Still Peter and Paul

  Galatians 2:8

…he who 
worked 
through 
Peter 
making 
him an 
apostle 
to the circumcised 

also 

worked      

through 

me in 

sending 

me to the 

Gentiles.

The Feast of St Peter and St Paul transferred from yesterday

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                                                  Day by Day

God is always expanding the circle…. It’s easy to believe that what we like is what Gd likes. And sometimes that’s true. 

But 

more often, God is doing something we hadn’t thought of with people we aren't sure about. Our willingness to open 
our circle to them is the 
measure of our faith. 

         

                           “O mortal, stand on your feet, 

                           and I will speak to you…."  Ezekiel 2:1  

Sunday night

   Acts 17:28

In you 

we live 

and move 

and have 

our being

An ordinary Sunday, but the last one in June...

The Venite 

     Oh, that today

     you would hearken 

     to God’s voice!

Our weekly Thursday cele-bration with deacon-to-be-
rec-ocgonized Phil &
Fr Jim. 

Saturday Evening Prayer

                                                     Sunday Collect 

You have 

built the 

church 

upon the 

foundation of

the prophets 

and the apostles, 

Jesus Christ 

himself 

being the 

cornerstone

 “Error never shows itself in naked,
 in order not to be discovered. 
On the contrary, it dresses elegantly, 
so that the unwary may be led to believe 
that it is more true than the truth itself.” 
                                               -Irenaeus  

St Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons. circa 202

                                       Psalm 107:36

God settled the people there and they founded 

a city to dwell in. 

“The glory of God is a human being fully alive.”  -Irenaeus  

                  Irenaeus 

At Evening Prayer

                                                      At Evening Prayer

O God, you

manifest in your servants the signs of your presence; 

send forth upon us the spirit of love that in com-panionship with one another your abounding grace 
may increase among us…  

Suddenly it's the last Friday in June!

                                                         Canticle 10

my thoughts

are  not 

your 

thoughts, 

nor my ways 

your ways, 

says 

the Lord. 

                            If you think you have understood, 

               then what you have understood is not God.  

                                                           - St Augustine

Thursday evening

    Peter Gomes 

        on Romans 5

Hope 

is that 

which 

gets 

us 

through 

and 

beyond 

when 

the 

worst 

that 

can 

happen, 

happens. 

Thursday morning

                                 Psalm 105:3

Glory 

in God’s holy Name; let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice.

Wednesday evening

                                     General Thanksgiving    

                                        at the Daily Office                                                             

We

thank

you… 

for the 

means of grace 

& the 

hope of glory… 

Wednesday

  General Thanksgiving 

          at the Daily Office

We 

thank
you for 
our creation, 

preservation 

and all the 

blessings of 

this life…. 

Second Vespers of the Nativity of St john the Baptist

  Luke 1: 63 (57-80)

“A tongue is loosened because 

a voice 

is born.” 

- St Augustine

The Nativity of John the baptist

                                                                 Psalm 98:1

Sing 

to the Lord 

a new song, for he has done marvelous things. 

We most often celebrate the day of a saint’ s death, but for John the Baptist , the bridge be-tween the Old and the New, the forerunner 

of his cousin Jesus, we celebrate his birth 

as well as the day he died, beheaded for speak

-ing truth to power. Being childless myself and found miraculously to be “the joyful mother of chil-dren,."  I celebrate this new thing, this miracle birth that changed so much in the lives of Eliz-abeth and Zechariah, and in ours as well.  My Mom used to say "Watch out what you pray for, 

you might get it." 

Friday the 13th

             Galatians 6:2 

Bear

one 

another’s 

burdens 

and in 

this way 

you will 

fulfill  

the law 

of Christ. 

Evening Prayer

                                                                   Psalm 74 :2a

Re-mem-ber your con-gre-ga-tion, Lord, that you purchased long ago 

The sixth anniversary of my Mom's death

  Betty Tuft Johnson  (1920-2008)

You are 

my hope, 

O Lord

God, 

my 

confidence 

since I was 

young.   

Psalm 71:5

"I'd say Evening Prayer"

                                                                             Psalm 19: 14 

Let the words 

of my mouth & 

the meditation

of my heart 

be acceptable 

in your sight,

O Lord, 

my strength &

my redeemer. 

The Feast of St Barnabas, Apostle

                                                Psalm 67:1

     May 
     God 

     be 

     merciful 

     to us & 

     bless us, 

     show the 

     light of his 

     countenance & come to us. 

We meet Barnabas, 

in the Acts of the Apostles.

Called an Apostle, though 

not one of the original 12, 

Barnabas is a nickname 

meaning “son of 

encouragement.” 

There is a story that goes like this: A monk was asked "What would you do if you were told this afternoon that the world was going to end tonight?" " His response was ""I'd say Evening Prayer."

