The Second Sunday of Epiphany

Tuesday apraching evening

 

Friday evening

        ________________John 19:30____________

___It is finished___

The Second Sunday after the Epiphany, January 19, 2020

                                     _Collect of the day______________

         

     grant 

       that 

       your 

     people,

  illumined

    by your

      Word

        and

     Sacra-

    ments,

       may

      shine 

      with 

      the radiance of Christ’s glory

Monday, January 6, 2020 The Feast of the Epiphany: the revelation of Christ to the Gentiles

                                 _____Psalm 46:1,2a_

        

                God is 

          our refuge 

          & strength, 

                 a very  

               present 

                help in

                 trouble. 

                 Therefore we will not fear…  

Tuesday, December 17, 2019

                             _Zachariah 2:19______________ 

  Sing

   and 

rejoice, 

O dau-

 ghter 

  Zion! 

   For 

   I will come and will in your midst

             And Elizabeth! He will come! 

                  He HAS come. In me. 

                     Isn't that crazy??

The Feast of The Ascension, May 30, 2019

                                                 _Acts of the Apostles 1:9-11_ 

   

                 As 

                   they

                     were 

                   watch-

                         ing,

                     Jesus 

                        was 

                     lifted 

                          up, 

                     and a 

                      cloud 

                    took him out of their sight. 

                  While he was going and they 

              were gazing up toward heaven,

           suddenly two men in white robes   

       stood by them. They said “ …why

 do you stand looking upward…? "

out of compassion 

     for us,

         Christ

              descended 

                    from 

                        heaven 
and although he ascended 
       alone, we also ascend  be-
         cause we are in him by grace.    

                             - Augustine of Hippo

Wednesday in the Octave of Easter, April 24, 2019

                           ____________Micah 7:15_

   

       

      As 

      in 

      the 

      days 

      when 

      you 

      came 

      out 

      of the 

      land of Egypt, 

      show us marvelous things. 

And then

                      _________________Mark 6:7_

          

            go 

         and 

          tell 

           his

       disci-

         ples 

         and 

      Peter 

        that 

        he is 

        going  ahead of you to Galielee. There  

        you will see him just as he tld you. 

Thoughts after Morning Prayer: Holy Name Day used to be called The Feast of the Circumcision...

                                                     _Genesis 17:5, 10-13, 1515/ Luke 2:15_

 

This image 
has been 
in my files
for years: 
saw it as 
Jesus sweetly 

reaching for
Jospeh's face,
as  babies do.
January 1st 
is now celebrated as Holy Name Day, but growing up in the days before the 1979 Prayer Book,  the day was called The Feast of the Circumcision.  I don’t know 
how I could have Not seen until now that the image shows quite  graphically  that aspect of the day. (Maybe I just averted my gaze!)  Being “of the house and lineage of David" and so a true son of Abraham, his parents would as a matter 
of course have had him circumcised 
on the 8th day after his birth as the 
sign of the covenant that  God had 
made with Abraham.  Which makes
the image all the more poignent and
 ambiguous since Jesus is reaching
out to the preson who is conducting
the בְּרִית מִילָה‬,... I remember when I first 
realized the significnace of   the 
words of the hymn Jesus, Name
of wondrous love!

                        Jesus, Name of mercy mild,

                 Given to the Holy Child, 

        When the cup of human woe, 

   First he tasted here below. 

   ( https://youtu.be/ZwjhMP0XzNg

Jesus was also givne his name at that ceremony:  “And he was called Jesus, 
the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb,” as new names had been given to Abraham (Abram) & Sarah (Sarai) at the time that God had made the covenant with Abraham.  

O antiphon on the Magnificat for Dec 21

                                                       _________O Oriens

O Day-

spring, 

bright-

ness 

of the

Light 

Eternal, 

& Sun of 

Righteousness: Come and enlighten those

who sit in darkness and the shadow of death.