Saturday night

                                               Psalm 139:11

Dark-ness is not dark 

to you; the dark 

is as bright as the day; to you darkness and light are both alike.

Saturday

                                                  Canticle 12

Glorify the Lord,

O chill 

& cold, drops of dew  & flakes of snow. 

  Frost & cold, ice & sleet, 

    glorify the Lord, praise him 

        & highly exalt him forever. 

Friday night

  Psalm 51:11 

       Create in me a clean heart, O Gd 

               and renew a right spirit within me. 

Friday and, amazingly, my nephew Sean's FIFTIETH birthday!! Welcome to the Age of Wisdom a la Bill Mahedy!

                                                                                           Isaiah 50:4

Morning by morn-
ing he wakens, he wak-ens my ear to listen as one who is taught

Thursday Evening Prayer

                                                         Mark 6: 31

Come away 

to a deserted 

place all by 

yourselves

and rest 

awhile. 

Andrei Rublev ca 1365-1430 Monk and Russia’s greatest iconographer.

  Canticle 8 

The 

Lord 

is my 

strength 

and my 

refuge, 

and he has 

become my 

Savior. 

Wednesday night

                          Prayer for Mission at  

                        Evening Prayer (BCP Pg125)

Send forth your Spirit 

of 

love, 

that 

in 

com-panion-ship with one another your abounding grace may increase among us.

Thomas Aquinas, ca 1225-1274, Priest and Theologian

   Psalm 119:50

 The earth, 

O Lord, 

is full of 

your love; 

instruct 

me in your 

statutes. 

Thomas Aquinas 

was a theologian & the author of hymns we still sing:  (#314) "Humbly I adore thee, verity unseen" &  the lovely "Pange, lingua" (#329)  Google it and bask in the sound!     

               

              

                faith, our outward sense befriending,  

               makes our inward vision clear.  v.5

 Pray for the gift of wisdom;

               for the grace to perceive the mystery of God;s presence;

           for  teachers of theology;

           for the grounding of theology always in prayer & in the life and worship of the community of the church. 

Monday end of day

                                                                 Mark 6:3

Is 

this 

not 

Jesus the carpenter,

 the son of Mary? 

…And they took offense

Today we celebrate the lives and ministry of Lydia, Dorcas, and Phoebe, biblical witnesses to the faith. (And my niece Sheri's birthday. She'd be right at home with those gals!) )

                           The Letter to the saints &

                                    the faithful brothers &

                                       sisters in Colossae 3:6-7

As 

you 

have 

received 

Christ 

Jesus

the Lord, 

…continue to live 

your lives in him, rooted &

built up 

in him… abounding 

in thanksgiving.

[As] you inspired 

Lydia, Dorcas 

& Phoebe to support and sustain your church by their deeds of generous love; open our hearts to hear 

you, conform our will to love you & strengthen our hands to serve you."    

                            
                        Pray for all who serve Christ with the gifts that each has been given. 

After the Conversion....

   Psalm 119:105

Your 

word 

is a

lantern 

to my 

feet, 

and 

a light

upon 

my 

path. 

The Conversion of Saul of Tarsus -> St Paul (transferred from yesterday) and today we remember Timothy Tutus and Silas, companions of Paul.

                                  Psalm 19:1 

The heav-ens de-clare the glory of God, and the firmament 

shows his handiwork. 

Today, which marks the end of 

The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, 

we pray for the nondenominational 

churches and for theologians and 

councils seeking to promote Christian 

unity while preserving Christian truth. 

Pray also for all preachers and  

for the opening of our eyes 

to see beyond this world.

The end of another Sunday

                                                                     Psalm 103:12

    

    As far as 

    the east 

    is from 

    the west, 

    so far has 

    he removed 

    our sins 

    from us, 

    for he himself  

   knows whereof we are made

    

The Third Sunday after the Epiphany

  Hebrews 10: 23, 25

Let us hold 

fast to the

confession 

of our hope 

without 

wavering, 

for he 
who has
promised 

is faithful.

Today in the 

Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, we pray 

for the Pentecostal and Charismatic Churches. 

