St James

  Mark 1:19-20

Jesus saw James, son of Zebedee & his brother John who were n the boat mending the nets. Immediately he called them & they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired man & followed him.  

Bishop Wolterstorff, the first Bishop of San Diego, was elected from St James-by-the-Sea, which is why our diocesan shield has a tiny shell, symbol of St James, at the bottom of it. 

Thursday toward evening

                            Psalm 67:7

 May God give 
us 
his bles-sing and may all the ends of 
the earth stand in awe of him.

Thomas Kemis, Priest, 1471

                                                           Psalm 50:24

Who-ever offers me the sacrifice of salvation honors me; but to those who keep in my way I will show 
the salvation of God. 

     Thomas a Kempis 

        (1380-1471)

 “the author (or at least the complier) of the devotional guide The Imitation of Christ.) 

Pray for the desire to conform our whole life

 to Christ. 

Wednesday Evening Prayer

                                                                             Collect for Protection

O God… We thank you 

for the blessings of the day that is past…

Wednesday

                                       Psalm 119:68

  
  
  
  You 

  are 

  good

  and 

  you 

  bring 

  forth

  good;

  instruct 

  me in your statutes. 

God, you are good and you bring forth good when You act, there are no “unintended consequences” because You see the Big Picture. Not so with us and we have not yet developed the humility to see that when we act HERE something moves over HERE, from thalidomide babies to global warming...  

Mary Magdalene

After his death, 

they all ran away, 

Mary stood weeping 

and broken; 

the angel appeared & 

said “Its all true - 

all the words he 

had spoken”. He said 

Come and see, 

come and see, 

come and see 

the messiah. 

It is he, come to be, 

come let us 

worship the king. 

Mary Magadalene, first witness of the resurrection and apostle to the Apostles

                                             Psalm 116:6

              Turn 

              again 

              to your

              rest, O 

              my soul, 

              for the 

              Lord has 

              treated

              you well.  

"grant, we pray, 

that through her 

intercession and example, we may proclaim the 

living Christ…” 

Roman Collect of  the Day 

Eve of the Feast of Mary Magdalene

Romans 13:8

            

            Owe 

            no 

            one 

            anything 

            except to love one another. 

John Albert Luthuli Prophetic witness in South Africa , 1898- 967

  Matthew 26:40

                 Peter, James and John 

                                           at Gethsemane 

Could you not watch with me one hour?   

    John Albert Luthuli

           1891-1967 

was the first African to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of the non-violent struggle against  apartheid in South Africa. 

He died nearly a quarter of 

a century before apartheid 

ended. 

Another Sunday

                            Psalm 69:1

O God, you are my God, eagerly I seek you
my soul thirsts for you, my flesh faints for you 

as in a barren and dry land where there is no water. 

Saturday evening

                                               Psalm 43:3

Send 

out 

your 

light 

and 

your 

truth that they may lead me 

Macrina (340-379) monastic, theologian and teacher, sister of Gregory of Nyssa and Basil the Great. AND my cousin Joyce's 80th birthday!

                             The Venite

In God’s hands 

are the 

caverns 

of the 

earth... 

the sea 

is his 

for the made it and his hands have molded the dry land. 

Friday evebing

Romans 12:9

              Let love be genuine

Friday , Nelson Mandela's birthday in 1918

                                                           Psalm 31:5

           Into your 

             hands I 

          commend 

            my spirit, 

       for you have 

     redeemed me,

           O Lord, 

            O God 

        of truth.

William White (1747-1836) First Bishop of Pennsylvania, chief architect of the Constitution of the American Episcopal Church, and, in 1789, first Presiding Bishop. Elected again in 1795, he served until his death in 1836.

                                            Psalm 37:3

Put your trust in the Lord and do good; Dwell in the land and feed on its riches. 

“O God, in a time of  turmoil and con-fusion and you raised up your servant William White, and endowed him with wisdom, patience and a reconciling temp-erament that he might lead your church into ways of stability and peace: Hear our prayer and give us [in our time] wise and faithful leaders that your people may be blessed and your will be done. ..” 

Currently serving, elected in 2006, is Katharine Jefforts-Schoir, the first female PB

Wednesday

             Romans 11:36

from

him

and

thr-

ough 

him 

and  

to 

him 

are 

all 

things.

Midweek

                                                                   Psalm 38:15

         In 

       you, 

  O Lord,

   have I

     fixed 

my hope

Tuesday evening

    Antiphon: Psalm 36

In 

your 

light, 

O 

God, 

we 

see 

light.

Olga, Princess of Kiev, Confessor, 969 and Vladimir, First Christian Ruler of Russia, 1015. Olga is his grandmother.

                                    Psalm 28:10

The 
Lord 
is 
the 
stren-
gth 

of

his people, a safe refuge for his anointed. 

