St Jerome of Bethlenen 347-420 “not often pleasant but never boring.” There's hope or all of us !

                                    Hosea 10:12

   Sow for yourselves righteousness, 

                      reap steadfast love 

The Feast of St Michael and All Angels!

                                                    Collect 

grant 

that, 

as your 

holy 

angels 

always 

serve &

worship 

you  in 

heaven,

so, by your 

appointment, they may

help & defend us here on earth

Wednesday evening

  General Thanksgiving at Evening Prayer

        We thank you for the means 

   of grace & for the hope of glory

 

Today we remember the wonderful 14th English mystics, Richard Rolle, Walter Hilton and Margery Kemp who “passing through the cloud of unknowing beheld your glory…” -Collect

    Luke 5:37,38

no one puts 

new wine 

into old 

wine skins; 

otherwise 

the new 

wine will 

burst the 

skins, and 

will be 

spilled, & 

the skins 

will be 

destroyed.  

But new wine 

must be put into 

fresh wine skins.

you have brought us in safety 

to this new day, perceive us 

with your might power…  

Collect for Grace 

Wilson Carlisle, Priest 1847–19 42 Englaih evangelist and priest who founded the Church Army.

                    The Venite (=Psalm95) 

                       at Morning Prayer 

We 

are 

God’s 

people 

& the 

sheep 

of his 

pasture, 

O that today 

you would harken to his voice!

We thank you for the courage and compassion 

of Wilson Carlile while who, after the example of your son, Sean new ways to open your church to diverse leaders as 

beacons of the gospel 

of Christ. Quicken in our hearts to give a witness 

to Jesus…  - Collect

(Aren’t you glad that when we are “marked as Christ’s own forever” in baptism, it is with oil on our forehands and not red paint on our butts!) 

And THAT in SPADES!

                         Monday at 

                      Evening Prayer 

Give 

to us, your serv-ants, that peace which the world cannot give. 

Lancelot Andrews, Bishop of Winchester, 1626. Author, or at least the compiler, of Private Devotions, "an anthology from the Scriptures and the ancient liturgies.” A collector of phrases - a man after my own heart. Or I after his!

                                                Psalm 89:1 

Your love, 

O LORD 

for ever 

will I sing, 

from age 

to age my 

mouth shall proclaim your faithfulness.

Perfect in us what 

is lacking in your gifts, 

of faith, to increase it, 

of hope, to establish it,  

of love, to kindle it ,

that we may live 

in the life of your 

grace & glory

 = Collect 

             

                                                         

                                                           Prelate of the Garter 

                                                           Who knew!!!!??

  

Sunday night

                                       James 3:13b

Show by your 

good life that 

your works 

are done with 

a gentleness 

born of wisdom. 

Sunday

                              Based on Hosea 2:14 

  I 

  will 

  allure 

  you 

  and 

  bring 

  you 

  into the wilderness 

  and speak tenderly to you.

Saturday night

                                               Psalm 136:1, 7a, 9

Give thanks to the Lord 

for he is good; 

 his mercy endures forever.

Who created great lights … the moon 

and the stars to govern the night … his mercy 

                                                      endures forever.

Tomorrow, September 25, we celebrate Sergius (1314-1392)Abbot of Holy Trinity Moscow, a patron saint of Russia and national hero.

  

                           Based on Psalm, 87: 3,6 

I count

Babylon 

+ Egypt 

among those who know me, 

behold, Allepo, Tehran + Sudan, 

in Zion were they born. The singers 

and the dancers will say “All my fresh 

                         springs are in you.” 

Sergius was simple + gentle in nature, mystical in tem-perament, + eager to ensure that his monks should serve the meeds of their neighbors. -Holy Women, Holy Men 

Thursday evening

Psalm 92:1a,2

It is a 

good thing

to tell of 

your loving- 

kindness 

early in the 

morning, + 

of your 

faithfulness 

in the 

night season.

Friday

   Canticle 10  (=Isaiah 55:11)               

my
word…

will not

return 

to me  

empty 

    but
                                           will accomplish
                                what I have purposed
     and prosper in that for which I sent it. 

                                                                
                                             

Evening Payer of the first full day of Fall

  Psalm 85:8

I will listen to 

what the Lord 

God is saying,

for he is speak-

ing peace to 

his to his faith-

ful people, and 

to those who 

turn their 

hearts to him.

Thursday

                                                      

                                                  Psalm 116:6

  Turn 

  again 

  to 

  your 

  rest, 

  O 

  my 

  soul, 

  for the Lord has treated you well.

  

Tonight we remember not Matthew a first century, but a 20th century follower of Jesus, Henry Nouwen born in 1932 and died on this date in 1996: Priest, author, spiritual guide and treasure seeker.

                                            Matthew 13:44 

The 

king-dom 

of 

God 

is like 

treasure  

hidden in a field 

 

"We have been chosen 

to make our own limited 

+ very conditional love 

the gateway for the un-

limited + unconditional

love of God. "

Saint Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist

                                                     Romans 10:8

    the word 

    is very 

    near you,  

    in your 

    heart and 

    on your lips 

We pray that, in the midst of our busy lives and activities this day, 

we too may may with ready wills and hearts obey the calling of our Lord to follow him 

- Collect for St Matthew 

Plus cá change, plus chest la même chose!*

                                                             Psalm:  78:29b,30a

 God 

gave 

them 

what  

they craved, 
but they did not stop their craving 
*“The more things change, the amore that are the same.”

  - Blaise Pascal. And he lived  in the  17th century!