Ignatius of Loyola, (1491 - 1556) Priest, Monastic and Founder of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits.)

                                                           Surge, illuminare,  
                                                                   aka Canticle1 11, aka Isaiah 60:1 

 Arise, shine for your light has come and the gory  of the Lord 
has dawned  upon you...

A Tuesday in Summer

                                                                                                     Psalm 62:1a

For 

God 

alone 

my 

soul 

in 

silence 

waits.

"and our eyes behold the vesper light, we sing your praises..."

                                                                   Psalm 65:8b

     you make the dawn and the dusk 

                                            to sing for joy. 

Mary, Martha and Lazarus, friends and disciples ofJesus

                               Forward Day by Day 7/28/13

Read 

the Bible 

very carefully... we bring expec-tations 

to a text without realizing it. 

This passage has often been interpreted as setting the contemplative life of cloistered nuns on a higher level, 

above the  the ordinary life of women bustling in the world. 

At the same time, however, the story shows Jesus challenging 

the type of gender stereotypes that would restrict women to domestic work.  Was Jesus rebuking Martha, or was he sending 

a message to the other male disciples?    

                                  Robert Ellsberg from Blessed Among Us 

Sunday

                                                                       Todays Collect 

grant that, 

with you 
as our ruler &
guide, 
we may 
so pass through things temporal that we lose not the things eternal

I love this collect. I usually think of it in terms of the good times in life drawing us away from “the things eternal.” And so when I got the verse today and came in to look for the right picture, I was looking for something beautiful and perhaps beguiling. I looked at the detail of an ancient mosaic of a dove on a birdbath, the background a brilliant blue. Or a nautilus shell. Or a garden with a beautiful red wooden arch. Or a field of flowers. But then I remembered this watercolor which  I have had it for years - I don’t know who did it or how I got it. (If You do, tell me!) It has always intrigued me, with its two, is it three, figures. I came across it again yesterday in the garage, propped up over the workbench by the Indian figure who sways when you touch her, and I brought it into the house. Then  just now,  looking for the right picture to accompany the verse, it called to me. I scanned it into the computer and entitled it “journey,”  And it was the right picture, though it changed my meditation altogether. I have a friend who is going through a hard time and this too, it whispered, can distract us from the “things eternal.” Pain and fear, loss and diminishment, uncertainty and change can all focus us on ourselves until we are alone in the storm. But the picture shows me, whispers to me, reminds me that we are not alone, without having to use inherently clunky, earthbound, always teetering-on-the-preachy words. What it has whispered to me all these years, without my being conscious of it, is that we are not alone in the storm. And storm it often is, hence the phrase "trudging the Road of Happy Destiny"  in the chapter A Vision for You  in the book Alcoholics Anonymous. Whether it is a beloved spouse or a friend, or God Himself who walks with us, I pray that in this present moment, we may so pass through things temporal that we lose not the things eternal.  

Saturday Evening Prayer

                                             Psalm 138:4

     When I
     called 
     you 
     answered 
     me; you 
     increased
     my 
     strength
     within me. 

Saturday

                                                                                                           Canticle 19

O ruler 

of the 
universe, Lord God,

great 
deeds 
are they that you have done, 
surpassing human understanding. 

Each Friday is a reminder of Good Friday (just as each Sunday is a commemoration of the Resurrection. Which is why saints days that fall on Sunday are moved to the next day.) This is a Friday kind of a question from yesterday's Gospel reading about St James.

                                                                   Matthew 20:22

"Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink?"

St James the apostle

                                                                               Psalm 34:10b

Those who seek the lord lack nothing that is good.

toward evening

Fr Anthony Fleming 

apart from
Christ to 
captain
 my journey 
& the Spirit 
to fill
the sheets, 
my sails flag 
& I stall in
the doldrums,
listless and lost. 

The Commemoration of Thomas a Kempis

Psalm 119:64

The 
earth, 

O Lord, 

is full 

of your 

love; 

instruct 

me in 

your 
statutes. 

Evening and the fog is trying to make its way back onshore

Psalm48:8

We have 

waited 
in silence 
for your 
loving-
kindness, 
O God, 
in the 

midst of 
your temple. 

