uesday, August 8, 2017*

              ................Collect for Peace...

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O 

God…. 

to 

know 

you is 

eternal  life and 

to serve you is prefect freedom

  *Catherine Winkworth 

             1827–1878 

English poet & “preeminent translator of German hymns and chorales into English.” 

Martin Luther, OSA (meaning he was an Augustinian monk like our friend Bill Mahedy) was a German professor of theology, composer, priest, and a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation. Born in 1483, he died on this day in 1546

                                                                   Psalm 108:2

Wake 

up, my 

spirit; 

awake, 

lute and harp,

I myself will waken the dawn.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.  - Martin Luther 

Friday evening

                                            Mark 12:30

You shall love the Lord 

your God

with all your heart, 

and with all your mind, 

and with all your strength. 

The second is like it, you shall 

love your neighbor as your self. 

    There is no other commadment 
                       greater than these. 

Tuesday toward evening

                            Collect at Evening Prayer

      Be 

      our 

      light 

      in 

      the 

      darkness, O Lord… 

Today in the Anglican Communion we give thanks for the life and witness of Florence Li Tim-Oi (1907-1992) the first woman to be ordained a purist in this Communion.

                    from Isaiah (48:17)

Thus says the Lord, your rede-emer,
the
holy one of Israel:
  I am the Lord your God
    who teaches you for your
      own good,  who leads  you
            in the way you should go

Born in Hong Kong in 1907,  Li-TIm Oi means “beloved daughter,” she died in Canada on Feb-ruary 26, 199.2  We generally commemorate people on the anniver-sary of their death, but because of its signif-icance to the Commun-ion, this date celebrates the occasion of her ordination which occurred during, (and really because of) World War 2, on the January 25, 
1944,  the Feast of the Conversion of Saul of Tarsus. In 1949 the Communists came to power. From 1959-1974, during the  Cultural Revolution,  all the  churches were closed and she was forced to work first in on a farm and then in a factory, from which work she was allowed to retire in 1974. She was allowed to visit family in Canada in 1979 and finally moved there and was licensed as a priest in the Diocese of Montreal and then Toronto. She died in 1992 at the age of 84.  (as the info at the right says,  thanks to Holy Women, Holy Men for most of my biographical info…)