Celebrate today - it comes one every four years! John Cassian, Abbot of Marseilles, 433, born around 365.

                                                             Psalm 80:8b,9

You  have  brought a vine out of Egypt…  

You prepared

 the ground for it, 

it took root & filled the land. 

Call us 

to turn the gaze 

of the eyes of our 

soul always toward 

you, that we may 

abide in your love   

     - Collect

St John Cassian ”struggled with the problems of living 

the Christian life in a time when the world seems to be

 falling apart.“  We too live, as Bishop Mathes said 

yesterday, in a “rock -throwing, insult-hurling, bomb-

throwing world., and “to be a people not of rocks, but 

of the water.”  

Sunday Evening Prayer

                                                                                  

                                                      Psalm 34:8  

          Taste 

          and 

          see 

          that 

          the 

          Lord 

          is good; 

          happy are they who trust in him. 

The Third Sunday in Lent

                                                   Psalm 93:5 

Mightier

than the 

sound of 

many waters; 

mightier than 

the breakers

 of the sea; 

mightier is the 

Lord who dwells on high. 

Today we remember George Herbert, 1593- 1633, priest and poet

   1 Corinthians 2:16

It

 is to 

peace 

that God

 has called you.

               

             

               “Nothing 

                 is  little 

                 in Gods service. “

Friday evening

                                    Psalm 73:24

        You 

        will 

        guide 

        me 

        by 

        your 

        counsel, 

        and afterward 

        receive me with glory. 

Today we commemorate Emily Malbone Morgan (1862- 1937) Prophetic witness

                                                  Psalm 69:34b

You 

who 

seek 

God, 

your 

hearts 

will 

live. 

This image depicts St David’s Eighth Station of the Cross: "Jesus mets the woman of Jerusalem." At each stations our children say in versicle and response form: 

          “Jesus, we wee not there”. 

          “But we are here now, remembering. “

          Emily Morgan “helped to establish the Society of the Companions of the Holy Cross,  so that women who live in the world might devote themselves to intercessory prayer, social justice, Christian unity, and simplicity of life.

Our own Margaret 

has long been a companion of the holy cross, both In the strict sense and also literally. 

John Roberts (1858 -1949) Welsh priest and missionary among the Shoshone and Arapaho peoples in Wyoming, which work he shared iwth his wife, Laura Brown

  Psalm 71

O 

Lord, 

be my 

strong 

rock, 

a castle 

to keep 

me safe. 

Evening Prayer of St Matthias

                                          Acts 20:28

Keep watch 

over yourselves & over the 

flock of which the 

Holy Spirit 

made you 

overseers, 

to shepherd 

the church of God 

which he obtained with 

the blood of his own Son. 

After the selection to fill the Judas Iscariot,'s spot,  

we know as much about St Matthias as we do about St Joseph surnamed Justus, called Barsabas, who was the also ran. 

Which is nothing really. True leadership  

turns out to be different than we 

thought. Or think. 

St Mathias, who was chosen after the Resurrection to become the 12th apostle in place of Judas Iscariot.

                           Antiphon on Psalm 80  

                                  for St Mathias Day

 O Lord, look down from heaven; 

behold and tend this vine. 

A salubrious 

reminder 

that while 

each of us 

is beloved, 

none  of us is 

indispensable.

  

Tuesday

                                               Psalm 62:1a 

For 

God 

alone 

my 

soul 

in 

silence 

waits

Monday evening

                                                             Psalm 65:8b 

you 

make  

the 

dawn 

and 

the 

dusk 

to sing for joy. 

On this date in 1732 George Washington, the first President of the United States of America, was born; in 1862 Jefferson Davis was inaugurated as President of the Confederacy; and n 1932 Adolf Hitler was the Nazi Party candidate for the presidential elections in Germany.

                                                    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…

I routinely delete the end of verse4 because it continues “for what can flesh do to me?” My resounding answer is PLENTY!! as you can see in this little refugee child seeking comfort in the outline of her mother. What flesh does to flesh is terrible and if God hates anything it is this, the breaking of the second  part of the Great Commandment. 

Evening Prayer

  Psalm 8:4  

Happy 

the 

people 

whose 

strength 

is in you; 

whose 

hearts 

are set 

on the 

pilgrim’s 

way.

The Second Sunday in Lent

                                                      
Psalm 24:1

The earth is 

the Lord's 

& all that 

is in it; 

the world 

& all who 

dwell therein. 

Saturday Evening Prayer

                                                    Psalm 138:4

When I 

called, 

you an-

swered 

me; you increased my strength within me. 

Saturday

  Psalm 55:17

I will 

call upon 

God,&the

Lord will 

answer me. 

Friday in the First Week of Lent

                                              Psalm 40:4

          

       

        

        

          Happy 

                are 

                they 

                who 

               trust in the Lord 

The days really are getting longer!

                            Antiphon on Psalm 19

The heavens declare the glory of  God and the firmament shows forth his handiwork. 

One day tells its tale to another, 

and one night imparts knowledge 

to another Although they have 

no words or language, their 

voices have gone out to 

the ends of the earth. 

Today we remember Martin Luther, Augustinian monk and theologian, 1483-1546

                                   Psalm 50:14 

Offer 

to 

God 

a sac-

rifice  

of 

thanks-

giving

and make good 

your vows to the Most High.  

May we
too work 

“to reform 

and renew 

your Church 

in light of 

your Word…”-Collect 

"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces,
I would still plant my apple tree."

Evening Prayer

                       I Corinthians 2:4,5

My speech and 

my proc-lamation [to you] were with plausible words of wisdom but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith might rest not on human 

wisdom but on the power of God.