All Hallows Eve

                                                _________The Revelation toJohn 19:9_

    

       

  

  ”Blessed

    are they 

   who are 

     invited 

      to the

         marriage supper of theLamb”

The Last Day of October, 2020

                                                _______________________Luke 12:432_

  

           Do

        not 

       be 

     afraid, 

little flock; 

  it is your 

    Father’s 

     good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

 

  Stay awake & be ready to do the work of the kin-dom 

                                   Give Us This Day from 10-21-20

Friday evening

                                         ______________________Psalm 51:13_

          Give 

         us 

    the joy 

    of your 

    saving 

    help a-

    gain, & 

    sustain 

     us 

      with 

        your 

          bountiful 

             Spirit.

The last Friday in October, and in daylight savings time, for 2020

                                                           _Psalm 40:12,13_______________________

      You 

         are 

            the 

             Lord; 

            do not

        withhold 

       your com-

           passion

        from me; 

  l et your love 

       and your  

  faithfulness 

   keep me safe forever, 

     for innumerable troubles have crowd-

       ed up on me… and my heart fails me.  

Thursday drifting into evening

                      _An Antiphon on Psalm 60___________

    

 

     Grant 

         us 

      your

      help, 

       O

     God, 

       for 

      vain

        is  

       the 

      help

        of 

      man. 

Thursday morning

 

 Are not 5

sparrows

sold for 2

pennies? 

Yet not 

one of 

them is 

forgotten 

in Gods sight 

Wednesday night

        

Turn 

  again 

   to

    your

       rest, 

         O 

           my  

               soul,

                 for the Lord  has treated you well. 

 

Wednesday, 28 October, 2020, The Feast of Saint Simon and Saint Jude, apostles

                                                        ______________saiah 26:11b-13a_

     

 …. he will speak 

in his people to 

    whom he has

     said, “This is 

  rest; give rest 

    to the weary;

          and this is 

      repose;” yet

they would not 

      hear. There-

  fore the word 

       of the Lord 

              will be 

                to  them “Precept upon precept, 

                   precept upon precept, line upon 

                      line line upon line, here a little, 

                                                        there a little.” 

Just before reading this, 

I had been texting with a friend; without that, this would have been just blah blah again… So when I read it, it just Popped - DO what you’re supposed to do and  then God’s will/word will not seem like just demand upon endless demand.  I 

never would’ve gotten 

that!! And my friend wrote back, “Yep, this is some-

thing I need to hear right now: “Just do the damn 

work, bud!” Which  shows to go me once again 

that Christianty is not a solitary pursuit.

Tuesday, 27 October, 2020

                           _________________________Psalm 45:4_

 

 

         Ride 

      out 

   and 

conquer

in the 

 cause of

   truth  

       and 

          for the  sake of justice.

I knew that was my verse right away 

but, not wanting it to be, I read stead-

fastly on, hoping to find something else …

I am becoming  increasingly allergic to bib-

lical language like this - conquering, dominat-

ing, forcing, overpowering. … it just doesn’t so-

und like the Jesus I know, like the God I wish to ma-

ke known. Not that the Bugger doesn’t get his way! It’s 

not that at all…  But churches have done incalculable 

harm by preaching this “God”- a huge portion of the 

people I've met coming into recovery want nothing 

to do with Him be-cause they have been told that 

he is mean and demandng and  vindictive.And, 

WHO needs that when you’re ALREADY trap-

ped in hell? (I know gentle Jesus who never 

makes any demands isn’t the One I know 

either… but you can’t bifurcate  Him.It’s, 

as they say, complicated, but critical.  

Not withstanding all of that, in my 

heart I knew that what was the 

verse that was given. I began 

to acquiesce -ok, I flat out 

gave in & then the image 

and that settled it. So 

I finished Morning Pr-

ayer, not looking but 

having found.  

