Saturday night

                                            ____________Psalm 116:10,11_

         How shall I

 repay the Lord 

for all the good 

   things he has 

 done for me? I 

 will lift up the

          cup of salvation 

         and  call upon the Name of the Lord.

Saturday of the Labor Day Week-end, and the last day of August, 2019*

                        _Psalm 20:1a, 2___________________     

  

  May  

     the 

  Lord 

    an-

  swer 

   you 

    in 

     the 

        day of trouble, send you help 

                            and strengthen you. 

Our Celtic friends,

* Aidan, 851 and 

Cuthbert,  684, 

Bishops of Lindesfarne 

<-The latter acquiesced to the Council of Whitby in 663, accepting Roman practices over those of the English Church, thus avoiding  a split between the Celtic and Roma

factions. 

       

Gives us, 

 like them, 

  loving hearts,

    gentle spirits 

      & the grace to 

        live as they did, 

            in simplicity, 

               humility and

                  love for the poor

Friday evening

                                    ___Psalm 22: 7b- 10a______

\ 

 

       

      They curl

        their lips 

       and wag 

   their heads, 

   saying;“He 

     trusted in 

   the Lord; let

    him deliver

  him; let him 

  rescue him, if he delights in him.” 

                 Yet you are he who took me 

            out of the womb  and kept 

        me safe upon my mother’s 

   breast. I have been entrusted

to youever since I was born.

Friday, August 30, 2019*

                                                              __ I Kings 6:2, 7_

 

     The house

      that King 

      Solomon 

      built for 

      the Lord…

     was built

     with stone

     finished at 

     the quarry, 

     so that nei-

     ther ham-

     mer nor ax

     nor any tool of iron  was heard 

     in the temple while it was being built.

*Charles 

  Chapman 

  Grafton, 

1830-1912

Second Bishop of 

Fond du Lac WI

ecumenist and

founder of the 

Sisterhood of the 

Holy Nativity,

who freaked 

people out by

inviting the Russian Ortho-dox Bishop Tikho

and the Old Cath-

olic Bishop An-

thony Koslowski

to not just at-

tend, but to 

participate in

the consecra-

ation of his successor.

Thursday evening

                       ___________Antiphon on Part 2: Psalm 18_

     You, 

O Lord,

 are my 

   lamp; 

O God, 

      you

       make my darkness bright. 

Thursday, August 29,2019*

                    ______________________Psalm 18:1a,2a_

      

  

        I

   love 

   you, 

      O 

 Lord, 

    my  

         strength, O God, my rock 

                     in whom I put my trust 

 * John Bunyan 

    1628-1288

      author of 

Pilgrim’s Progress.

   O God of peace, 

 you call us to be
  valiant for truth 

 as strangers + 
 pilgrims in this 

 land- Collect

Haha! I never noticed that today was John Bunyan! Quite wonderful for Gordon and  I were married 49 years ago today and he was quite a pilgrim.

Wednesday evening

______________Intercessions_

That 

your 

holy 

angels

may

lead

us in 

paths 

of 

peace

and

goodwill.

Wednesday, August 28, 2019

                                _______Collect for Grace_ 

       




       You 

       have 

    brought 

       us in 

      safety 

     to this 

    new day; 

    preserve

     us with 
        your mighty power

* Augustine of Hippo  

      354-430

  theologian and bishop. 

 he died as the Vandals 

 were besieging the city. 

You have made us 

for yourself, O Lord, 

and our hearts are rest-

less until they rest in you. 

Tuesday, August 27, 2019*

  _Psalm 5:3_______

  

 In the

 morning, 

 Lord, you 

  hear my voice; 

  early in the

  morning 

  I make my 

  appeal and 

  watch for you.                 

* Thomas Gallaudet, 

     1822-1902,  &

HenryWinter Syle, 

1846-1890, priests.  

The former, whose mother was deaf and whose father began a school for the deaf, began the  ministry to the deaf in the Epis-copal Church. He encouraged the latter, who had lost his hearing as a child,  and he became the  first deaf person
to be ordained a priest in the Church. 

Monday evening

                     _______________________Monday Collect _

        

       grant 

          that 

          we, 

       being 

      deliv-

        ered 

         from the fear of all enemies, 

                      may live in peace and quietness 

Monday August 26, 2019

                      ___________Acts 26:16_

  

 I ap-

point 

 you 

  to 

serve 

 and 

test-

  ify 

  to 

 the 

  th-

 ings 

  in

 whi-

  ch 

 you

 have 

 seen me, 

 and in those 

 in which I will appear to you

Sunday evening

              ________________________Psalm 113:3_

 From 

  the 

rising 

of the 

  sun

to its

setting,

let the Name of the Lord be praised. 

Sunday, August 25, 2019 the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first slave ship on these shroes.

                         

                          _______Galatians 3:27,28_

      As many of  

     you as were 

     baptized into 

       Christ have 

   clothed  your-

       selves with 

     Christ.There 

      is no longer 

  Jew or Greek, 

   there is no longer slave or free, 

   there is no longer a male or female;

   for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.

Saturday evening

________              _________________Psalm______________       

                             __________________________________Psalm 104:4_

   

You 

 make 

  the  

   winds 

       your 

         messengers 

              and flames of fire your servants.

Saturday, August 24, 2019, Bartholomew, Apostle,

                         ______________________Psalm 144:3,4_

  

O Lord, 

    what 

       are  

        we 

    that 

     you 

should  

care for 

us, mere mortals that you should think 

of u? We are like a puff of wind, our 

days, are like a passing shadow. 

Bartholomew is known to us only by his being one of the 12 called by Jesus   to follow him.  His very name means  “Son of Tolmai. ” Both he and the verse  so perfectly combine the infinitesimal and inifinty in between which we live and move and have our being.

Friday evening

               ________________Mark 12: 38, modified_ 

  

   Jesus 
    said,
     “Be-
    ware 
         of
   those
     who 
      like to be greeted with respect in
      the marketplace and have the
      best seats  and places of
      honor at banquets” 

Friday, August 23, 2019*

 _Psalm 142:3a______________

When 

my 

spirit 

lang-

uishes 

within 

me, you 

know 

my 

path

* Rosa de  

Lima , 1617 

Martin De 
Porres, 1639 
& Toribio Mogrovejo 1606, 
Witnesses to the faith in Peru. 

Help us 
to follow 
their example
in bringining  fear-
lessly the comfort of
your grace to all
downtrodden and  downcast people, that your church may
be renewed with songs of salvation and
praise  - Collect 

Thursay evening

                                        _______Mark 12:28, 29_  

 

               

                

                 

                 One

              of the 

            scribes 

               came 

                and 

             asked 

           “Which 

              is the first 

                     commandment?”