Somehow it's gotten to be the last Sunday in August!

     The Sunday  Collect 

nourish 

us in all 

goodness; 

& bring

forth in us 

the fruit 

of good 

works 

Saturday Evening Prayer

                                                                      Psalm 116:1

I 

will 

life 

up 

the 

cup 

of 

salvation and call 

upon the Name of the Lord . 

Adrian and Cuthbert, Bishops of Lindesfarn, 651 684 (transferred from the 31st…)

                         Psalm 20: 1,2a

  May the Lord 

  answer you 

  in the day 

  of trouble, 

  the Name 

  of the God 

  of Jacob 

  defend you 

  and send 

  you strength

Night Prayer

                                                   Acts 10:34

I 

truly 

under-

stand 

that 

God shows no partiality… 

Friday

      John 7:37             “Let anyone who is 

              thirsty come to me.”    

Evening Prayer

                       Collect for the Presence of Christ 

                                            at Evening Prayer

Lord Jesus Christ, stay 

with 

us for 

evening

is at 

hand & 

the day 

is past; be our companion on

the way, kindle our hearts & awaken hope…

St Augustine, Bishop of Hippo 354-430 Our friend Bill Mahedy was an Augustinian both in his heart and in fact

                                                   Psalm 18:1

I 

love 

you, 

O 

Lord,

 my strength….. 

 Lord God, the light of the minds that know you, the life of the souls that love you, the strength of the hearts that serve you; help us, following the example of your servant Augustine of Hippo, so to know you that we may truly love you, and so to love you, 
that we may truly serve you…
                  “You have made us for yourself 
                   and our hearts are restless 
                   until they rest in you.” 

                             

Evening Prayer

   St Monica

                 “Nothing is far from God.” 

St Monica of North Africa, mother of St Augustine of Hippo c 322-387

                                                   Psalm 119:18

Open 

my 

eyes 

that 

I may 

see the wonders of your law. 

“The present Roman Catholic calendar &  The Lutheran Service Book commemorate Monica the day before the feast day of her son, whose life was so interwoven with her own. [Other calendars, including the BCP] retain the pre-vious date...  May 4, ma-king Monica available as a model for Mother’s Day ..."

Pray for mothers, 

for all homes where only one parent is Christian,

and for a spirit of unceasing prayer. 

Tuesday Evening Pryaer

                                                                  Psalm 4:8

I will 

lie down

in peace; 

at once 

I fall 

asleep; 

for only you, Lord, make me dwell in safety.

Tuesday

                                                                      Psalm 5:3

In the 
mor-ning, 
Lord, 
you 
hear 
my 
voice; 
early in the morning 
I make my appeal and watch for you. 

Evening again

                     I Peter 5:7

Cast 

all 

your 

anxiety 

on 
God 

for he cares for you.

St Bartholomew, one of the 12 Apostles (Transferred from yesterday)

                                  The Baptismal Covenant 

Will you continue

 in the 

apostles 

teaching  &

 fellowship,

in the 

breaking 

of bread 

& in the prayers?  

     “Nothing certain is known about St Bartholomew - not even his name”. Bar-tolome may be the last name, it being Aramaic for Son of Tolomai (Ptolemy.) SO maybe Batholomew is his last name and Maybe the first name is Nathaniel… The manner of his death is also in dispute - some traditions say he was flayed alive, others that he was sewn into a leather bag and thrown into the sea.. And his feast day is celebrated variously today (in the West since the 8th century) and in  the Eastern Church on June 11..  

        I love this quote from the Lutheran New Book…“  The collect of the day…. may appear as vague as the details of Bartholomew’s life, but, in fact, in the concise manner of the collect form, it is quite precise. ‘What he believed’ and ‘what he taught’ is not to imply soto voce  ‘Whatever that was!’  Rather the prayer asks God to preserve the Church on the apostolic foundation, believing, teaching and preaching the word of God.” Which lead me finally to my meditation verse for the day., the Baptismal Covenant because it’s collective - not HIS teaching but THEIR teaching. It matters a great deal what we do, how we live our lives, what choices me make, what we stand up for.  But in the end, as Christians, it is not who we are individually, but  Whose we are collectively that counts. One hand has too be firmly n the hand of the Man who stilled the waters. The other hand has to be firmly in yours.  

Sunday night

                                                                   Psalm 111:1

I will

give 

thanks 

to the 

Lord 

with 

my 

whole 

heart, 

in the assembly of the 

upright, in the congregation.

Sunday

                                                                        The Venite

O, that 

TO-DAY 

you 

would hearken to his voice. 

Saturday, toward evening

                                           I Peter 3:11

to 

this 

you 

were 

called…

turn 

from 

evil 

& do 

good, seek peace and follow after it.

Saturday

   Canticle 12: A Song of Creation  

Glorify 

the Lord , 

O springs 

of water, 

seas and streams

After another hot Friday in San Diego

                                              Psalm 141:2

Let my prayer be set forth 

in your sight 

as incense; the lifting up of my hands 

as the evening sacrifice.

