Evening Prayer

      Hebrews 10:23

Let us

hold fast 

to the 

confidence 

of our hope 

without 

wavering,

for he who 

promised

is faithful. 

The last day of January 2104

    Psalm 40:17a

  Let those who seek you rejoice and be glad 

I wrote this verse down wrong initially and throughout my meditation 

I kept thinking of it wrong - I kept adding in him. But that somehow puts limits where there are none  ... it’s that those who seek God may rejoice and be glad,. Full stop. Let those who seek you rejoice and be glad.

Evening Prayer

                                                                  A Collect at Evening Prayer 

                                                                                                   BCP Pg 124

Lord Jesus Christ, stay with 

us.. kindle our hearts and awaken hope... 

Somehow it's gotten to be the last Thursday in January

    Psalm 50:14

Offer to 

God a 

sacrifice 
of thanks-
giving and 
make good 

your vows to 
the Most High. 

Andrei Rublev, 15th century Russian monk and iconographer , d.1430

                                                                   Psalm 119:68

You are good, and you bring forth good; instruct me in your statutes. 

"To everything, turn, turn, turn, there is a season, turn, turn, turn " Rest on Peace, Pete Seeger. And thanks.

  

Lift up

your 

voice, 

all you 

peoples; 

shout 

to God with a cry of joy.                               Psalm 47:1

                                                          

St Thomas Aquinas, a surprisingly short life. (1225-1274) We usually celebrate the day of saint died. This date is odd because it is the date when his relics were transferred to Toulouse, France in 1369…

                                                                                                    Psalm 45:1

My heart is stirring with a noble song; let me recite what I have fashioned for the king;
 my tongue shall be the pen 
of a skilled writer. 

Humbly I adore thee, Verity unseen,
who thy glory hiddest 'neath these shadows mean;
low, to thee surrendered, my whole heart is bowed,
tranced as it beholds thee, shrined within the cloud.

Taste and touch and vision to discern thee fail;
faith, that comes by hearing, pierces through the veil.
I believe whate're the Son of God hath told;
what the Truth hath spoken, that for truth I hold.

O memorial wondrous of the Lord's own death;
living Bread that givest all thy creatures breath,
grant my spirit ever by thy life may live,
to my taste thy sweetness neverfailing give.

Jesus, whom now hidden, I by faith behold,
what my soul doth long for, that thy word foretold:
face to face thy splendor, I at last shall see,
in the glorious vision, blessed Lord, of thee.

                                                Thomas Aquinas

Pray that theology always be grounded in prayer and in the life and worship of the community of faith,  

Monday day Evening Prayer

                                                                          Hebrews 8:10

This is the 
new covenant 
that I will make,
says the Lord… 
I will put 
my laws 
in their minds and write them on their hearts and I will be their God and they will be my people. 

Lydia, Dorcas and Phoebe, patrons and helpers of the Apostles.

                                                               Psalm 41:1a 

Happy are they who consider the poor and needy. 

Prayers are asked for

the poor

for foreigners living in a strange land 

for deaconesses 

for all who who assist or enable the 

                            Proclamation of the Gospel

The Third Sunday after the Epiphany

               Te Deum laudamus (BCP Pg 95)

You are God: we praise you;

You are the Lord: we acclaim you; 

You are the eternal Father: 
All creation worships you. 

The Conversion of St Paul, which ends The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity

                                              

The heavens declare the glory of God, 

and the firm-ament shows his handi-work. 

Their sound 

has gone out into all lands, &   

their message to the ends of the earth.                                                    Psalm 19:1,4 

Friday St Francis de Sales (1567-1622)

                                                                           Psalm 31:24  

Be strong and

let your heart take 
courage, 

all you who wait for the Lord. 

“I I need to deal with my self 

gently and with compassion ...”

A foggy Thursday morning

                                                                                                     Psalm 37:5a

          Commit

          your 

          way 

          to the 

          Lord 

          and 

          put 

          your

          trust

          in 
          him. 

Never too late for Evening Prayer

                                                              Psalm 119:27

Make 

me under-

stand 
the way
of your 

command-

ments,
 that I may  
meditate

on your 

word. 

                   icon of John on Patmos from the isle of Patmos

St Vincent, Deacon of Saragossa, Spain, 304, Martyred under Diocletian.

  strengthen us in your love 

Collect

of the 
feast 

Prayers are suggested for the church in Spain, for all Deacons, For freedom from fear, For the will to em-brace our calling to serve the world, For the unity of the church in this Week of Prayer For Christian Unity.

St Agnes, teenage martyry at Rome 304

                      Collect for Peace, BCP Pg. 99 

O God, to know you is eternal life 

Every year 

on the Feast of St Agnes 

at the basilica in Rome, 

two lambs are blessed, 

whose wool is woven into a scarf called a pallium with which the Pope invests archbishops. Such a pallium was sent by Pope Gregory the Great in 601 to Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, a representation of which still appears on the coast of arms of  Archbishops of Canterbury. From Holy Women, Holy Men... 

