Wednesday evening

               _____________________ Psalm 119:81b

       

       I 

   have 

    put 

    my 

 trust  

     in 

  your 

word*

The 28th and last day of February, 2018 *

 _                                                                 __________________Mark 4:3, 5,6

        Listen! 

        A sower 

        went out 

        to sow. 

        Some… 

       seed 

       fell on 

       rocky 

       ground … 

       when the 

       sun rose, 

       it was scorched, and since  

       it had no root, it withered away.             

* Today we remember 2 American women who were seed sowers, er educators: 

                  Anna 

                  Julia 

                 Haywood

                 Cooper 

           (1858- 1964) 

                                 

                    and 

     Elizabeth 
     Evelyn

     Wright

   (1872-1906)

And yep, the dates are right - Mrs Cooper lived to be 110 andMrs Wright died at age 34.

Tueaday evening

                  _________________Psalm 68:19

Blessed be the Lord day by day; the God of our salvation who bears our burdens.

Tuesday, 27 February, 2018*

                                            __________Psalm 62:1a

   

               

                       For 

                      God

                      alone 

                      my

                      soul

                      in 

                      silence 

                      waits   

*George Herbert                                          1593-1633                   English Priest & Poet

 Give us grace, we pray, joyfully to perform the tasks you give us to do, knowing that nothing is menial or common that is done for your sake - Collect

 Prayer, the Church’s banquet, Angel’s age,
God’s breath in man returning to his birth,  The soul in para-phrase, the heart in pilgrimage, The Chris-tian plummet sound-ing heav’n and earth. 

  

Monday evening

                            _________________________Antiphon: Psalm 64

Protect      my life,     O Lord, from fear    of the             enemy.

     tho sometimes I think it should be "for fear is the enemy."  

Monday, February 26, 2018*

                    ______________________Psalm 57:8

Wake   up,   my spirit! Awake, lute and  harp;     

I myself will waken the dawn. 

Emily  Malbone Morgan                    1862-1937                               founder, with the support of Harriet Hastings, of the Society of the Com-panions of the Holy Cross (SCHC), in 1884 “so that women who live in the world might devote themselves to intercessory prayer, social justice, Christian unity and simplicity of life.  Help us to follow her example in prayer, simplicity, ecumenism and witness to your justice”  - Collect 

Sunday evening

                    _________________________Romans 6:4

 we have

 been 

buried 

Chirst  

by baptism into death, so that, just as he

was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too  might walk in newness of life.

February 25, 2018 the Seocnd Sunday in Lent

                                 _________Psalm 24:1, 2

The earth 

is the Lord’s

and all that 

is in it, the world and 

all who dwell therein. For it is he who founded upon the seas and made it firm up on the rivers of the deep.

Evening Prayer Saturday

                      _________________________Psalm 33:22

Let 

your 

loving-

kind-

ness, 

O Lord, be upon us, 

as we have put our trust in you.

Saturday, February 2918, the Feast of St Matthias, the apostle who was voted in by lot to who take the place of the place of Judas Iscariot so they had a full complement of 12.

                            _______________I John 2:24

 

   

    💕Let 

        what 

        you 

        heard 

        from

        the 

        beginning abide in you. 💕 

Grant that your      church, being de-livered from false apostles, may always be guided & governed by faithful & true pastors 💝-Collect  

Friday evening

                    _________________ Corinthians 3:16 

   

   Do 

   you 

   not 

   know

   that 

   you 

   are  

   God’'s temple 

   and that God’s Spirit lives in you? 

How did it get to be the 23rd, the last Friday in February, 2018* ??!

  ____________________________Genesis 40:7

Joseph asked pharaoh’s officers 

      who were with him in custody… 

          "Why are you two so bummed today?”   

It’s unusual to get a verse that  doesn’t stand alone. But this one doesn’t. This one has some context and here it is: Joseph, of the coat-of-many-colors fame, was envied by his brothers because he was both a smart ass and his father’s favorite, being the youngest. One day, Abraham sent Joseph to check on his brothers, who were off tending the sheep. The short story is that eventually, to be rid of Joseph, and net a little money into he bargain, they sold him into slavery in Egypt. The years passed and he became a  trusted servant in Pharaohs house.  Pharaoh’s wife took a shine to him and tired to seduce him, and when that didn’t work, she accused him of sexual assault and he was thrown into prison. (Twice screwed!)  At the moment, it was the cupbearer and the chief baker, who had fallen afoul of the despotic and mercurial Pharaoh who were in prison.  They had both had dreams in the night and when Joseph came in, he noticed that they seemed all bummed out and asked them why,  And that’s the stage.  Which is 180 from his beginning… Reminds me of one of my favorite Souvenir’s from a long ago meeting “The smallest package in the world  is a person wrapped up in himself.” “ 

 * Polycarp, an early bishop martyred at  Smyrna in modern day Greece in 156.  When it was demandedof him to curse Christ, he responded, ”I served Him 86 years, and He never did me any injury: how then can I blas-pheme my King and Savior?"

     May we, like , like  him, 

be holy, gentle and  bold. 

Thursday evening

                         _________Psalm 19:1 

The 

heavens 

declare 

the glory 

of God,

      and the firmament 

             shows his handiwork. 

Thursday, February 22, 2018*

                             ______________Collect for Grace

                

                 

                 in 

              you 

              we 

              live 

              and 

              move 

             and have  our being 

*Eric Liddel Olympic gold medalist re-membered 

by the church 

as a Missionary to China where he was born n 

1902 to missionary  parents. He died in a 

Japanese Concentration Camp in 1945. 

Wednesday Evening Prayer

               ____________Antiphon: Psalm 49

  Lay 

   up 

   for 

   your-

   selves 

   treasures in heaven, says the Lord.   

Wednesday, February 21, 2018*

                             ____Collect  for Grace

                in all 

               we do

               direct 
          us to the 

          fulfilling 

             of your 

            purpose

*John Henry Newman  
      1801-1890  
Anglican, priest, 
poet & theologian,
 later a Roman
 Catholic cardinal.

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but 

rather fear thatit shall never have a beginning.

Tusday Evening Prayer

… Collect for aid against perils… …  … … …

Be 

our 

light

in the 

dark-

ness, 

O Lord