Monday evening

______________________________________The Revelation to John 11:1_

  

I was 

given a 

measur-

ing rod 

like a staff a 

and I was told,  

“Come and measure”______________________

Monday, 26 October, 2020

                                                        ______________Luke 19:54-56_

Jesus said 

to the 

crowds, 

“When

you see 

a cloud rising in the west, you immediately say ’It is going to rain’; and so it hap-pens. And when you see the south wind blowing, you 

say, ‘There will be scorching heat’; and it happens. 

You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the 

appearance of earth and sky, but why do 

you not know how to interpret 

the present time!

Sunday evening

                                 _____________________Collect_ 

Increase 

in  us  the 

gifts of faith 

hope and charity, 

and that we may obtain 

what  you promise, teach

us to love what you command. 

Sunday, 25 October, 2020

                             ______________Collect of the Day_

 

   increase 

   in us the  

   gifts of 

     faith, 

       hope 

         and 

           love 

Saturday evening

                                                                    ________________Psalm 138:4_

           

         

          When 

        I called, 

        you an-

         swered 

       me you in-

      creased my 

        strength 

       within me.

Saturday, October 24, 2020​

                                                  ____________________Psalm 55:11_ 

 

Day and 

night the

watchmen 

made their 

rounds upon

the city walls, 

but trouble and misery are in the midst of her.

  

Friday evening

                          ___St Jame's Antiphon on Psalm 122__  

                       

       I 

pray 

  for 

your 

pros-

perity 

  and 

   peace  

    O Jerusalem.

Friday, 23 October, 2020, The Feast of St James of Jerusalem

  __________________Luke 12:22_

 do  

not 

worry

about 

your life

James the Just, 

the brother of Jesus, was converted d after the resurrection.

Thursday evening

                                                    ___________________Psalm 59:10_  

  My eyes 

are fixed 

on you, O 

Lord, you 

   are my

Strength 

  for you 

    you, O  

     God,

      are 

       my 

        stronghold. 

Tuesday, October 22, 2020

                                 ___________________________________Psalm 50:1, 2a_

The Lord, 

the God of

gods, has 

spoken; he 

has called

the earth  

from the

  rising 

      of 

         the sun  to its setting…God reveals himself in glory.

Wednesday evening

                         _________Antiphon: Psalm 49_

       Lay not 

         up for

           your-

          selves 

     treasures 

     in heaven, 

          says 

        the  

     Lord.

Wednesday, October 21, 2020​

  ___Psalm 119:54___  

 

Your  

statutes 

have 

been 

like 

songs 

to me 

whereever 

I have lived 

as a stranger.

 This 

is just 

yakkety 

yak: I sat

 down outside 

with my coffee 

this morning to say 

my prayers and had 

just read this verse, when 

I again noticed  the empty 

hummingbird feeder. It’s been 

empty for weeks, maybe months 

now and whenever I notice I’m in 

the middle of doing something else.I 

make note of it and then forg-et again… 

Today was hte day.  As I was going about 

those simple tasks -   bringing the feeder in, 

cleaning it out and boiling the nectar, I real-

ized that this is my verse. And it fits perfectly. 

Although I’ve lived physically in this same house 

for 40 years, we are all living as strangers in these

days of  racial in/justice and  long-hidden  systemic 

white entitlement, the increasing awareness of the danger of climate change, our unprecedented po-

litical sit-uation, choas and divisive-ness. Oh yes, 

and the glo-bal  pandemic of a novel coronavi-

rus that seems to be out of control with no

national strategy,  and the attendant 

economic consequences.Add to that I

am a mid-20th-century person try-

ing to navigate through this all 

n a language - technology - 

which is not my native 

tongue. All of which 

just says it’s the 

perfect verse - 

not surpri-

singing-

ly, since 

God 

picked it,

but still sur-

prising to me. 

Oh, the humming

bird feeder was re-

plenished and up again  

before I reached the end of Morning Prayer.