Prayers are suggested today for all children and teenagers, especially for those who are ridiculed for their faith or way of life, for schools and youth groups, and for all who teach or work with young people, that they may be directed and protected.  (New Book of Festivals... )

 

Toward evening

                                                              Postcommunion Prayer 

                                                                                BCP Pg 366

And now,

Father, 

send 

us out 

to do 

the work 

you have 
given us 

to do,
 to love 
and serve 
you as faithful witnesses of Christ our Lord

Martin Luther King Jr

                                                          Postcommunion Prayer 

                                                                            BCP Pg 366

                                                      And now,

Father, 

send 

us out 

to do 

the work 

you have given us 

to do

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Sunday EP

                                                                   The collect 

grant that your people may shine with 
the radiance of Christ’s glory 

The Second Sunday after the Epiphany

     Collect of the Day 

Grant 

that  

your 

people, 

being 

illumined 

by your 

Word and

Sacraments, 

may shine 

with the 

radiance of

Christ’s glory

The Confession of St Peter, which begins The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.

                                                              Mark 3:29 NIV                                                              

But 

what 

about 

you? 

Who do you 

say that I am? 

St Anthony, Abbot in Egypt, 356, the founder of monasticism. And my sister-in-law Betty Buck's birthday!

                                                                               Psalm 16:5-6

O 

God, 
you 
are 
my 
por-
tion 
and 
my 
cup; it is you who uphold my lot. My boundaries enclose a pleasant land; indeed, I have 
a goodly heritage. 

The Lutheran New Book... suggests prayers for 

     *All whom God is calling to the Religious Life.  

     *All monks and nuns and for all communities of men and women who seek a deeper faith and a fuller life.  

     *An appreciation of the virtues of poverty, chastity 

and obedience [as they express themselves in our individual lives.] 

     *Deliverance from acquisitiveness 

and from attachment to the things of this world. 

Evening Prayer

                                                    Psalm 18:29

             

             
             You, 

             O Lord,

             are my 

             lamp; 

             O God 

             you 

             make 

             my darkness  bright. 

Thursday

     Psalm 18:1a

I

love 

you, 

O 

Lord, 

my 
strength 

Friday night

       Colossians 2:20  

If with Christ you died
to the elemental spirits
of the universe, 
why do you still live 

as if you still 

belonged to the world? 

Friday after the Epiphany and the Commemoration of William Laud, (1573-1645) Sixth Archbishop of Canterbury after the Elizabethan Settlement (1533-1645, when he was beheaded.)

   Antiphon on Psalm 139

Search 

me out, 

O God, 

and know 

my heart; 

and lead me

 in the way
that is 
everlasting.

Gracious Father, we pray for the holy Catholic Church. Fill it with 
all truth, with all truth in all peace. Where it is corrupt, purify it. Where it is in error, direct it; 
where in anything it is amiss, reform it; wherever right, strengthen it, where it is in want, provide for it; whew it  is divided, reunite it, for the sake of Jesus Christ, your Son our Savior. (BCP Pg 816)

Thursday Evening Prayer (containing one of my Dad's favorite psalm verses)

                                                    Antiphon on Psalm 131

Whoever 

humbles 

himself 

as a 
child 
shall 
be great 

in the 

kingdom 

of heaven 

Thursday

 Epiphany Antiphon on the Venite

The 

Lord 

has 

shown 

forth 

his 

glory;

Come, 

let us 
adore
 him. 

Wednesday Evening Prayer

   Colossians 1:19

in 

him 

the 

fullness 

of God 

was 

pleased 

to 

dwell.

Wednesday

                                                                          Surge, Illuminare 

                                               (Canticle 11 at Morning Prayer) 

Arise,

shine,

for 

your 

light 

has 

come, 

and 

the 

glory 

of
the 

Lord 

has dawned upon you.                        

                                 I took this picture by mistake. Or, more accurately, I saw it by mistake. I was taking a picture of the misty pinky-orange dawn and somehow my iPad got into a mode that I didn’t want it in and I couldn’t figure out how it had gotten there and. more critically, how to change it. And as I messed around with it, I saw this, and snapped a picture.  It’s just gravel that is supposed to be covering the ground, but which has become sparse over the years... When we lived in LA, Gordon and I had a little friend named Erica. She was maybe 5 or 6 at the time and she had a smile that lit up the world. She had cystic fibrosis and she died at age 8, after we'd moved to San Diego, Erica collected Reader’s Digests and rocks. One day while she was at our house, she saw a pile of gravel at the landlord’s and she asked if she could collect some of it. I said “Sure, but Erica, it’s just gavel.” And she looked at me wide-eyed and she said “How do you know?” 

Tuesday Evening Prayer

      Colossians 1:11 

May you 

be made 

strong 

with all the 

strength 

that comes 

from his 

glorious power 

Tuesday January 7

                                                                    Epiphany Collect 

O God, 

by the 

leading 

of a 

star, 

you 

mani-
fested 

your 
only 
Son to 
the 
peoples 
of the earth... 

n choosing 

to be born 

for us, 

God chose 

to be known by us. 

Peter Chrysologus , 

Bishop of Ravenna, 450

Epiphany: the showing forth of Jesus the Light of the the whole world, to the Gentile world as Christmas was to the Jewish world

                                                                Isaiah 49:6  

I will 
give 
you 
as a 
light 
to the 
nations, 
that 
my 
salva-
tion may reach to the end of the earth. 

                                                ..and when they opened heir treasures, they presented to him precious gifts: gold as to a true King,  incense as to the true God, and myrrh to foreshow his burial, alleluia.

                               - Epiphany Antiphon on the Magnificat