                        Psalm 68:19

Blessed be 

the Lord 

day by day, 

the God of 

our salvation 

who bears

our burdens. 

 

St Ephrem of Edessa, Deacon 306-373

                                                                       Psalm 61:2-3 

I call upon you…

with heaviness 

in my heart, 

set me upon 

the rock 

that is 

higher than I. 

For you have been my refuge, a strong tower against the enemy.

 Ephrem, born to a Christian family in Syria, is “the most celebrated father of the Syrian church.” A poet and theologian, he was such a prolific hymn- writer that he was called
“the harp of the Holy Spirit.”  

Pray 
for all the ancient churches of the East, especially the Syrian Orthodox Church, for all Christians living there and in all Muslim countries. 

Pray
for peace 
& safely
 for all the people of Syria, 
for families, for mothers & children, especially those
who have had to leave their homes. 

Rest in Peace, Tony Baker, husband to Mary Backer, father to Olivia Mahedy and father-inl-aw to Mike Mahedy, Grampa to Devan and Nick.

For 

all the saints who from their labors rest, to Thee by faith before the world con-fessedThy name, O Jesus, be forever blessed, alleluia. alleluia. The golden even-
ing brightens in the west, soon, soon to faithful warriors cometh rest, sweet is the calm of paradise the blest, alleluia alleluia.    

St Columba, 521-597 Abbot of Iona. (Columcille, in Gaelic = Dove of the church) Happy Feast Day Sr Columba SHN!

                                                           Psalm 56: 3, 4a

Whenever I am afraid, I put my trust 

in you. In God, whose word I praise,

 in God I trust and will not be afraid

 “Alone, with none

          but Thee, O God,

 I journey on my way; 

What need I fear when 

           Thou art near,

O King of night and day?” 

I love this psalm. I will not be afraid, but WHEN I AM… The picture of the Vikings is why I don’t include of the second part of verse 4 “For what can flesh do to me?” coward that I am….  

Second Vespers of Pentecost

                                           Memorial of Baptism 

                                        at Pentecost Evening Prayer 

   On this day 

   the Lord

   has acted. 

   We will 

   rejoice 

   & be glad 

            n it. 

Pentecost, between Good Sam and St David's....

                                  

                               Come,

                              Holy Spirit, 

                              fill the hearts 

                             of your faithful
                             and so you 
                             renew the face

                             of the earth. 

The Day of Pentecost, the Birthday of the Church

                                             Psalm 118:5

I called to the Lord in my distress;

the Lord answered by setting me free.

The Eve of Pentecost

                    Antiphon on Canticle 9 

                       at Evening Prayer on the 

                                 Eve of Pentecost

My Spirit 

will be 

in your midst, 

& nothing 

will make 

you afraid, 

says the 

Lord of Hosts, 

hallelujah. 

The Day Before Pentecost

                                                                            Ezekiel 36:26 +

A new 

heart

and

a new 

spirit 

I will put within you; I will remove from your body  the hart of stone & give you a heart 
of flesh - a heart like mine, that 
loves & longs, that grieves 
and yearns ....

Friday

                                                               Matthew 9:12-13

Those who 

are 

well have 

no need 

of a physician… I have come 

to call not the righteous but sinners. 

St Boniface, Bishop and Martyr, 754

                                             Ephesians 4: 30

And

do 

not 

grieve 

the 

Holy 

Spirit 

of 

God with whom you have were marked… 

The Martyrs of Uganda

         Matthew 8:23-27

       Why were you afraid, 

                            you of little faith? 

I’d have been mad- my default reaction. “WHY WERE WE AFRAID!!??  Why do you think - the damn boat was being swamped!”   

But then the answer is in the question, isn’t it? We were afraid precisely because we had not really believed that we would be ok even if  - even WHEN - the waters were not calm…. The waves were pretty darn big after all, and it LOOKED like…  (Which fits in with the first reading abut the calling of David in  I Samuel 16:1-13a, which starts out pretty turbulently as well.)  We had no faith and so we panicked. We forgot -or never really knew? - that if  Jesus was present, even if asleep, we could have gone to him and said “Jesus, we have this problem” rather than screaming him awake like idiots  “WE ARE PERISHING!!”  

Jesus work up, stood up, told both the sea and the wind to pipe dow and they did.  “And there was a dead calm.”  Talk about feeling stupid. Do you think they remembered the lesson when the same thing happened under a different guise? Apparently not. We’re all a little slow. 
But beloved nonetheless. 

The Martyrs of Lyons 177

                              Antiphon on the Benedictus 

The comp-
anions of
Blandina,

in their torment, 

looked upon her suspended on a stake, 

and in the form of their sister they beheld 

him who was crucified for them, alleluia. 

Monday morning, Blandina and Her Companions, the Martyrs of Lyons, 177

                                      Psalm 89:1a

Your 

love, 

O 

Lord, 

for-

ever will I sing