Saturday evening

                                            Psalm 42:6,7

Why are you so full of heav-iness, 

O my soul? and why so dis-quieted within me? Put you trust in God, for I will yet give thanks to him who is the help
of my countenance and my God. 

Today we remember the Ordination of Florence Li Tim-Oi (1907- 1992) and St Francis de Sales (1567-1622)

  Psalm 32:10

Do not be like

horse or mule,

which have no

understanding, 

but must be fitted 

with bit & bridle 

or they will not

stay near you.

Today in the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity we pray for the Baptist, Amish, Mennonite, Hutterite and Christian (the Disciples of Christ) Churches. 

Florence Li Tim-Oi, 

ordained a priest in 1944

in the the Diocese of Hong

Kong and South China,

was the first woman 

ordained to the priesthood 

in the Anglican Communion.

 St Francis de Sales, 

Bishop of  Geneva

and author of 

The Devout Life.

Friendships begun

 in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.  ― Francis de Sales

Evening

                                                        Mark 4:37-38

A great wind-storm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that the boat was already being swamped. But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion, and they woke him and said”… do you not care that we are perishing?” 

        I had two thoughts as I read the Mark passage tonight: one a realization about Jesus and one a realization about me. (Isn’t it a good thing that we get to read this over and over again? It’s new every time! Well, maybe not every time, but often.)  

The first is how utterly exhausted Jesus would have had to be to Still be asleep in the stern as the waves buffeted the little boat. This was no longer the gentle, restful lapping of waves agains the side; these were waves big enough that the boat was already taking on water. We all know in our bones that beyond-tiredness kind of exhaustion from taking care of ill spouses or being up with little children night after night. We can feel that  Jesus is utterly used up. 

     The second is how quickly the focus switches  from you, or even us, to me - add little panic, and it’s all about me! They go to waken Jesus but they don't  say “We’re in trouble here!” No, the tone is completely accusatory: “Do you not care that we are perishing?” What, and he is not? 

    It’s astounding stuff. 

In the American Episcopal Church we remember today Phillips Brooks, (1835-1893 Bishop of Massachusetts, "one of the great preachers of the 19th century. "

                   Psalm 31:24

Be 

strong 

& let 

your 

heart 

take 

courage, 

all you 

who wait 

for the Lord. 

In the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, 

pray for  Congregational, Presbyterian 

and Reformed Churches. 

              

“Christianity helps
 us face the music even when we don't like the tune.”   
                                                      Phillips Brooks 

Thursday evening

                                                         Mark 4: 24

Pay 

attention 

to what 

you hear: 

the measure you give 

will be the measure you get. 

Vincent of Saragossa, Spain, Deacon and Martyr, 304

                                  Psalm 37:3

Put your trust 

in the Lord and do good; 

live in the land 

and feed on its riches. 

       

       Pray for all deacons and especially for our friend Phil Loveless who will be ordained to the Diaconate on February 14th and for Margaret England, our deacon. Pray for a will to embrace our calling to serve the world. 
       Today in the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, pray  for the Lutheran, Moravian and Reformed Churches.  In this 

Wednesday Evening Prayer

   Mark 4: 3-9

Listen! 

A 

sower 

went

 out 

to

sow …

St Agnes, child martyr at Rome, 304

                                                Ephesians 5:1

live 

in love, as Christ loved us, and gave him-self up for us, a fragrant 

offering and sacrifice to God. 

In The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, pray for Anglican, Old Catholic and affiliated churches. (Lutheran New Book…) 

Evening

                                                              Psalm 36:9

      with 

      you 

      is 

      the 

      well 

      of 

      life, 

      and

      in your light we see light.

Today my husband Gordon's mother was born, was married and died. An organized woman....

                                                                       Psalm 28:1 

O Lord, I call 

to you; 

My Rock, do not be deaf to my cry; lest, if you do not hear, I become 

like those who go down to the Pit. 

Pray today in the Week of Prayer for Cristian unity, 
for the Roman Catholic and the Uniate Churches.