Thursday morning

Friday!

                                                                     Easter Antiphon 

                                                                              on Psalm 16 

You 

will

show 

me the 

path of life, hallelujah.

                                                         I really like this picture 
with this verse-   it’s taken out near Campo and reminds 
me of my husband Gordon and the railroad going through Carrizo Gorge. But more than that,  it is Easter, the ulti-mate the coming out of the darkness into light. There is another picture taken farther back in the tunnel but all you can see is the brightness of the light ahead, and when I look at it I find I'm still holding my breath, at least metaphorically. Here  you’re coming out into the sunlight - there’s even a  little green grass.

           You will show me the path of life: 

        in your presence of fulness of joy, 

    & in your right hand are pleasures for evermore. (v 11) 

                                   I am reading a little daily book of snippets from Madeleine L’Engle called Glimpse of Grace  (which puts me in mind of our friend Bill Mahedy’s book Traces of Grace)  I haven't gotten as far as today's yet. I still have to go back and finish Morning Prayer: But here’s a neat quote from yesterday:     

                                      " I enjoy [my faith] because it’s true, not necessarily factual, but true. If it's factual, I don't need faith for it." 

Today we remember the author Gunter Grass who died today at the age of 87

  Easter Antiphon on Psalm 3

Deliver-
ance 

belongs
to he
Lord,
hallelujah. 

Charles Henry Brent, Bishop of the Philippines, and Western New York, 1862-1929 .And the anniversary of my baptism.

                                           Romans 11:16, 18

If 

the 

root 

is 

holy, 

then 

the branches are holy… remember, 

that it  is not you that support 

the root, but the root that 

supports you. 

Born in 1862, in 1901 Charles Henry Brent was elected missionary bishop to the Philippines. He served in World War 1 as Senior Chaplain of the American Expeditionary Forces and later still served as  Bishop of Western New York. The central focus of his life and ministry was Christian unity. He was "a man whom soldiers were proud to salute and children were happy to play with, who could dominate a parliament and minister to an invalid, a priest and bishop who gloried in the heritage of his Church, yet who stood among all Christian[s] as one who served…"  Also a man of prayer, he wrote the last of the three Collects for Mission at Morning Prayer  (BCP  page  101)) 

                       Lord Jesus Christ, you stretched out your arms of love on the hard wood of the cross that everyone might come within the reach of your saving embrace: so close us with your Spirit that we, reaching forth our hands in love, may bring those who do not know you to the knowledge and love of you; for the honor of your Name.

Today in the Episcopal Church we remember John (1703-1791) and Charles (1717-1788) Wesley, Renewers of the Church.

                                                                Psalm 62:1

For God alone my soul  in silence waits; from him comes my salvation. 

Love divine, all loves excelling, joy of heaven, to earth come down, 

fix in us thy  humble dwelling, all they faithful mercies crown. Jesus, thou art all compassion, pure, unbounded love thou art; visit us with thy salvation, enter every

                                                   trembling heart. 

                                                           Hymn # 657 v.1           

                                                            Charles Wesley

John and Charles Wesley 

were English priests  during the 18th century revival who discovered  a “method”  of re-invigorating the faith of Anglicans. Renewal is never easy i n any age, apparently! Though they  never left the established church  they opened their first “Methodist” chapel in Bristol 

in 1740, and after their death the Methodists became a separate denomination. Charles especially was a prolific hymn writer, and his hymns, as our Margret is fond of saying, were sermons complete in themselves. 

                  The wonderful New (Methodist) Book of Festivals and Commemorations, suggests prayer today 

 - for hearts burning with the love of God,

 - for a deepened spiritual life,

 - for a social conscience, and 

 - for the reconciliation of the Methodists and Anglicans. 

The first day of March (ALREADY???!!)i s St David's Day!

                                Psalm 29:11

The Lord 

will give strength to his people, the Lord will give his people the blessing of peace. 

Ready to celebrate St David’s Day = flowers in Lent! And the frontal custom made for us by the Rev Ralph Carskaden when Richard Lief was rector. 

The Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany

                                                                          Psalm 66:2a

Say

to 

God 

“How 

awe-

some

 are your deeds!”

A foggy Thursday morning

                                                                                                     Psalm 37:5a

          Commit

          your 

          way 

          to the 

          Lord 

          and 

          put 

          your

          trust

          in 
          him. 

William Byrd (1623) John Merbeck (1585) Thomas Tallis (1585)

                                              Antiphon on Part One of Psalm 105

Sing 
to the 
Lord, 
and  
re-member the marvels he has done, hallelujah.   

Grant, we pray, 

to all who are touched by the power of music such glimpses of eternity that they may be ready to ... behold your glory unveiled

Collect of the Day 

Sunday evening

Psalm 34:14

Turn

from 

evil 

and 

do 

good; 

seek 

peace 

and 

pursue 

it. 

Thursday

                                                                   Psalm 18:1a

I 

love 

you, 

O 
Lord, 

my 

strength