Sunday July 29, 2018

                                                  _________________Psalm 24:1

    The 

    earth 

    is the 

    Lord’s 

    and all 

    that is 

    in it; 

    the world  

    and all who dwell therein.

                            *

                the first command God gave 

   to Adam and Eve was to tend the garden_

Saturday evening

 __Based on tomorrow’s Collect___ 

O God,  

without 

you,no-

thing is 

strong  

nothing 

is holy… 

With you 

as pro-

tector 

and guide

may we 

so pass 

through 

things 

temporal 

that we

lose not 

the things 

eternal   

Saturday, July 28, 2018

                                                    __________Satuday  antiphon on   

                                           Canticle 12  ___________________

                

        

          Glorify 

          the Lord, 

         O mountains

         and all hills;  

         and all that

         grows upon 

         the earth; 

         praise him  and highly exalt him for ever.

 Today we celebrate music! Specially the composers  Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 -1750) Frederick Handel  (1685–1759) and Henry Purcell (1659–1695) who died at 36

  

Be with those who write or 

                                                      make music for your people, that 

                                              we on earth may glimpse your beauty 

                                       and know the inexhaustible riches of your 

                                new creation in Jesus Christ  - Collect

Friday evening

                                  _________________________Psalm 51:11

  

 

 Create 

 in me a 

    clean 

    heart, 

O God, 

  and renew a right spirit within me. 

Friday, 27 July, 2018*

                  ______________Matthew 27:3,4 

When 

 Judas, 

the bet-

rayer,

saw 

that 

Jesus 

was 

condemned to death, he repented and brought back the 30 pieces of silver to the chief 

priests & the elders. He said “I have 

sinned by betraying innocent 

blood.”              

                         But they said,  

                            What is that to us?"

* William Reed Huntington   1838-1909 

 American priest, 

ecumenist, statesman, 

+ liturgical scholar. As a member of the House of Deputies (which, along  + 

with the House of Bishops is the governing body of 

the Episcopal Church in the US,) his proposal lead to the revision of the Prayer Book of 1892, “providing hitherto unknown flexibility + significant enrichment.”
He is the author of The Collect for Monday in Holy Week which doubles as the Friday Collect at Morning Prayer.

                    Almighty God,whose most dear Son went not up to joy but first he suffered pain,  and entered not into glory before he was 

crucified: Mercifully grant that we, 

walking in the way of the cross, 

may find it none other than

 the way of life and peace,           

through Jesus Christ                         *

our Lord. Amen. 

Thursday evening

                      ______________________Romans 15:13 

      

  

  

 May 

the God 

 of hope 

 fill you 

with all 

joy and 

peace in

  believ-

    ing so

         that you may abound in hope 

               by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Thursday, July 26, 2018*

 Psalm 50:14 (Mat26:69,70)

Offer 

to God 

a sacrifice 

of thanks-

giving and 

make good 

your vows to 

the Most High.

 *Joachim and Anne, 

by centuries-long tradition, the Parents of the the Blessed Virgin Mary.

    

 ** *      

  we pray that we all may be made one in the heavenly family of your Son -Collect

Wednesday eveing

                                ________________Matthew 10:16

       See,

      I am 

     sending 

       you 

       into 

       the 

      midst 

        of 

     wolves; 

      so be 

        wise as serpents

           and innocent as doves.  
         Jesus said to his dear ones                                  

Wednesday, July 25, 2018, St James the Apostle

                    _______________________Psalm 34:8

 

      

      

     

      Taste 

       and 

       see 

       that 

       the Lord is good, 

       happy are they who trust in him.   

           __________________ 

 St James became one of Jesus’ inner circle. He and his brother John were fishermen nicknamed by Jesus nicknamed “Boanerges,” the Sons of Thunder, being hot headed.

According to 

biblical accounts,  

James was martyred by King 

Herod and,  by tradition his body , 

taken to Compostela Spain  Yes,

THAT Santiago de Compostela)

The Camino remains a popular route for pilgrims and hikers today.  

The photogrpahs are by my cousin Christina who walked the Camino  with her sister Nelia in 2015. The figs go  

with the verse because I remember 

our paternal grandmother picking figs 

from the garden, peeling, slicing and serving them to me with cream and sugar when I was really little.  Yum! 

I picked the picture of St James because it has his brother John and his father Zebedee and the story of our cll always involes others. 

      

Where we begin does not look much like where we end up, and therein lies the tale for us all.  

Tuesday evening

                                      ______________Romans 8:7,8

       If we live,    

       we live to 

       the  Lord, 

       and if we 

       die, we 

       die, to  

       the Lord; 

       so then, 

       whether

       we live, or

       whether we die, we are the Lord’s. 

                    This has proven to be wonderfully solid ground for me on occasion.  

Tuesday, July 24, 2018*

 _Joshua 8:1____________________________

Do 

not 

fear 

or be 

dismayed

*Thomas á Kempis 1380-1471 

 Priest and author of the classic,          The Imitation of Christ

 which always seems such an unfortunate title since to "imitate” Christ one must become  uniquely oneself, one’s true

 self as another Thomas (Merton) 

would say centuries later. Perhaps  

a good reminder that in all things 

spitiutual you cannot simply take 

the sureface meaning...

                      “Know all

        and you will 

        pardon all.”

___________________*________________

Musings: The MP readings were a challenge- Psalm 45 which is all about the king, (the earthy king) - Joshua be-ing told to ambush and burn and destroy the city of Ai, (hardly a salubrious or even acceptable example for today’s world on the face of it!) And the whole was topped off by Judas’ betrayal of Jesus, ushering in his death… and resurrection. Looking at our world today - from wherever you stand - we are in a  mell of a hess.

And yet the Word of the Lord, insistent and persistent, was “Do not fear or be dismayed…”  And there was no other. Believe me - I looked!  In AA you hear “Take what you like and leave the rest,” which turns out to have an implied “right now” - later it’ll make more sense … just file it away.” So the word of the Lord to me is : don’t get your panties in a bunch. Live the life I have called you to today. Just today. You don’t have to know how it all fits together. Remember, "Easy does it but DO IT.” And as my grandmother Molly used to say “Underneath are the everlasting arms.”