Pray for the people and governments of Russia & Ukraine. Pray for families, 
pray especially today for grandmothers. 

Monday Evening Prayer with the reading for Sunday since I read Monday's on Sunday!

                          Paul’s journey to Jerusalem

                   (The Acts of the Apostles 21:3b-6) 

 …we sailed to Syria & landed at Tyre because the ship was to unload cargo there. We looked up the disciples and stayed there 7 days…. When the days were ended, we left and proceeded on our journey, & all of them, with wives and children, escorted us down to the beach & said farewell 

to one another. Then we went aboard & they returned home. 

     Pray for peace in Syria and throughout the the region. 

Bastille Day

Antiphon: Psalm 25

Lead me

 in your 

truth, 

O Lord, & 

teach me. 

Today's Gospel

                      The Seed and the Sower: 

                                      Matthew 13

Small, 

hard, 

un-

attract-

ive 

to the senses, yet within [the seed] lies the promise of green and growing things, of harvest & bread.  But for all its promise it remains only a seed, contained in it’s outer shell unless it surrenders itself to an environ-

ment that can realize its true potential. 

                            Sr Verna Holyhead (d. 2011)’

                       in today;s Give Us This Day

   Psalm 148:3 

Praise 

him, 

sun & 

moon, 

praise 

him, 

all you 

shining 

stars. 

Saturday Evening

                                                  Psalm 116:6

Turn 

again 

to 

your 

rest, 

O my 

soul,  

for the Lord has treated you well. 

Nathan Soderblom (1866-1931) Swedish Lutheran Archbishop of Uppsala. Theologian, Ecumenist and winner of the Noble Peace Prize in 1930. (Ironically, he had conducted the memorial service for Alfred Noble in 1897)

                                      Nathan Soderblom

God’s 

revelation 

is not 

finished -

it continues. 

God is ever revealing himself. 

Prayers are asked today in The New Book

*for the unity 

     of the church.

*for understanding & 

     growth of evangel-

          ical catholicity.

*for peace in our world & for a new respect for      the insights of religions that are not our own. 

From The Standing Committee on Liturgy and Music of the Episcopal Church: Söderblom took a great interest in the early liturgical renewal movement among Roman Catholics, Anglicans, and Lutherans. This coincided with his deep commitment to the unity of the churches of Christ and his passion for ecumenical advancement. In 1925 he invited to Stockholm Episcopalian/Anglican, Reformed, Lutheran, and Orthodox leaders and together they formed the Universal Christian Council on Life and Work. Because of his effort and his tireless advocacy of Christian unity, Söderblom is numbered among the ecumenists whose efforts led eventually to the formation of the World Council of Churches in 1948. … It was Söderblom’s advocacy for church unity as a means toward world peace that earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1930.

St Benedict of Nursia. 547, Founder of Western Monasticism, celebrated now with his sister St Scholastica. As well as my friend Mike's 38th birthday!

  Psalm 16:5-6

O Lord, 

you are 

my portion 

and my cup;

;My boundaries enclose a pleasant land; 

indeed I have 

a goodly heritage.

Prayers are requested today, among other things, for those who live among us as signs of the kingdom of heaven, & for monastic communities throughout the world who follow the Rule of St Benedict, including our own Oder of the Holy Cross.   

Thursday

   Psalm 18:a

I 

love

you, 

O 

Lord, 

my

strength

Midweek

                                                                                 Psalm 119:5

Oh, that 

my ways 

were made 

so direct 

that I might 

keep your 

statutes! 

Tuesday at Evening Prayer

                                                                                    Collect against Perils

 

Be 

our 

light 

in the 

darkness, O Lord… 

A Summer Tuesday

                                Romans 8:26

the Spirit helps us in our weak-ness, for we do not know how to pray as we ought; but the Spirit intercedes for us with 

sighs too deep for words.

Monday afternoon

                          Romans 8:31

 If 

God 

is 

for 

us, 

who 

can 

be 

against 

us? 

A summer Monday

                           The Venite

Oh, 

that 

today 

you 

would 

hearken to God’s voice!  

Sunday Evening Prayer

                                        Psalm 113:3

From 

the 

rising

of 

the 

sun 

to its 

setting, 

let the Name of the Lord be praised. 

A hot summer Sunday

                                                                        Collect of the Day 

                                            + St David’s Mission Statement  

O God, you have taught 

us to keep 

all your command-ments by loving you 

and our neighbor, without exception. Give us the  grace of your Holy Spirit that we may be devoted to you with our whole heart, 

and united to one another 

with pure affection….

Recently on NPR I heard 

that the mother of maybe 

the Palestinian boy who 

was killed quoted as saying 

“Murder is murder, 

whether you are 

Israeli or Palestinian.” 

It’s really interesting &

sad to me that I cannot 

find the quote on the web...