Tuesday, the last day of April

                                                                           Romans 12:2 

Do 
not

be 
con-
formed 
to this world, 
but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.  

Monday

 Antiphon on Psalm 57

Awake, lute & harp; 

I myself will waken the dawn.

Friday

                                                               
Psalm 105:4 

Search 
for
the 
Lord 
and 
his 
strength, 
continually 
seek 
his 
face      

Thursday

                                                                      Collect for Guidance 

So 
guide & govern us by your Holy Spirt that in all the cares and occupations of our life 
we may not forget you but may ever remember that we are walking in your sight

I came in intending to use a great picture my brother Kirk took a few years ago of the financial district in San Francisco, but then I cam across this pictures and was reminded that no matter our location and stage of life, whether our surroundings are busy or peaceful, there are cares and occupations - even if it's trying to get my blog done and be on my way out the door to church on time! - that can overwhelm us and tempt us away from our Center and all we need to do is to remember.

The Venite

 The Venite

the 

sea 

is 

his 

for 
he 

made it

I had started the Venite - that hymn that has begun Morning Prayer for thousands of people for thousands of years in monasteries and convents and hermitages, in cathedrals  and parish churches and homes, and I stopped at this phrase and this particular picture came to me. I have stopped here so many times! that I thought it could not be the verse. So I silently said  “Let me know if  this is really it” and tentatively went on.  Having inquired,  the antiphon on the psalm for the morning made me laugh:  “You will answer me, O Lord, my God...”  OK.  "Today if you hear his voice, harden not your heart” it says somewhere in the New Testament , so I am surely not the first to rest in this psalm verse. (The Venite is actually Palm 95) ... So that was it. And I went back to it. As I sat with this phrase, this time,  I was drawn to the beginning of Genesis... The land was divided from the water on the third day, on the fourth day , the sun was created, along with the moon and the stars, and the fishes you see here on the fifth day of the 7 days of creation.  I speak here not literally but poetically, for the Bible does not teach science, but truth.  I think of this verse and I see the ocean as I know and love it, but  “in the beginning  the earth was a formless void ,while a wind from God swept over the waters.”  Not what I had in mind! I  finished my meditation and came in here do my daily post. When I actually brought up the picture ,I had to simile because it’s all  there -  the sea, the sun, the fishes and seaweed.... The sea is God's for he made it and it is good. 

The Tuesday after the Patriot Day Boston Marathon

                                                                                    I John 4:8 

Who-ever does not love does not know God, for God is love. 

Monday Evening Prayer

                                                                                      Psalm 9:10

Those who know your Name will 
put their trust in you, for you never 

forsake those who seek you, O Lord.

Render unto Caesar day...

                                                 Easter antiphon on Psalm 25

All the paths of the Lord are love and faithfulness, hallelujah. 

The Third Sunday of Easter

                                                     Collect of the day 

open 

the 

eyes 

of 

our 

faith.... 

A long forgotten, undated poem remembered by Anne my long-ago Matron of Honor and a picture from my cousin Diane

Walk barefoot 

          in my love, 

in the lushness 

         of my smile, 

           shine, 

    bloom 

 with the spring 
             we share, 

    bloom, 

      that we may
       together
              in fall, 

                grow old.

Saturday

                                         The Book of Daniel 3: 1-30

Shad-rach, Mesh-ach, and Aben-dego came out ... their hair was not singed, their tunics were not harmed and not even the smell of fire 

came from them. 

My 65th birthday!

                                                           Easter Antiphon: Psalm 16 

  

You 

will 
show 
me 
the path of life, hallelujah. 

The irony is that I came in to the computer looking for a picture of a path... and I found them aplenty - paths in the mountains, paths by streams, paths through meadows and deserts, bridges, stairs.... and then I came to this one. And it was it.... “I will make you a path in the sea...” says the Lord.... And so he has, so he does. 

The Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury 1012

                       Psalm 18:20

He brought me out into an open place; 
he rescued me because he delighted in me. 

Wednesday evening

                                                                                              John 17:15, 20

                       Holy Father, protect them... I ask not only on behalf of these, but 
also on behalf of all those who 
will believe in me through 
their word, that they
 all may be one. 

Midweek

                                                                      Easter Antiphon on 
                                                    the Aleph section of Psalm 119 

Happy
are they 
who walk 
in the 
law of 
the Lord. 
Hallelu-jah. 

Today the Roman calendar commemorates the amazing Teilhard de Chardin, mystic, scientist, priest and writer, though published and consequently only widely known only after his death. (1881-1955)

     

                                I John 2:6

whoever 
says “I have

fellowship 

with him” 

ought to 

walk 

just as he 

walked. 

After the Yes

                                                          Collect for the Feast of the Incarnation

Pour your grace 

into our hearts, 

O Lord, that as 

we who have known 

the incarnation 

of your Son Jesus Christ, announced 

by an angel to

the Virgin Mary, 

so may by his 

cross and passion 

be brought to the  glory of the resurrection... 

The Feast of the Annunciation, transferred

The Second Sunday of Easter

                                                                                                             I Peter 2:9

You 

are a chosen race, 

a royal priest-hood, a holy nation, God’s own people, in order that you may proclaim the mighty acts of him 

who called you out of darkness 

into his marvelous light. 

Evening Prayer for Saturday in Easter Week

                              Collect for Saturday in Easter Week  

as your Son has re-called us to life, so by his love may he raise us to eternal joys 

Saturday in Easter Week

                                                     The Pascha nostrum

since 

by 

a man 

came death, 

by 

a man 

came also the resurrection of the dead

The Pasha nostrum is used at Morning Prayer in Easter week instead of the Venite., As in almost everything in Episcopal worship, it is Biblical, taken from i Corinthians 5:7-8, Romans 6:9-11 

and I Corinthians 15: 20-22

Friday evening

                                                                          Psalm 118: 5

I called to the Lord
in my 
distress; The Lord answered by setting me free. 

Friday in Easter Week

                                                                         The Pascha nostrum    

The death 
that he died,
he died to sin, 
once, for all; 
but the life 
he lives, 
he lives to God.

Thursday in Easter Week

                                               Ezekiel  37:14

                      I will 

                       put 

               my spirit 

                   within 

                      you

                     and 

                     you 

               shall live 

Wednesday in Easter week

                                                           Pascha nostrum and Like 24:31

Christ our pass-over 
is 
sacri-ficed for us; there-for let us keep the feast.
Their eyes  were opened and they recognized him 

Tuesday in Easter Week

                                         The Pascha nostrum 
                                                      at Morning Prayer 

as 

in 
Adam 
all 
die, 
so 
also
in 
Christ shall all be made alive.

Monday Evening Prayer

Grant 
that all 
who are 
baptized 
into the 
death 
of Jesus Christ 
your Son 
may live
in the power 
of his resurrection

Easter Monday

                                                                     The Pascha nostrum 

                                                                                 at Morning Prayer

     
       
     Christ 
     being raised

     from the dead 

     will never
     die again; 

     death 

     no longer 

     has dominion

     over him