Visitation

                        Antiphon 
                        on  Psalm 146

 

Happy 

are 

they 

whose 

hope  

is in 

the 

Lord their God, hallelujah. 

The Feaast of the Visitation which I love, love, love because it is the preeminent feast of human spiritual relationship/s which we cannot do without.

                       Absolution at 

                        The Daily Office

   strength-

   en us  

   in all 

   good-

   ness 

   and 

   by the 

   power 

     of the 

       Holy Spirt 

         keep is in eternal life. 

First Vespers of the Feast of the Visitation - And my 3300th post! :-)

                       Antiphon on 

                   Canticle 9 at the

        First Vespers of the Feast 

 Ring out with joy

    for the Great One is 

       in the midst of you. 

Today on the Episcopal liturgical calendar we remember Jeanne d'Arc, known to us as Joan of Arc, not too shabby for the remembrance of Memorial Day that uniquely American which grew out of our own Civil War, repercussions of which resound tour own day.

                                                          Ecclesiasticus 2:17

     

       Let us 

      fall  into 

      the hands 

      of the 

      Lord, 

      but not  

      into the 

      hands 

      of  mortals, 

      for  equal to his majesty is his mercy. 

... we pray that we, like Jeanne d’Arc, we may bear wit-

ness to the truth 

that is in us to friends and 

enemies alike, and encouraged  

by the companionship of your 

saints, give ourselves bravely 

to the struggle for justice 

in our time - Collect

The first of 27 Green Sundays

                                                    Psalm 103:2

                 Bless the 

                 Lord, O 

                 my soul, 

                 and forget

                 not all 

                 his benefits. 

A gray Sunday

 Luke 1 1:3

Give 

us 

each 

day 

our 

daily 

bread  

Saturday Evening Prayer

                                     Psalm 43:4 

Send 

out 

your 

light

and  

your 

truth that they may 

lead me, and bring me to 

your holy hill and to your dwelling.   

Saturday

                Psalm 30:6

     Weeping 

     may 

     spend

     the 

     night 

     but

    joy comes in the morning.                    

Friday Evening Prayer as the coastal low clouds and fog sneak back in....

                          1 Timothy 5:26

good 

works 

are 

conspic-

uous; and even when they are not, 

they cannot remain hidden. 

Today in our Anglican heritage we remember Ethelbert, the Saxon King of Kent who became the first English monarch to convert to Christianity, died 612 and his wife, Bertha, a French Christian princess who became his Queen and died in 616.

                                                Matthew  13:33 

  The kingdom of heaven is 
  like yeast that a woman took 
  & mixed in with three measures 
  of flour until all of it was leavened. 

 and we pray that, like them, we may show the goodness

 of your Word not only by

our words, but in our lives

                                   Collect

                    Pray today for all husbands,wives and partners

Thursday Evening Prayer

                    I Timothy 4:14

Do 

not 

neglect 

the gift that is in you

Saint Augustine, First Archbishop of Canterbury, 605

                                       Psalm 37:3

   

   Put 

   your 

   trust 

   in 

   the 

   Lord 

   and 

   do good; 

   dwell in the land and feed on its riches. 

 ”God's works are not regulated by our plans and wishes.”

Wednesday Evening

                                                               The Phos hileron  

Now as we come to the setting of the sun and our eyes behold the vesper light, we sing your praises, O God, Fa-

ather, Son & Holy Spirit

The Venerable Bede, Priest and monk of Jarrow., 735, whose “most famous work is the ecclesiastical history of England, written in Latin remains a primary source for the period of 597– 731 31, when Anglo-Saxon culture and Christianity triumphed.”

    An Antiphon in Ordinary Time on the Venite

    The earth is the Lord’s for he made it,

                                  Come, let us adore him.

Pray  for all those who through the darkness 

keep alive the light of learning; for those who persevere in prayer;  universities, colleges & schools, for students & teachers of history, for biblical scholars &  translators. 

Grant that
as he labored
in the spirit to
bring the riches
of your truth
to his generation,
so we, in our various
vocations. may strive
to make you know in
all the world   - Collect

Tuesday Evening Prayer

                                                     Psalm 36:9

with you is the well of life 

       and in your light we see light.

Today the American Episcopal Church remembers Jackson Kemper, 1789 –1 870 first missionary bishop in the United States

                        Canticle 13

Glory

to 

you, 

Lord 

God 

of 

our fathers; 

you are worthy 

of praise, glory to you. 

Bishop Kemper 

founded both Nashotah House 

(1842) & Racine 

College (1852) 

both in Wis-

consin & was

finally known 

unofficially 

as “The Bishop 

of the Whole Northwest.”

Monday, toward evening

 Collect for Peace 

  at evening prayer  

Give 

to 

us…  

that 

peace 

which 

the 

world 

cannot 

give 

Today we remember Niclaus Copernicus and Johannes Kepler, astronomers, 1543.

                     Antiphon on Psalm 25 

Lead 

me 

in 

your 

truth, 

O Lord, 

and 

teach 

me. 

Pray today for all 

astronomers &

watchers of the 

skies: for math-

ematicians & all 

lovers of numbers, 

for all scientists 

who explore the 

beauty of number 

& order; for cour-

age pursue truth, 

for humility & awe 

in the face of mystery, & for a new vision

of the beauty of creation. 

                         The Butterly Nebulae 

 I love this explanation in The Lutheran New Book as to the inclusion of Copernicus: was "not… notably devout, but his ideas ultimately required Christian-ity to expand its understanding of size of the universe & to come to terms with the position of the Earth not at the center, but as part of the solar system that is on the fringe of the universe. Copernicus thus taught Christianity a new kind of humility before the cosmos." 

Second Vespers of Trinity Sunday

                                 Trinity Antiphon 

                                         on Psalm 113 

From the 

rising of 

the sun 

to its 

going 

down, 

let God, 

the three in one 

be praised, hallelujah.