Evening

                                                                                Psalm 119:125 

I am 

your 

servant; 

O, grant me understanding. 

St Jerome, Translator, Teacher, Priest and Monk at Bethlehem, 420. Best from for his translation of the Vulgate Bible.

                                                         I Corinthians 8:3

Anyone 

who

loves 

God 

is known 

by him.

Pray 

for an increase 

in the love of Scripture. For students & scholars 

of the Bible and for those who translate Scripture into the language of the people in our own day.

Evening

Ye holy angels bright,

who stand at God’s right hand, 

or through the realms of light 

fly at your Lord’s command; 

assist our song or else the theme 

too high both seem for moral tongue.

                            -Richard Baxter                              

The Feast of St Michael and All Angels

                                    Collect of the Day

Merci-fully grant that, 

as 

your holy angels always serve and worship you in heaven, so by your appointment, they may 

help and defend us here on hearth 

Richard Rolle (1349) Walter Hilton (1396) and Margery Kemp (1440) English mystics

                                               Psalm 89:1

Your 

love, 

O Lord, forever will I sing, from age to age, 

my mouth shall

 proclaim your faithfulness. 

may we, 
like them, 

                           pass through 

                           the cloud of 

                           unknowing 

                           

     and behold

      your glory

- Based on the Collect of the Day. 

Night of the September Full Moon ...lunar eclipse = blood moon.

                                                Psalm 19:1-3

The heavens declare the glory of  God, and the firm-ament shows 

his handi-work. 

One 

day 

tells its tale to another, and one night imparts 

knowledge to another.Although they 

have  no words or language, their 

sound has gone out to all lands,

and their message to the 

ends of the earth.   

                                                                          

SOMEHOW it's gotten to be the last Sunday in September!

                       The  Nicene Creed 

 We 

believe 

in all 

that is, 

seen and unseen. 

Saturday evening

                                                                         Matthew 6:19,21 

do not store up 

for yourselves

treasures 

on earth, 

where moth 

& rust consume, 

& where thieves 

break in & steal,

  for where your treasure is, 

    there your heart will be also.

Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, 1555- 1626 One of the translators of the King James Bible

                                  Some of Psalm 90:10+12 

The
sum

 of our

 years pass quickly and are gone, 

So teach us to number our days 

that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.

 Perfect is us 

what is lacking 

in your  gifts, 

of faith, to increase it, 

of hope, to establish it,

 of love, to kindle it, 

that we may live

in your grace and glory  

                      - Collect

The only thing I did not struggle with today while doing this post was the verse!. That, at least, was crystal clear .But I struggled with the  picture and with the font and with each succeeding thing, the colors had to change….And then,, just when I thought i was nearly done, I came to the collect .and thought “That can’t be right! “What is lacking in your gifts?!”  That’s gotta be wrong (ci’est moi -  often wrong but seldom in doubt!)  And  I very nearly left it out.  But,, along with Lancelot Andrewe’s book of private devotion,  maybe it Did make sense.So i looked back at the collect and it said ” you gave your servant the gift of the Holy Spirit and made him.. a man of prayer…”   Sr Electa,, says “Virtues are just good habits,  Louise.” As we go along, we  begin to note that we are lacking in a lot of areas, but with the singular  gift of the Holy Spirit, and community and prayer and effort, we can indeed begin to apply our hearts to wisdom. and have that bear fruit in our lives in an increase in faith, hope and love. 

Saint Sergius, Abbot of Holy Trinity Moscow, 1314-1292 (Sept. 25)

   Psalm 116:6

Turn 

again 

to your 

rest, 

O my 

soul, 

for 

the 

Lord 

has treated you well. 

     Pray for 

a deeper attachment to the things that endure. for an in-creased respect for the natural world, for peace & for the church in Russia. 

Thursday Evening Prayer

                                                            Matthew 6: 6

when-

ever 

you 

pray, 

go 

into 

your room and close the door and pray… 

Thursday September 24

                                           I Corinthians 7:15

It 

is 

to 

peace 

that God has called you. 

The Autumnal Equinox

                                                  Collect for Grace
                                                     at Morning Prayer 

     In all we do, direct us

   to the fulfilling of your purpose

In all we do

which obviously also means the choice of car we drive. I absolutely love to see the Pope’’s Fiat in the motorcade of 

                                                        fatass Important People ars!  

Tuesday Evening Prayer

                               Collect for Tuesday 

                                      Evening Prayer

Be 

our 

light 

in the darkness, O Lord  

Tuesday, September 22

                                                       Psalm 78:39 90:12

  

God re-

members 

hat we are but flesh,
a breath that goes forth and does not return.

                  So teach us to number our days, 

     that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.  

Monday Evening Prayer

                                        Psalm 19:14

Let the words of my mouth 

and the meditation of my heart

be always acceptable in your sight,

O Lod, my strength and my redeemer.

Feast of St Matthew, the Apostle

                                Based on 

                           Ephesians 2:19  

we are

no longer 

strangers & sojourners, 

but fellow citizens with the saints & members of the household of God

Sunday evening

  Psalm 34:8 

Taste & 
see that 

the Lord 

is good;

happy
are they
who trust
in him!  

Sunday September 20th

                                          The Collect of the Day 

Great 

us, 

Lord, 

not 

to be 

anxious about 

earthly things… but even now, 

while we are placed among things 

that are passing away, to hold fast to 

                      things that shall endure

Saturday night

 God is Love and love enfolds us, 

all the world in one embrace; 

With unfailing grasp God holds us, 

every child of every race;

 And when human hearts are breaking .

under sorrow’s iron rod, 

then we find that selfsame aching 

deep within the heart of God. 

Hymn #379 v.2

Words: Timothy Rees 

Tune: Abbot’s Leigh 

Saturday evening (9/19)

            Psalm 27:5

One thing I 

have asked 

of the Lord, 

one ting I 

seek; that I 

may dwell 

in the house 

of the Lord 

all the days

of my life. 

Saturday, September 19th

                      Antiphon on 

                      Psalm 75

God does 

not judge 

by what 

the eye 

sees, but 

in truth 

and equity.

I really love this antiphon 

- its one I really need to remember! - 

and am always happy to have an image  to illustrate it. Today the image is, well picture perfect to illustrate it! And it's thanks to my nephew Sean who wrote me that today is ITLAPD (International Talk Like A Pirate Day.) So, ARRRRRRRRGH! and Happy Day! 

Turns out that TODAY is actually the feast of Theodore of Tarsus. Today YESTERDAY was the commemoration of Dag Hammersgold. Born in Sweden in 1905, he was the third Secretary-General of the United Nations, from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash of unknown cause over what was then Zambia on September 18 1961.He had been involved in a peace keeping mission in the Congo. He was awarded  the Noble Prize posthumously that year. (From 1974, the Statutes of the Nobel Foundation stipulate that a Nobel Prize cannot be awarded posthumously. ) “It was only after his death that the world learned that his private faith guided his public role.”(said Give us this Day who gave us both the quote and the commemoration.)  His spiritual journal is called Markings which according to the blurb on Amazon, “concealed a remarkable intense inner life which he recorded over several decades in this journal of poems and spiritual meditations, left to be published after his death. A dramatic account of spiritual struggle," first published in 1964.”

Pray 

for 

the mis-sion and mem-bers of the United Nations the as they begin their 70th session. Pray that the world community can come together and address the FLOOD of refugees flowing from war and terror.  (One place to give is to USA for UNHCR, the UN High Commissioner on Refugees)                                              Ban Ki-moon, 

the 8th & current current who as  Secretary-Gen-eral, in his second term, was himself helped as a small child in war 

torn Korea.