Tiepolo Sky: February 2015

Saturday, February 28, 2015

Saturday evening, still hoping for and expecting rain.

John 4:10

If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, “Give me a drink,” you would have asked him, and

he would have given you

living water.

Saturday with the hope of rain

Canticle 12

Glorify the Lord, O nights & days, O shining light & enfold-

ing dark.

Storm clouds & thunderbolts, glorify the Lord, praise him & highly exalt him forever.

Friday, February 27, 2015

Friday Evening

Psalm 51:7

you look for

wisdom deep

within me, &

will make me

to understand

wisdom secretly.

George Herbert, Priest 1593-1633

Canticle 10

Seek

the

Lord

where

he wills

to be

found;

call upon

him when he draws near.

"Give us grace

joyfully to perform

the tasks you give us

to do, knowing that

nothing is menial or

common when done

for your sake…"

(Collect)

Pray for poets and those

who make language siing,

and for the grace of God

in everyday life.

(Note: Sometimes my verse comes to me at the very beginning of my prayers, but sometimes it is a sum-

mation of all that comes before, as today. If you ever want to see what the readings are I am responding to, Google dailyoffice.org)

Thursday, February 26, 2015

Today we celebrate the life and work of Emily Melbourne Morgan, Prophetic Witness, 1884 - 1939

Collect for the

Presence of Christ

…be our companion on the way

and awaken hope …

Emily Melbourne Morgan founder of The Society of the Companions of the Holy Cross

which is mposed of approximately seven hundred women, members of the Anglican Communion, called to live individual lives under a rule of intercessory prayer, thanksgiving, and simplicity of life. Companions pray and act with intentional concern for three themes: the unity of all God’s people,God’s mission in the world, and social justice.

Thursday, early and off to church

Collect for Guidance

… in you

we live & move & have our being. So guide & govern us by your Holy Spirit that, in all the cares & occupations

of our life, we may not forget

you, but may remember

that we are ever walk-

ing in your sight …

Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Wednesday Evening

Antiphon on Psalm 49

Lay up

for yourselves treasures

in heaven, says the Lord.

My grandson Celeb's 19th birthday and Margie Rice's 80 years before that....

Collect for Grace

Lord God…

you have brought us to the beginning of this new day. Preserve us with

your mighty power, that we may not

fall into sin, nor be overcome by adversity; and,

in all we do, direct us to the fulfilling of your purpose

Preserve us that we may not be
overcome by adversity

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Evening Prayer

Collect against Perils

Be our light in the darkness, O Lord…

Feast of St Matthias, Apostle

And they all
prayed
together,
saying

“You, Lord,

know our hearts,

make your choice

known to us "

The choice

was to be

made by him

From a homliy by John Chrysostom,

Bishop of Constantinople, 407

Tradition holds that St Matthias was

stoned and then beheaded, hence the ax.

St Matthias, Apostle

I John 2:20,24

you have been anoint-ed by the Holy One …Let what you have heard

from the beginning abide in you.

fter Jesus’ Ascension, the Apostles chose someone to replace Judas Iscariot. Two names were proposed: Matthias and Joseph Barsabbas and “the lot

fell on Matthias,”

(Acts of the Apostles 1:15-26)

Monday, February 23, 2015

Monday, toward evening

Phos hileron

Now as we come to the setting of the sun, & our eyes behold the vesper light, we sing your praises,

O God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit….

Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna and Martyr, 156

Absolution

at the Daily Office

For-give us,

stren-gthen us &

by the power of the Holy spirit keep us in eternal life.

Polycarp was at the first Bishop of ancient Syrna (modern day Izmir) Turkey. Born around the year 70, a disciple of St John the Apos-tle, he was a principle connecting link between the apostolic age and Christian life of the second century. When the proconsul demanded that he denounce Christ or die, he replied “86 years have I served him and he never did me any wrong. How can I blaspheme my King who saved me?” He was burned at the stake. Suddenly, such pictures of martyrdom are not alien to our eyes.

Pray

for a life of devotion, the courage to follow Christ even to death, and for faith-fulness to the apostolic tradition.

(all from The Lutheran New Book…)

Sunday, February 22, 2015

Sunday eevening

Psalm 103:2,4

Bless the Lord,

O my soul, and forget not all his benefits. He redeems your life

from the grave and crowns you with

mercy & loving-kindness.

The First Sunday in Lent

Psalm 63:1

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, February 21, 2015

Saturday night

John 1:46

Come

and

See.

John Henry Newman, Preist and Theologian, 1801-189

While I felt secure, I said,“You,

Lord, are as strong as

the mountains." Psalm 30:7-8

Then you hid your face,

and I was filled with fear.

John Henry Newman, along with John Keble and Edward Pusey, whom we also celebrate, were the founders of The Oxford Movement which began in 1833. Often seen as “high church,” it did advocate more liturgical practice "over the growing Protestant tendencies at work in the church of its day," but its goal was to restore the church to the heritage of the early Church Fathers. In time it moved Newman right on over to the Roman Catholic Church….

Friday, February 20, 2015

Friday

John 1:39

Jesus said

to them,

"Come and see."

Frederick Douglas, Prophetic Witness, 1818-1895

From The Venite

(Psalm 95:8)

Harden not your hearts

Frederick Douglas

was born in 1818.

A former slave, he became a social reformer, orator,

writer, statesman

and leader of the abolitionist move-

ment. He died on

this date in 1895.

“Strengthen us also to be outspoken on behalf of this who are in captivity and tribulation, continuing the work of Jesus Christ our Liberator….” (Collect aka Prayer)