the summer solstice

1 Samuel 3:9 

Speak,
Lord, 
for 
your 
servant 
is
lstening 

Thursday

                                                                                                         Psalm 34:14

Turn from evil and do good; seek peace 
and pursue it. 

Wednesday

Collect for Grace 

                                                                                                    

You have 

brought us 
in safety 
to this 
new day: 
Preserve us 
with your 
mighty 
power....

Tuesday

  1 Samuel 2:9

 Not 

Not 

by 

might 

does 

one

prevail

Evening pPrayer

                                                                                                        Phos hileron  

Now as we come to the setting 

of the sun, and our eyes behold the vesper  light, 

we sing your praises... 

O Son of God, Giver of life and to be glorified through all the worlds.

Monday

                                             Psalm 80:14 

 

             behold 
             and 

             tend 

             this 

             vine, 
             preserve 
             what 
             your 
             right 
             hand 
             has planted.  

Happy Father's Day to all of you!

  Psalm 96:a1, 2a

Sing 

to the 

Lord 

a new 

song; 

Sing 

to the 

Lord 

and 

bless 

his 

name. 

Evelyn Undererhill, author and teacher (1875-1941)

                                      2 Corinthians 12:11   

                        live in 

            peace  
            and 
            the 
            God of 
            peace 
            will
            be 
            with 
            you.

The 4th c. Cappadocian Fathers, Basil the Great, Gregory of Nazianzus and Gregory of Nyssa have belatedly but blessedly been joined by the latter's sister, Macrina.

  2 Corinthians 12:14

I 

do 

not 

want 

what 

is 

yours, 

but 

you

Thursday

                                                                                         Psalm 71:8

I have been sustained by you ever since I was born;      

from 
my 
mother’s 
womb 
you 

have

been

my 

strength; my praise shall always be of you.                                             

In our own calendar today we remember with thanksgiving the first recognized Native American priest of the Episcopal Church, Enmegahbowh whose name means "The One who Stands Before His People."

                             2 Corinthians 11:29

Who is weak and I am not weak? Who is made to stumble and I an not in-dignant? 

St Barnabas, apostle

Psalm 116:6

Turn 
again 
to your 
rest, O 
my soul, 
for 
the Lord 
has 
treated 
you well. 

Barnabas was a nickname meaning 

“son of encouragement.” He vouched for the authenticity of Saul’s/ Paul's  conversion. Like Paul, he is 

called an apostle although they were not 

of the original 12. Prayers 

are suggested or preachers, 

for reconciliation for those at variance with one another and 

for Cypress (where he was born) 

and Turkey. 

Columba, Abbot of Iona 579

                                                                            Psalm 56:11a, 12

 I am bound by the vow 

I made to you, O God; For you have redeemed my soul  from death 

and my feet from stumbling, that I may 

walk before God in the land of the living. 

                                   “That (person) is little envied... whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Iona. Perhaps in the revolutions of the world,Iona may be sometime again the instructress of the western region. ”  -Samuel Johnson  In 1938 a Glasgow minister of the Church of Scotland,founded the Iona Community, to restore the church and the spiritual life of the island. 
                                        From New Festivals and Commemorations. 

Sunday Evening Prayer

                                                                                       Today’s Forward Day by Day   

For most 
of us, 
life does not move 
in a straight line, but more like a meandering river. 
Visions are dreamt, lost, recovered, 
lived out in new ways, but in every 
moment we move toward the sea. 

Sunday

                                                                                    The Benedictus

In the tender com-passion of our God 
the dawn from 
on high shall break upon us, 
to shine on those who dwell 
in darkness and the shadow of death 
and to guide our feet into the way of peace.  

Saturday morning: They don' call it June Gloom for nuthin'

    2 Corinthians 9:6

The

point 

is this: 

those 

who 
sow 

sparingly 

will 
reap 

sparingly...

Friday

                                                                                                                                  A Collect for Friday 

Grant to us 

your servants 

so to follow

in faith 

where you have 

led the way 

that at length 

we may  fall asleep

peacefully in you 

and wake up in your likeness 

Evening Prayer

   Charles Peguy  God Speaks 

Hope 

is the 

shoot,

and 

the 
bud 

of the 

bloom 

of 
eternity 

itself. 

Thursday

                                                 Psalm 50:14

Offer 
to God a sac-rifice 
of thanks-giving, and make good your vows to the Most High. 