Friday

                                                          Psalm 142:3

When my spirit languishes within me, you know my  path.

Thursday

                                                         Collect for Guidance

in YOU we live and move and have 

our being  … so guide and govern us by Your Holy Spirit that … in all the cares and occupations of our life, 

we may not forget you……

Wednesday

             Psalm 128:6

May 
you 
live 
to 
see 
your 
child-ren’s 
children; may peace be upon Israel.

St Bernard Abbot of Clairvaux 1090-1153

         Antiphon on verses 145-152                                

                                       of Psalm 119  

I 

call 

to 

you, 

O 

Lord; 

for 

in 

your 

word is 

my hope.

Pray for a deepened life of prayer and for those who hold responsibility and influence in the church.

“The cause of our loving God is God, for he is both the origin of our love and its goal. He himself is the occasion of human love; he who gives the power to love and brings desire to its consummation.”  
                 St Bernard

Tuesday Evening Prayer

    Psalm 124:1a      

Our help 

is in 

the Name 

of the  

Lord 

Tuesday

                                       Psalm 121:1-2

I lift up my eyes to the hills; from where  is my help to come? My help comes from 

the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth.

Monday Evening Prayer

                        Acts of the Apostles 7:48-50  

…the Most High does 

not dwell in houses made of human hands. For as theProphet says, “Heaven is my throne and and the earth my footstool.. Did not my hand make all these things?” 

William Porcher Dubost (1836-1918)

Meet Mason, 
my granddaughter Alexis’s monarch butterfly. He spent his “years” as a caterpillar & then a chrysalis in a mason jar in her bedroom. Then one day she looked in on him & he had becomes a butterfly. She took him outside & he was finally coaxed out & hung there a long time with his wings drying, wondering what in the world had happened and where he was... 

  Canticle 9 

Surely 

it is God 

who saves

 me, I will 

trust in him 

and not 

be afraid. 

“William Porcher DuBose, 

[who was] probably the most original & creative thinker the American Episcopal Church has ever produced, spend most of his life as a professor at the University of the South in Swanee TN…[saw] life & doctrine as a dramatic dialogue…” 

                   "It’a not so much the pathway to faith that                            matters, as long as the object of your faith  
                       is correct." 

Sunday toward evening

                                                   Psalm 145: 1,2

I will exalt you, 

O God my King, 

and praise your Name for ever & ever. Every day will I bless you & praise your Name for ever & ever. 

Summer Sunday

     Psalm 118 :1 

Give 

thanks 

to the 

Lord 

for he  

is good; 

his mercy 

endures 

for ever. 

Saturday evening

                                                         The Sunday Collect 

                 Give 

                     us

               grace 

                     to 

              follow 

                daily

               in the 

                most 

          blessed 

          steps of 

           Christ’s  

                most 

                 holy 

                 life 

Saturday morning

                    Collect for Mission  

Lord Jesus Christ, 

you strecht-ed 
out
your arms of love on the hard wood 
of the Cross that everyone might 
come within the reach of your sav-
ing embrace. So clothe us in your
Spirit that we, reaching out our 
hands in love, may bring those who 
do not know you to the knowledge 
and love of you  

Second Vespers of the Feast of St Mary the Mother of our Lord

                                                  Collect of the Day 

O God, 

you have taken 

to yourself 

the Blessed 

Virgin Mary, mother of your  incarnate Son. Grant that we,  who have been  redeemed by his blood,

     may share with her the glory 

              of your eternal kingdom…

The Feast of St Mary, celebrated by the Church on this date since the 6th century.

             “Ye Watchers and Ye

    Holy Ones” Latin words from the 5th-8th century

  O higher than the cherubim, more glorious than the seraphim, lead their praises, alleluia. Thou bearer of the Eternal Word, most gracious, magnify the Lord, Alleluia, 

alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.

<—Mildred at the Piano

        If know know this hymn (#618 in the Episcopal Hymnal) I bet you dimes to donuts that it is singing itself in your soul. I can hear my Montanan Aunt Mildred, who would not have known it in the least, saying “You betcha” with her wonderful laugh.  

Jonathon Myrick Daniels (1939-1965) Episcopal seminarian who as shot to death during the struggle for civil rights in Selma Al.

                                                        confession of sin

we 

have 

not 

loved 

YOU with 

our 
whole heart, 
we have not loved out neighbors as ourselves 

“the faith with which I went to Selma has not changed; it has grown… I begin to know in my body & in my sinews that… we are indelibly & unspeakably one” 

My new quote from Sr Electa, OCD

       Life 

    has a life of its own. 
                              Sr Electa OCD

Jeremy Taylor, Bishop. 1613-1667

                                                                  Psalm 101:1,2b  

I will sing of mercy and  justice, 

to you, O Lord,

 I will sing praises.… I will walk with 

sincerity of heart within my house.

“God is present 
everywhere in power… 
God is especially present
 in the hearts of his people,
 by his Holy Spirit,
 and indeed, the hearts of holy [people] are temples…. in type and shadow, 
they are heaven itself.”     

            

  

Holy Living,, Jeremy Taylor