Merry Christmas!

          Let
           heaven 
          and nature sing

                          HECK!  Today  let heaven IN nature sings!

                             

Christmas eve, 2019

                    __________Antiphon on the Magnificat tonight_

To us 

a child 

is born, 

to us 

a son 

is given, 

and he 

shall be called 

the Prince of Peace, alleluia.

Tuesday December 24, 2019 Morning, and Christmas eve

 _IV Advent Collect_

Purify our 

conscience 

Almighty 

God by  

your daily

visitation

__________________________John 1:4-5, modified_ 

  What 

     has 

  come 

    into 

  being 

in him 
was life

    … The

    light
  shines 
  in the darkness and the darkness did not,
  has not, will not, cannot overcome it. 

Monday Evening Prayer

___________________O Antiphon: Dec 23_

         

         O 

     Em-

manu-

el, our 

   King 

     and 

       Lawgiver, the Desire of all na-

           tions, & their Salvation: 

                   Come  & save us,  

                   O Lord our God. 

___________________________________

Monday, December 23, 2019

                     ________Zephaniah 3:17_

            The 

            Lord 

            your 

            God  

            is in 

            your 

            midst

Sunday evening

                                 ________________O Antiphon: Dec 22_

  

        O 
    King
   of  the 
         na-

    tions

      and

    their

 Desire,

      you

are the

 corner

-stone

    that

    makes us  both one: Come and

    save the creatures whom you 

    have fashioned from clay.

Sunday, December 22, 2019, being IV Advent!

                                             _Advent Ant: Ps 24_

Blow the 

      trumpet 

            in Zion, 

       for the day

      of  theLord  

       is…at hand. 

            Behold, 

                he comes to save us, 

                                           hallelujah.  

Saturday evening

     _____________________________Psalm 27: 17 _

                                  What if I had not believed  

                        that I would seethe goodness 

         of  the Lord in the land of the living!

__________________________________________

                           _________O Antiphon: December 21_ 

          O Dayspring,

              Brightness 

            of the Light 

            eternal, and 

                    Sun of 
        Rightousness: 

              Come and

                 enlighten

                    those who sit in darkness 

                         and the shadow of death.

Saturday, December 21, 2019 the Feast of St Thomas, Apostle

                                          ________I Peter 1:8_

             Although 

             you have 

             not seen 

             him you love him 

 and the Winter Solstice

https://youtu.be/U0aL9rKJPr4

Friday evening

                             

                                                           O Antiphon: Dec 20

   O Key 

 of David, 

+Scepter 

of the house 

of Israel, 

you open+ 

no one can 

shut, you 

shut +no one

can open; Come and bring the 

captives out of the prison 

house, those who sit 

indarkness and the 

shadow of death. 

Friday, December 20, 2019

                      _________________Zachariah 7:8 9-10_

  Thus 

   says

the Lord 

of  hosts: 

     Render 

    true

    judg-

  ments, 

   show 

kindness 

& mercy 

 to one 

another; 

do not oppress the widow, the orphan, 
the alien or the poor; and do not
devise evil in your hearts 
against one another.

Thursday evening

____________________________O Antiphon:_Dec_18_

 O Adonai +Leader of the house 
 of David, you appeared in the
 bush to Moses in a flame of 
 fire +gave him the law on
 Mount Sinai.      Come 
         and redeem us 
with an outstretched arm.

Thursday, December 19, 2019

                __________________Zechariah 4:6_

        

    Not 

       by 

might 

nor by 

power, 

but by 

my Spirit,  says the Lord____________

Wednesday, December 18, 2019

                                                       _Psalm 1 119:49_____________ 

    

                         

                        Re-

                member

                     your 

                   word 

               to  your 

               servant 

               because you have given me hope. 

Tuesy night, the first O Antipjon, the real countdown toChristmas begins

Tuesday, December 17, 2019

                             _Zachariah 2:19______________ 

  Sing

   and 

rejoice, 

O dau-

 ghter 

  Zion! 

   For 

   I will come and will in your midst

             And Elizabeth! He will come! 

                  He HAS come. In me. 

                     Isn't that crazy??

Monday, December 16, 2019

 _Sunday Collect_____________

_Come among us_ 

Sunday night

  _Collect_____________  

Stir up 

your  power,  

O Lord, &… 

come among 

us … let your 

bountiful grace 

& mercy speedily 

help & deliver us

III Advent* December 15, 2019

Before 

me 

there 

was 

no 

God 

formed

  Antiphon on last night’s Magnificat  

The Third Sunday of Advent is called Rose Sunday because the 

candle is rose or pink. 

It’s also called Gaudete Sunday because, back in the day, when we didn’t have a 3 year liturgical cycle, but 

the same readings year after year, 

the Gospel (?) of the day began 

Gaudete, Latin for Rejoice.  

This actually comes from the Latin mass so is
from the Roman Catholic side. This correction
comes from that side of the aisle...  “Oops.
Gaudete is the first word of the Introit (En-
trance[verse]) today! (Which we do not use.)
 “Rejoice always. Again I say, rejoice!”  

Merci! There is a PLETHORA of bad infor-
matiom today which I am glad not to add to.
It'sgoodto have freinds! 

Prayer on the Eve of the Third Sunday of Advent as we await the coming of the of the Prince of Peace.

                           ________________________Psalm 42:6-7_  

     

     Why 

        are 

       you 

    so full

 of heavi-

  ness, O 

my soul? 

       And 

  why so 

 disquiet-

 ed with-

  in me?

Put your

   trust in

 God, for 

I will yet 

  give thanks to him, 

        who is the help of my  

           countenance and my God. 

Saturday, December 14, 2019

                            ____________Psalm 30:2 

  

          

             O 

         Lord, 

       my God, 

    I cried out

  to you &you 

restored me to health.

Friday the 13th of December, 2019

                 ____________________Psalm 31:24_

   

Be strong and 

let your * take courage, 

all you who wait for the Lord.