Tuesday evening

                                    ___________________Psalm 126:1_

  

  Unless 

       the

    Lord 

  builds 

      the 

  house,

    their 

      labor is in vain who build it.

Tuesday, March 31, 2020*

                                __________Psalm 122:7,8_

          

Peace be 

 within 

  your 

   walls 

    and 

     quiet-

       ness 

        within

          your towers.

            For my siblings &

             my companion’s sake, 

              I pray for your prosperity. 

*Today we 

commemorate 

John Donne 
priest & poet 

Jan 22,1572 -
Mar 31,1631  

               Upon an Emergent Occsison 

Monday evening

                  _____________________I Corinthians 14:1_

 Pursue love

Monday, March 30, 2020

                  _______________________Mark 9 :33,34_

Jesus 

asked 

them,

 “What were you arguing about on the way?” But they were silent, for on the way there and argued with one another about who is the greatest.

That Oops moment.

Sunday evening

                             ___________I Corinthians 13:13_

                   

                   Now,

                    faith, 

                    hope 

                    and 

                    love 

                    en-

                    dure, 

                    these

                    three,

                    and the greatest of these is love.

Saturday evening

             ____________________Collect V Lent_

  

    

    grant 

     that 

   among

      the 

    swift 

     and 

      varied changes of the world,

           our hearts may surely there be fixed 

                   where true joys are to be found

Saturday, March 28, 2020

                                     _____________________Exodus 3:4_ 

               When

               the 

               Lord 

               saw 

               that he 

               had turned aside 

              to see, God called to him…

Friday evening

                                       _________I Corinthians 12:17_

   

      Now  

      you 

      are 

      the body 

      of Christ 

      and individually members of it.

Thursday, March 27, 2020

Lenten Antiphon Ps 95 

Harden 

not your 

hearts,

listen 

to his 

voice

  Before the original 

building  in which St David’s Church generally gathers  burned down in an arson fire,I did
my morning meditation in that enclosing 
space before that beautiful wooden altar. 
One day I came out and announced in ash-
ton- ishment,  “When Jesus died he was dead-
er than a doorknob.”  Epiphanies, when spoken
aloud, often seem distressingly  obvious  and
the rector and the deacon who were standing
talking in the hallway looked at me with  “Well
 DUH”expressions.  It had just never reached into my core and landed with such a thud
that  when Jeusus  died, he was actually, 

totally,  physically and decidedly  dead. 

And still th words give me a shiver.

I had a similar realization today in Morn-

ing Prayer, which may bring a similar be-
mused reaction to you standing in the hall…
 The first read-ing is the familiar story of
Moses in the bullrushes (Exodus 2.) For 

the first time today I heard the miracle
in the mundane facts.  When Pharaoh’s
daughter found the little guy,  “she took
him as her son.”  And this despite  her

father’s stated public policy of killing all
male babies born to “Hebrew women,” 

That was pretty cool but then  in the Gospel
reading (Mark 9)  Jesus  is “taking “James and
John” and going up the mountain toof trans-
figuration. ”. And there, with Jesus, is Elijah
And Moses  Moses, who would not have
survived at ALL except for individual
women’s decisions and actions.  

There’s a lot about getting older that I 
don’t like and wouldn’t choose. . But see-
ing how stories come together, how the
individual  pieces fit,  how things turn 
out, is one of the best things I know. 

And it’s even brighter for me personally 
sincee today is the anniversary of  my 
 baptism, when I was plucked from the 
bullrushes and raised  God’s own child. . 

  

Thursday Evening

                   _Psalm 73:24_____________

        
         
        
         You 

          will

        guide

          me 

         with 

        your 

        coun-

          sel,

          and

           afterwards 
            receive me with glory. 

Thursday, March 26, 2020

                      ____________________________Psalm 59:36_

  Let the 

heavens 

 and the 

    earth 

   praise

     God,

         the seas and all that move in them.       

Wednesday evening

  __Today’s Antiphon: Psalm 45__

In 

this 

was 

the 

love 

of 

God 

made 

manifest 

among us… 

Wednesday, March 25, 2020, The Feast of the Annunciation

                                           ________Today’s Antiphon Ps 85_ 

  

      Truth 

      has 

      sprung 

      up 

      from 

      the 

      earth, 

      and 

      righteous-

       ness has 

        looked down from heaven 

                             

So here we are, 9 months 
 to the day be-fore Christmas 
  celebrat-ting the first moments, 
   the inception, the conception of God 
    enfleshed.  Nature springing up, right-
     eousness looking down, Com-ing down, 
       with the fruition in the bleak mid-winter. 
                   Let heaven and nature sing.
https://youtu.be/VDmIddF7DfQ     

Tuesday night

  __________I Corinthians 11:28__________

Exam-

ine 

your-

selves 

and 

only 

then 

eat  

of 

the

bread 

and 

drink 

of 

the

cup.

Tuesday, March 24, 2020

Monday evening

                                                            ________________I Corinthians 10:17_

     we 

     who 

     are 

     many 

     are 

     one

     body 

     for 

     we all 

     partake 

     of the one bread.     

Monday, March 23, 2020 in the midst of a pandemic

                    ______Psalm  8 9:1, 2_

Your 

love,

O Lord,

for ever 

will I sing, 

from age to 

age… for I  am 

persuaded that 

your love is  esta-

blished forever; for 

you  have set your faith-

fulness firmly in the heavens.

               until just now I have seen/

                felt/heard "the heavens"  as 

              unchangingly consistent/the 

            same but they change from 

          moment to moment which 

        should help us think about 

      permanence and change. 

                         

                          i thank you God for most this amazing day:

                          for the leaping greenly spirits of trees

                          and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything

                          which is natural which is infinite which is yes

                         (i who have died am alive again today,

                         and this is the sun's birthday; this is the birth

                        day of life and love and wings and of the gay

                        great happening illimitably earth)

   

                        how should tasting touching hearing seeing

                        breathing any-lifted from the no

                        of all nothing-human merely being

                        doubt unimaginable You?

                         (now the ears of my ears awake and

                        now the eyes of my eyes are opened) 

                                             - e e cummings 

Sunday evening

                                                                                                                          Romans 8:24

Now 

hope 

that is 

seen 

is not 

hope.

The Fourth Sunday in Lent, March 22, 2020

Saturday evening

                    _______Antiphon on the Magnificat_ 

  

          I

      am

      the

  living 

 bread 

    that

  came 

  down

   from

heaven