Tuesday, 4 December 2018*

                            ____________Psalm 5:3_

  

             

              In the 

           morning, 

           Lord, you 

            hear my

         voice; early 

               in the

            morning

              I make

              my appeal and watch for you.

  

  * John of 

  Damascus 

   676-749  

 monk, priest, theologian, &  the author of "The Day of Resurrection” &  “Come, ye faithhful, raise the strain." John wrote that with both the iconoclasts, who forbade the use of sacred images,  & Manichaeism, which held that that matter itself is essentially evil, the  Lord’s incarnation is rejected.  He is also  the author of "The Day of Resurrection” and  “Come, ye faithful, raise the strain."

"In the former times, 

God, who is without 

form or body, could 

never be depicted. But 

now when God is seen 

in the flesh conversing 

with men,  I make an

 image of the God who 

I see. I do not worship 

matter; I worship the 

Creator of matter who 

became matter from my 

sake, who willed to take 

his abode in matter; who 

worked out my salvation through matter.

Pray for artists who adorn church-es and write icons, (yep, you "write"  icons,)  for an appre-ciation of art &  beauty as a gift from God  & for those who teach the church 

in song. Pray es-pecially today for the war weary people & families of Syria, &  for the ancient Christian Church community there.