Today we remember Niclaus Copernicus and Johannes Kepler, astronomers, 1543.

                     Antiphon on Psalm 25 

Lead 

me 

in 

your 

truth, 

O Lord, 

and 

teach 

me. 

Pray today for all 

astronomers &

watchers of the 

skies: for math-

ematicians & all 

lovers of numbers, 

for all scientists 

who explore the 

beauty of number 

& order; for cour-

age pursue truth, 

for humility & awe 

in the face of mystery, & for a new vision

of the beauty of creation. 

                         The Butterly Nebulae 

 I love this explanation in The Lutheran New Book as to the inclusion of Copernicus: was "not… notably devout, but his ideas ultimately required Christian-ity to expand its understanding of size of the universe & to come to terms with the position of the Earth not at the center, but as part of the solar system that is on the fringe of the universe. Copernicus thus taught Christianity a new kind of humility before the cosmos."