Monday, February 5, 2018*

                      ____________________Psalm 80:14 

look down from heaven; behold and 

tend this vine, preserve 

what your right hand has planted. 

 Anskar, 801- 865, (Feb 4) the apostle to the people of Scandinavia, whose efforts did not bear im-mediate fruit, but who planted the seeds of later conversion.  Today, new to the Episcopal calendar, are Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson, Pro-phetic Witnesses, 1683, 1643, who came to Amer-ica in search of  freedon 

                              of religion.  Keep your  

Church from dis-courage

-ment in the day of small things, knowing that when you 

have begun a good work, you 

will bring it to a fruitful 

conclusion - Collect 

                              __________________Psalm 23:1

The 

Lord 

is my 

shepherd, 

I shall not be in want.

                  Being in want is                really different than wanting eh? 

The last Sunday of the first month of 2018, being IV Epiphany

                 _________________Collect of the Day 

 in 

 our 

 time 

 grant us your peace_________ 

Tuesday, January 23, 2018*

                     ____________________________Genesis 15:1

the word 

of the 

Lord came to Abram 

in a vision, 

“Do not be afraid,

 Abram,  I am your shield....”

      * Phillips Brooks 1835-1893

Bishop of Massachusetts and author of 

“O little town 

of Bethlehem” 

may we, like him, “mediate your truth with grace 

and power”- Collect 

Monday, January 22, 2018*

                             ________________The Invitatory 

               at Morning and Evening Prayer 

  “Lord, 

   open 

  our lips.” 

 “And         our mouth 

  shall 

  proclaim 

  your 

  praise.” 

*Vincent, 304, Deacon of Saragossa in Spain & Martyr

Strengthen us 

                        to endure all advers-

                 ity with invinvcible &   

            steadfast faith - Collect    

Friday at Evening Prayer

                                                                        Revelation 2:29

                    

                     

                    Let 

                    anyone 

                    who 

                    has 

                    an 

                    ear  

                    listen

                    to 

                    what 

                    the 

                   Spirit

                    is saying  to the churches. 

Monday, 13 November, 2017*

                               ________Psalm 80:14b 

  

   

    behold 

    and 

    tend 

    this 

    vine; 

    preserve 

    what your 

    right hand has planted. 

*Charles Simeon 

1759-1836, priest 

(feast day the 12th)  

May we too

“walk with Christ 

in all simplicity  

and serve you with

 a quiet mind…” Collect

Saturday Evening Prayer

                       _________________________Psalm 116:7

    Turn 

  again 

       to 

   your 

    rest, 

   o my

   soul, 

           for the Lord has treated you well. 

Friday evening

                                 Matthew 11: 2,3

When John heard in prison what the Mes-siah was doing, he sent word 

by 

his disci-

ples and said tohim, “Are you the one 

who is to come, or are we to wait for another?“

Saturday, October 14, 2017*

                _________________Psalm 137:4 

How can we sing the Lord’s song on an alien soil? 

*Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky   

         Bishop of Shanghai    

and founder in 

1879 of St 

John's Univers-

ity in Shan-

gha,i “one of 

the oldest & most prestigious 

universities in 

China, often re-

garded as the Harvard of China, according to my friend Wikipedia. 

Born in 1831 of Jewish parents in Lithuania, he im-migrated to America, was ordained a priest in 1859 after going to seminary in New York, consecrated Biship in 1877, & died in Tokyo in 1906. ^]He resigned his see in 1883 after being stricken wth

paralysis, but he none-

theless completed his translation of the Bible into Wenli “typing some 2,000 pages with the middle finger of his partially crippled hand. (Which made me a favorite saint of George Higgins!)  Four days before his death he said ‘I have sat in this chair for over 20 years. It seemed very hard at first. But God knew best. He kept me for the work for which I am best fitted.’”  ^{((Holy Women, Holy Men)} 

           All these years I had somehow missed that he had beem paralyzed for so long! Now wonder he was a favorite of the inimitable Geoege Higgins! 

Wednesday evening

                  ______________Matthew 5:38 

You have heard that 

it 

was 

said 

"An eye for an eye, 

and a tooth for tooth.” But I say to you, 

              Do not resist the evildoer

Tuesday Evening Prayer

                        ___________________________Matthew 5:37

Let 

your 

word 

be  

“Yes, 

 Yes”

or 

“No, 

 No;”

anything more 

comes from the evil one______________________

Monday, Septemr 25, 2017*

              Psalm 80:14a_______________

Behold

and 

tend

this

vine;

pre-

serve 

what 

your 

right 

hand 

has 

planted. 

                            a grapevine on my walk to church  

Oops. 

Today is 

*Sergius 

1314-1392

that 
number

must 

have 

been 

25 

not 23 

Tuesday, five September, 2017*

                ____________Canticle 13 

     

  

   Glory 

   to 

   you 

   be-

   holding 

   the 

   depths; 

   in the 

   high vault of heaven, 

             glory to you.

*Gregorio Aglipay,

     1860–1940

Principal 

founder 

and 

the 

          first 

          Supreme  

          Bishop 

          of the 

          Iglesia 

          Filipina 

          Independiente

This is the same cross  in the Memorial Garden at ST Mary’s Laguna Beach. as is yesterday morning’s post. But it    was taken in 2008 when my Mom died and this was taken yesterday, a year after Dad’s death….