing sure. 

All Saints Day!

                                                                             Hymn 287 v.5

And when the strife is fierce, the war-fare long, steals on the ear 
the 
dis-tant tri-umph song, and heart are brave again, and arms are strong. 
Alleluia, alleluia.