Evening Prayer

                                                                          Charles Peguy God Speaks  

Faith is she who remains steadfast during centuries and centuries.
Charity is she who gives herself during centuries and centuries.
But my little hope is she Who rises every morning.

St Boniface, Missionary to Germany and Martyr, 754

   Psalm 119:49

Remember 

your 

word 

to 

your 

servant, 

for 

you 

have 

given 

me 

hope. 
Remember 
your 
word 

The Commemoration of John XXIII, Bishop of Rome from 1958-1963: Renewer of the Church (b.1881)

                                                                   Benedictus es, Domine

Glory to you, be-hold-ing the depths; in the high vault of heaven glory to you. Glory to you, Father, Son and Holy Spirit; we will praise you 
and highly exalt you for ever. 

The Lutheran  Book suggests prayers for: 

*the renewal and unity of the Church. 

*humility and humor.

*the Spirit of love and service

*openness to the surprises of God 

Monday Evening Prayer

                                Forward Day by Day

                                                        Meditation on Luke 12:1-10

Who 
doesn’t 
have a  mustard 
seed’s 
worth of 
faith? 
You already have everything you need. 

Beginning of the work week

                                                                  II Corinthians 5:17, 18

if anyone is 

in Christ, 

there is a 

new creation... 

All this is 

from God,

who reconciled us to himself 

in Christ, 

and has given us the ministry of reconciliation. 

Sunday

                                                                          Matthew 13:47

the king-dom 

of 
hea-ven 
is like 
a net 
that was thrown into the 
sea & caught fish of every kind

June Saints and Seasons article

 Saints & Seasons 

            So much of our lives are ... ordinary. Cooking and cleaning, mowing the lawn and going to work, taking the kids to piano lessons and ball games and parties, changing the bed; in short,  juggling the hundred things that need to be done. Just ordinary. And here we are entering into what is sometimes called “ordinary time.” The longest season of the church year, it continues until late November, when the year culminates in Christ the King and falls quietly back into I Advent and we begin again. The color of the season is green, the color of growth. One year, ages ago, in the old church, Fr Lief brought a little eugenia tree into church and let it grow all throughout the season just as a reminder.  It’s name was Eugenia. 

Until the 1979 Prayer Book (which some of us still call the New Prayer Book!) the season was called Trinity or Trinity-tide. It was changed for ecumenical reasons to The Season of Pentecost so now all of our readings at the Sunday Eucharists are the same in the Roman Catholic, Lutheran and Episcopal churches.  But the season of Pentecost begins with Trinity Sunday, one of my favorite days. It reminds me that even the Holy One is a community of love flowing form the one to the other. It is matrix in which we live and move and have our being. We are created by God the Father, redeemed by the Son and sanctified, indwelt, inspired by the Holy Spirit, not once but over and over again over our long lives. Or over a short one. 

If we could but remember this, that we live and breathe within the Holy Trinity, that we not only have access to this Love, but that we actually participate in this Life, no task would be small, no day would be ordinary, for 

The word is charged with the grandeur of God.

It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;

It gathers to a greatness like an ooze of oil 

Crushed. And why do men now not reck his rod?

Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;

And all is smeared with trade; bleared with toil;

And wears man’s smudge and shares

man’s smell: the soil  Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod. 

And for all this, nature is never spent; 

There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;

And though the last lights off the black West went

Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, spring -

Because Holy Ghost over the bent

World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings. 

Gerard Manley Hopkins

  19th c. English priest and poet

                                           Louise Buck 

                                                                                                      June 2013

June 1: Justin, Christian apologist and martyr at Rome, ca 165

                                  Psalm 30:7-8

While I felt se-cure I said, “I shall never be disturbed. 
You, Lord, are as 
strong as the mountains.” 
Then you hid your face 
and I was filled with fear. 

The Lutheran New Book of Festivals.... reads “A perennial  necessity for Christianity is to make connections between the claims of the gospel and the needs and interests of the current age, while clearing away misunderstandings, prejudices and slanders. ” It says that Justin is perhaps the greatest such figure between the apostles and Irenaeus.  Justin is celebrated today in both the East and the West.

Prayers today are suggested for:

*Those who search for truth, especially philosophers and theologians.

*Those who defend the faith against the doubts of those who  cannot believe. 

* those who preserve and interpret the liturgical traditions of the church.

   

               “No one believes in Socrates to the  point of dying for what he taught... but for the sake of Christ not only phil-osophers and scholars but even laborers and uneducated people  have scorned fame, fear and death.” Justin