_Psalm 124:8__________________________
Our help
is in the name *
* of the Lord
Tieoplo Sky
Tiepolo Clouds
Tuesday, June 30, 2020
Tuesday, the final day of the sixth month of 2020
______________Psalm 121:1,2_
I lift up
my eyes
to the hills;
from where
is my help
to come?
My
help comesfrom the Lord,
the maker of heaven &earth.
Monday, June 29, 2020
Monday, June 29, 2020 the Feast of St Peter and St Paul
_________Psalm 66:9__
you,
O Lord,
have
tried
us
just
as silver is tried.
as silver is tried.
Such different guys who helped shape
Christianity in
its infancy-
Peter, who followed Jesus from the very beginning of His ministry, and Paul, who was only called
to be an apostle After the resur-rection; a fisherman and one Pharisee each with their
gifts and defects, but each followers of Jesus
in their own unique ways. As we are still today, each of us, all of us called + equipped + tried + sent out + gathered back in again + again + again. If all the acts of all the apotless were written down, the whole world would not be
big enough to tell the on-going tale.
Christianity in
its infancy-
Peter, who followed Jesus from the very beginning of His ministry, and Paul, who was only called
to be an apostle After the resur-rection; a fisherman and one Pharisee each with their
gifts and defects, but each followers of Jesus
in their own unique ways. As we are still today, each of us, all of us called + equipped + tried + sent out + gathered back in again + again + again. If all the acts of all the apotless were written down, the whole world would not be
big enough to tell the on-going tale.
Sunday, June 28, 2020
First Vespers of Saints Peter and Paul
__Festal Antiphon for Psalm 23__
Do
you
love
me?
Feed
my
sheep.
The last Sunday in June, 2020
____________________________Psalm 118:14_
The Lord is my strength and my song,
and he has become my salvation.
and he has become my salvation.
Saturday, June 27, 2020
Saturday evening
Collect for tomorrow, adapted
grant
us so
to be
joined
in unity
of spirit
that we
that we
may be made whole
Saturday, June 27, 2020
_________________Psalm 108:1b,2b_
I
will
sing
& make
melody.
I myself
will wak-
en the dawn.
It was so still in the back-
yard early this morning
that even the flutter
of the little birds
wings was
loud!
that even the flutter
of the little birds
wings was
loud!
Friday, June 26, 2020
Friday evening
_Romans 6:10-11___________________________
The death that he died, he died to sin once for all, but the life he lives, he lives to God.
So also consider yourselves dead
to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus
Friday, June 26, 2020
_____________________Numbers 20:7 -12 _
The
Lord
Lord
spoke
to Moses
saying…
assemble
assemble
the congregation…
and command the rock
to yield its water.
and command the rock
to yield its water.
Thus you shall bring
water out of the rock.
So Moses took the staff from before the
Lord… gathered the assembly together
before the rock and he said to them,
Listen, you rebels
shall we bring water for
you out of this rock?” Then
Moses lifted up his hand and
struck the rock twice …
and water came out of abundantly…
But the Lord said to Moses…
because you did not trust me,
to show my holiness before the
eyes of the Israelites, therefore
you shall not bring this assembly in-
to the land that I have given them.
to show my holiness before the
eyes of the Israelites, therefore
you shall not bring this assembly in-
to the land that I have given them.
The Word of the Lord.
I always have heard this as God being
arbitrary. But he has spent the last
number of years saying: “Listen. What
did I say? What were the words I used?"
Today, I read it and though OH!!!!!
Thursday, June 25, 2020
Toward evening.Thursday
_Romans 5:3-5______________
…suffering
…suffering
produces
endurance,
+endurance
produces
character,
+character
produces
hope, +hope
does not
disappoint us,
because God‘s
love has been poured into our hearts
through the Holy Spirit that he has given us.
Thursday, June 25, 2020
_____________Psalm 105:4_
Search
for the
Lord
and his
strength,
continually
seek his face.
Today on the Episcopal calendar we commemorate
James Weldon Johnson,
(1871-1938)
born just 6 years after he Civil War ended and 8 years after the nominal end of slav-ery with the Emancipation Proc-lamation.
In 1900, Johnson a poet,
collaborated with his bro-
ther Raymond who was a composer, to create
Lift every Voice and Sing. https://youtu.be/tvCfNziHdDI
Wednesday, June 24, 2020
Wednesday evening
_______________________________Collect of the day___
may we,
following
John’s
example,
constantly
speak the
truth, boldly
rebuke vice and
patiently suffer for the truth’s sake
The Nativity of John the Baptist. Wednesday, June 24, 2002
________________________________Psalm 98:1_
Sing
to
the
Lord
a new
song,
for he has done wonderful things.
I got a call about church yesterday: “We’re going to clean out the big vestment closet tomorrow: it’s going to be a long time before we share vestments again and before we need chalice bearers. Why don’t you go down and take home an alb and a cassock and surplice that fit you.”
So I went down. How many times have I been in the quiet of that vesting room? How many times have I been there vesting with a whole parade of people through the years, old and young, for Sunday morning Eucharists and vigil services, episcopal visitations, baptisms, funerals, clergy transitions, all of us celebrating and mourning together All these 40 years. It began for me almost inadvertently - growing up female in the church, I thought my place was in the kitchen (sacristy) and when I came to San Diego I did altar guild and flowers. And then one day the acolyte didn’t show up and the priest said, “Go suit up.” Which I did and the rest is history. And suddenly here I was on the other side of that. And I Was bereft. I felt in freefall. "Suddenly all that sheltererd me is gone." Again. All we have is God. Luckily, all we need is God. But sometimes that is cold comfort and there is no way through but through.
It was true for Jesus. It is true tofay.
It was true for Jesus. It is true tofay.
This morning I sat down to do Morning Prayer for this feast that changes the history of the world, this tiny linchpin between the old age and the new born to a barren woman, the birth of the “prophet of the Most High,”
Here’s my verse - the antiphon on the first psalm of the day, 82. “All the foundations of the earth are shaken.” But I had no image to go with it and no place to satrt. “No,” God whispered, “Read on” I jumped willy-nilly, past all the pain and the process to the Benedictus. “No,” came the whisper " Go back to the beginning.: you left off at the second psalm.” Start there,” God whispered.
I once heard at the AA meeting,
which is all about “new life spring-
ing up all green an gorgeous in
the midst of loss,
“Things are not going to be all right.
Things are all right right now.”
Sing to the Lord a new song.
Tuesday, June 23, 2020
Eve of the Nativity of J the B
Canticle 10: BCP Pg 86
My
word
will
not
return
to me
empty,
but it
will
prosper
in that for which I sent it.
Tuesday, June 23, 2020
__________________Collect for Peace_
To
know
you is
eternal
life +to
serve you
is perfect freedom
Monday, June 22, 2020
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