Friday night

  _Psalm 96:2______________________

Sing to 

the Lord 

and bless

 his Name;  

proclaim 

the good 

news of 

his salva-

tion  from 

day to day.  

__________________________________

Friday, November 30, 2018 the feast of Saint Andrew the Apostle

                _____________Psalm 34:4&8_

I sought 

the Lord 

and he 

answered 

me and 

delivered 

me out 

of all my terror.

             Taste and see that the Lord is good; 

                      happy are they who trust in him. 

The brother of Peter, 

Andrew was the first 

of the 12 called by 

Jesus to follow him 
and is usually the first 
saint in the new liturg-
ical year which begins
with the First Sunday 
of Advent, Dec 2 
this year.

The patron saint 

of Scotland, their  

flag represents that 

Andrew was said to 
have been crucified 
on an x shaped cross

Give us grace 
to follow with-
out delay and 
bring those near 
to us into his gracious presence -Collect

Thursday, November 29, 2018

 Thursday Evening Collect 

Lord 

Jesus… 

be our 

companion 

in the way,  

kindle our 

hearts and 

awaken hope

Tuesday night November 27, 2018

                          __I Corinthians 3: 21-23_ 

       
                 
                 all 
            things 
                are
             yours,
           …the world 
         or life or 
    death or the
       present or
       the future
        - all belong to you 
           and you belong to Christ 
             and Christ belongs to God.

          

Saturday night

 ____________________________James 2: 8_ 

  You do well if you really fulfill the royal law  

                                     according to the Scripture; 

      " You shall love you neighbor  as yourself." 

Saturday, November 17, 2018*

                         __________Psalm 87:6b_

   

         “All 

            my 

         fresh  

      springs 

  are in you.” 

I’m skipping over 2 dudes of the day who were 13th century bish-ops of Lincoln to tomorrow to get to  

*Hilda , 618- 680, 

Abbess of Whitby, 

who ruled over a mixed house of 

men and women in the Celtic tradition.

 

Give us grace 
to recognize +
accept the 
varied gifts
you bestow
on men +
women, that 
our common life may be enriched
+ your gracious will be done-Collect

                   _________________Antiphon on Psalm 92

     
We 

will tell
 of your  

    loving-  
kindness
       early
   in  the 
  morning, O Lord,  and of your faithulness 

                                                                    in the night season.

Friday, November 16, 2018*

                  ____________________Psalm 88:12

Will your loving- kind-ness be declared in the grave? Your faithfulness in the land of destruction? 

* Margaret,

  Queen of 

  Scotland 

    1093

As well as 

being a wife  & mother, helping the people &

reforming 

the church, she & her husband Malcolm rebuilt the monastery of Iona.!

                        O God,       

                  you gave your 

           servant Margaret 

  special love for the poor: 

give us, we pray, that same 

love, that we may be living 

signs of your goodness   

-Lutheran Collect

Thursday, 15 November, 2018*

_                               ____________Psalm 27:11_ 

                      

           Y_u  

           speak 

           in my 

           heart 

           and 

           say, 

        “Seek

           my

           face.”” 

                     Your face Lord, will I seek.  *

*Francis Asbury  1816  & George Witfield 1770 Evangelists 

who “shared a tie with the movement of John Wesley” 

(1791) were part of the ”Great Awakening” 

in America in 1740.. 

Inspire us, we pray,=

by your Holy Spirit,, 

that like them, we 

may be eager to 

share your Good 

News and lead 

many to Y*u

-Collect

At Evening Prayer Wednesday

____________________________________________Psalm 81:7a_

  

  You 

   cal-

   led 

   on 

   me 

   in  

   trouble,  and I saved you_________________________

Wednesday, November 14, 3018

                                    __________Psalm 119:102

    

                               

                                I do not 

            shrink  

            from 

            your 

            judge-

            ments, 

            be-

            cause 

            you 

            yourself have taught me.

   * The

 Consecration 

  in 1794 of 

Samuel Seabury

(1729- 1796) 

the first bishop of the American Episcopal Church. After being chosen, he sailed for England to be consecrated. Although he had served as a chaplain in the British Army during the Revo-lutionary War, now an American citizen, he could not a swear allegiance to the crown, the head of the Anglican Church in Great  Britain since Henry VII, when we went from The Church IN England to the Church OF  England.* So that was out. A Year later he was finally consecrated In Abredeen by 3 non-juring bishops in the Episcopal Church

 in Scotland, thus en-suring the apostolic succession. There are always 3 bishops as consecrators - so there’s always at least ONE who didn’t slip through the cracks! I love it that when the bishop lays hands on you in Confirmation, those hands go directly back to the apostles and to the  hands of Jesus himself.  At the General Convention of 1792, he was fianlly able to join  with 2 other duly consecrated bishops in the consecration of the first  Episcopal  Bishop on American soil

                       Grant that , joined together 

                   in unity with our bishops, & 

            nourished by your  holy sacraments, 

      we may proclaim the Gospel of redemption 

    with apostolic zeal  Collect

*Which makes for an interesting opportunity to pause and consider the relationship and interaction and challenge of our political and out spiritual allegiances… It can’t have been an effortless transition from one political allegiance to another, although I had never really thought of it before.

             (Our friend Bill always claimed  

                   that when the consecrators laid 

                        hands on the new bishop, they 

                               were taking out his spine!  

                                       But that’s another matter.)