Yet another gray morning..... BUT COOL!

                                            The Benedictus es 

     Glory 

     to you 

     for the 

     radiance 

     of your 

     HolY Name; 

     we will 

     praise you 

     and highly 

     exalt you 

     for ever.  

The Feast of St Mary Magdalene, apostle to the apostles

 

 Today’s antiphon on Psalm 116

I will 

walk 

in the 

presence 

of the 

presence

Lord 

in the 

land 

of the 

living. 

Another Sunday

                                                                                Romans 12:2

Do not be conformed to this world

                                            but be transformed                             

The Commemoration, in the Eastern Church, of Elijah, the fiery 9th century BC Hebrew Prophet and Reformer*

                                                                                                          Psalm 30 :6

Weep-ing 

may 

spend 

the 

night 

but joy comes in the morning. 

*as well 
as the 
second 
anniversary 
of the death 
of the 
prophet's heir
Bill Mahedy 

Friday

                     Psalm 31:24

Be 

strong 

and 

let 

your 

heart 

take 

courage,

 all you who

 wait for the Lord. 

               
              

July 18

                                                                                Psalm 37:7

Be 

still 

before 

the 

Lord 

wait 

patiently 

for 

him. 

midweek of midmonth

                                           The Venite

in God’s hand are the cav-erns of the earth and the heights 

of the hills are his also 

On the Lutheran calendar we celebrate Ruth the Mobabite and grandmother of King David*

                                                                                      Ruth 1:16

Where

you go, 

I will go: 

Where you 

lodge, 

I will lodge;

 your people

 will be my 

people and 

your God will be my God. Where you die I will die - and there will I be buried. 

*And in the Roman Catholic calendar we celebrate Our Lady 
of Mount Carmel, patroness of the Carmelites . 


                                                                                                   We give thanks especially
 for the life  and witness of the women at the 
Carmelite Monastery of theTrinity in San Diego.


At first I didn’t have the last phrase here, but as I began my mediation I was compelled to come in and put it in. That  puts the cap on it, doesn’t it? The patriarchs always wanted their bones taken back home when their heirs went back. Not so Ruth, ”Where you die, I will die- and there will I be buried” Period. And it makes it a perfect tie in with both feasts! 

Mid-July

                                                                       Antiphon: Psalm 25

           Lead 

           me in 

           your 

           truth, 

           O Lord,

           and 

           teach 

           me. 

                                     it was in Antioch that the 
                                     disciples were first 
                                     called Christians. 
                                     Acts 11:26

Sunday

                                                                The Te Deum laudamus

You are God: 

we praise you; 

You are 

the Lord:
we acclaim you; 

You are the 
eternal Father: 

all creation 
worships you. 

Saturday evening

                                                                                          I Samuel17:40

David 
took 
his 
staff 
in his 
hand 
and 
chose
five 
smooth 
stones ...
and his 
sling in 
his 
hand...

A Saturday in mid-July

                                                         An Antiphon 

                                                         on the Venite in Ordinary Time

     The earth is 
      the Lord’s 
      for he 
      made it:
      Come, 
      let us 
      adore him.

Friday

    Collect at Friday Morning Prayer 

grant 

that we, 

walking 

in the 

way of 

the cross, 

may find it

none other 

than the way 

of life 

and peace

Wednesday afternoon

The culture of well-being, that makes us think of ourselves, that makes us insensitive to the cries of 

others, that makes us live in soap bubbles, that are beautiful but are nothing, 
are illusions of futility, of the transient, that brings indifference to others, that brings even the globalization of indifference. In this world of globalization 
we have fallen into a globalization
 of indifference. Pope Francis
July 8, 2013

The Feast of our father St Benedict and St Scholastica

    Psalm 18: 1a, 2a

I 
love 
you, 

O 
Lord, 

my 
strength

My 
God, 

my 
rock 

in 
whom 

I 
put 
my 

trust 

July 10

                                           Collect for Grace

you have 

brought 

us in safety 

to this new day; 

preserve us 

with your

 mighty power...