Psalm 65:8b
You
make
the
dawn
and
the
dusk
to sing for joy.
Tieoplo Sky
Tiepolo Clouds
Monday, July 31, 2017
Monday, July 31, 2017*
II Samuel2: 1-3a
David
inquired
of the Lord
"Shall I go
up into any
of the cities
of Judah?”
The Lord
said to him,
"Go up, David.” David said, “To which shall I go up?” He said "To Hebron.” So David went & settled there.
*Ignatius
of Loyola,
(1491- 1556)
Spanish priest & monastic,Founder
of the Jesuits & author of The Spiritual Exercises.
"Act as if everything depended on you; trust as if everything depended on God.”
Sunday, July 30, 2017
Sunday evening 7/30/17
-Collect
grant
that
we
may
so
to
pass
through
things
temporal
that we lose
not the things eternal…
Suddenly it's lthe last Sunday in July, the lpenultimatet day OF July, 2017
____________Psalm 24:1 _
The
earth
is the
Lord’s
Lord’s
and
all
that
is in it;
is in it;
the world and all who dwell there in.
________*________
Here’s today’s back story.
It comes not from me but from a companion
- on-the-way, Jeff.
Three days ago I was walking, something moved on the road near where I walked. Thought it was a leaf but it was a little bird, a hummingbird. I was going to put it in the bushes but thought better and carried it home. I fed it some nectar, etc and placed it comfortably in a box for night. She (could be a He) would turn over and not be able to right herself. I kept her living for two to three days. This morning Saturday after having coffee at Peet’s I came back and she was on her back, couldn't right herself and appeared to have died. I bounced her around up and down , massaged her breast for about ten minutes. Life came back, she started to breathe and there she was a living creature. My daughter and son advised me to take her to Project Wildlife. I did reluctantly. She is there now. Hopefully they will keep her from falling over on to her back. She will die again. I wanted to keep her and work with her to get her back into wild living. I miss her awfully.
I am sure that God put her in my path so that I could rescue her. He knows my love of birds. I am also sure that God enabled me to bring her back from death to life. I pray that he will enable her to be kept successfully so that she may be released to wild living.
Sadly but lovingly, Jeff.
Which wraps nicely back around
to today's collect:
God
without whom
nothing is***
Saturday, July 29, 2017
Saturday, July 29, 2017*
Canticle 11
a song of creation
God
saw
every-
thing
he
had
made
and behold,
it was very good.
Friday, July 28, 2017
Friday, 28 July, 2017*
The Antiphon on Psalm 4o
My
food
is
to
do
the
will
of
my
Father.
*Today we remember with thanksgiving
Johannes Sebastian Bach, 1750, George Frederick Handel, 1759, & Henry Purcell, 1695
Be with all those who write or make music… that we on earth may glimpse your beauty and know the inexhaustible riches of your
new creation inJesus Christ
Thursday, July 27, 2017
Thursday, July 27, 2017*
Collect for Grace at
Morning Prayer
Preserve us
with your mighty power
Today the Episcopal Church remembers
Williams Reed
Huntington,
1839– 1909
whose "bold proposal to revise the Prayer Book that led to the revision of 1892”, the
second revision of the
American BCP.
1789 was the original, and there were revisions in 1928 and 1979 and now a new one is due
in 2019, I think.
The day my husband Gordon became quadriplegic I was sitting alone in an ER in the Central Valley late at night. Restless, I went to the door and saw a man walking to-ward me. He was carrying a book. “Is that a Book of Common Prayer?” I aksed. ”Yes.” He said “Are you Louise Buck?” Bill Mahedy had called our former assistant at St David’s, Lee Peterson, who had called a local priest who had come out to bring me Communion. It was one of the most welcome sights in my life. He also found me a hotel room nearby where a nurse who was getting off at midnight dropped me off later. I checked in and walked into that room with my purse, the clothes I was wearing and a lab coat that someone had given me earlier in the day. But that’s another story….
Wednesday, July 26, 2017
Wednesday, 26 July
Mark 4:38
A
great
wind-
storm
arose,
and
the
waves
beat into
the boat, so that the
boat was already being
swamped. But Jesus was in
the stern asleep on the cushion.
Wednesday, 26 July 2017*
______________Psalm 119:54__
Your
statutes have
been
like
songs
to me
wherever
I have
lived
as a
stranger.
* Anne and
Joachim,
of whom almost nothing is known, are celebrated today as parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary. St Anne, "according to apocryphal Christian and Islamic tradition, is of David’s house & line
Tuesday, July 25, 2017
Tuesday evening
________Mark 4: 24_
And
Jesus
said
to
them,
“Pay attention
to what you hear;
the measure you give
will be the measure you get,
& still more will be given you.
Tuesday, July 25, 2017
_______St James'
Collect________
pour
upon
the
leaders
of your
Church
that
spirit of
self-denying service
by which alone
they may have
true authority
among * your people.
*St. James, first of the apostles to suffer martyrdom, the brother of John, sons of the Galilean fisherman Zebedee whom Jesus nicknamed “Boanerges” Aramaic for "The Sons of Thunder."
“according to an old tradition, the body of James was taken to Compostela Spain which is been a shrine for pilgrim-age for centuries"
* among= preposition
surrounded by; being a member
of (a larger set): one of....
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