Friday, September 13, 2019*

                                     _Philippians 3:12_______

              I press on… 

                 because 

                    Christ 

                    Jesus 

               has made 

            me his own.

* John Chrysostom , 

         354-407  

          Bishop of 

     Constantinople  

 This Prayer of St

     Chryssostom, 

  =“golden-tongued”

   is at the end of 

   Morning Prayer.

                                                                Almighty God, 

you have given us grace at this time with one accord 

to make our common  supplication to you; and you 

have promised through your well beloved Son that 

when two  or three are gathered together in his Name, 

you will be in the midst of them: fulfill now, O Lord, 

our desires and petitions as may be best for us; 

granting us in this world knowledge of your truth, 

and in the age to come life everlasting. Amen 

                                          Understanding the Word 

depends on hearing it aright and this is an interesting

 case, especially if you grew up with the 1929 Prayer 

Book.  In that era, weekly Eucharist was not the norm 

and  so we were familiar with Morning Prayer,  its 

cadence, its prayers and its canticles. and hence
with  this particular prayer.  It appeared for the first
time in the  first revision of the English Prayer Book,
 in 1554, and in translating it into English,  Cranmer
 unwittingly reproduced an error in the Latin prayer,
 whichmistakenly conflated two separate scriptural
 references.  And so for 425 years, from 1554 until
1979,   when we prayed this prayer, we claimed that
 “when two or three are gathered together you will
grant their request.”  * That’s really different  than
saying when we’re together you’ll BE THERE.
The latter  seems  more congruent with  Episcopal 
theology.  There’s a saying in the church which I love: 
“Lex orandi, lex credendi” which  loosely translates  
 “if you wnat to know what we believe, look at what 
we say in prayer.”  Wikipedia says: prayer and be-
lief are integral to eachother and  liturgy is not dis-
tinct from theology."

                                       *

*Poor Jesus. I can just magine hm shaking his head 
and saying “I didn’t say that!”  :-)   I suspect that he  

                                 says that a lot these days! 

Tuesday, August 13, 2019*

                     ___________________ Psalm 97:11_

Light has sp-

rung up for the righteous &

joyful gladness 

for those who are true hearted.  

* Jeremy Taylor, 1613 -1667   

English bishop & theologian  

during the time of Oliver

Cromwell, and author of

Holy Living, Holy Dying. 

         Guide us, O Lord, 

in all the changes and 

varieties of the world;  

that we may have even-

nness  and tranquility of spirit; that we may 

not murmur in adversity nor in prosperity

wax proud, but in serene faith resign our 

souls to the divine will; 

through Jesus Christ 

our Lord. 

                                             Siri heard it as  

                                      "redesign our souls."

                                   Enough said. 

Tuesday, August 6, 2019, being The Feast of the Transfiguration of Jesus

               _____________Psalm 2:8a______________

   

    Ask 

      of 
     me 

    and 
       I 

    will 

    give

    you 

     the 
     nations for your inheritance
  ____________________________________

But we have 

this treasure 

is clay jars so 

that it may be  

clear that this 

extraordinary 

power belongs 

to God and does 

not come from us. 

II Corinthians 4:7

_____________________________________ 

https://youtu.be/IAZhIw49ULc

TGIF! May 17, 2019*

                         ______________________Wisdom 6:12,16_

Wisdom 

is rad-

iant &

unfad-

ing, she 

is easily discerned by those who love her, she is

found by those who seek her… she graciously 

appears to them in their paths and meets 

them in every thougt.

                  

                      

    

          

          * William 

                  Hobart 

                       Hare ,             

                             1818-1909,     

 

the first 

Missionay  

Bishop to the 

Niobrara Teritory 

and the first Bishop 

of South Dakota, 

often called "the 

 Apostle to the Sioux"

Strengthen us  

with your Holy Spirit 

that we may walk in their  

footsteps & lead many to faith  -Collect 

Saturday evening

__Antiphon: Magnificat______________________

After eight days, 

when the doors

 were shut, the 

Lord entered 

and said to them: 

Peace be with you, alleluia. 

______________________________________

_*_________________________

______________________Antiphon: Magnificat_

      After eight days, when the doors were shut, 

   

          the Lord entered and said to them: 

                                Peace be with you, alleluia. 

                            *_______________* 

Monday The First Day of April, 2019*

                                         _________Jeremiah 16:12/Psalm 89:14_

   

      

      Here 

      you 

      are, 

      every

      one 

      of you, 

      following 

      your own 

      stubborn 

      evil will, 

      refusing to listen…    

             

             Righteousness & justice are the foundation 

     of your throne; love & truth go before your face.

*Frederick D. Maurice 

      1805-1872 

 English priest, founded 

the Christian Socialist 

Movement, which com-

mitted Christians “at once 

to the conflict we must 

engage in sooner or later 

with the unsocial Christians 

and unchristian Socialists.”  In the same year that Karl Marx wrote that religion was “the opiate of the people”, Maurice, who saw worship worship as the meeting point of time and eternity, wrote ”We have been dosing our people with religion when what they want is the living God.’

                             *

                                                        I 

                                                thought 

                                          my verse was 

                                      the “foundations”  

                                   But I got "wait" and

                                read on. When I got to

                          Jeremiah that was it.  But I 

                      was unsure what to do do until I  

                 found this terrific picture of Jeremiah

             with his head in his hands. And poor God 

       is so often like that with us, shaking his head. 

    I didn’t realize until right now that the “founda-

tions” in this are the two pillars! Doing this is so fun!

Friday! March 22, 2019*

        will our unfaithfulness  

    nullify the  faithfulness of God’s? 

                                             By no means!     

              _____Romans 3:3*_ 

  * James DeKoven, 

          1831 - 1879 

  American priest trained at Nashota House who was  so  “high church”   that not enough dioceses would consent to his consecration as bishop of two separate dioceses.  I do love his  statement to the General Convention of 1874: (And men it was whether gentle or not,  since women were not seated as delegates until 1946 - a lay delegate of course… women in holy orders was in the future…)  

                         You may take away from us, if you will, 

                         every external ceremony;  you may take 

                         away altars and super altars, lights and 

                         incense and  vestments;… and we will 

                        submit to you. But,  gentlemen…To adore 

                       Christ’s Person in his sacrament – that is

                        the inalienable privilege of every Christian 

                        and  Catholic heart. How we do it, the way 

                        we do it, the ceremonies* with which we 

                           do it,  are utterly, utterly indifferent.  

                         The thing   itself is what we plead for.  

                                                                *         
   *For the ceremonies Siri heard “the Sarah Moni’s” just to 
show once again what a pagan Siri- and the culture- is) 
         
                                                                                                    * R omans 3:3 
is actually THEIR unfaithfulness… Paul is carrying on about his 
own people, the Jews,  and the true meaning of circumcision. 
Which is what DeKoven is saying too….