Friday, 20 October, 2017

                 ____________________Psalm 16:11 & 

         Friday Collect__________________

You 

will 

show 

me 

the 

path 

of life… grant that we find it none other than the 

way of life & peace

  *William Carey 

    1761 – 1834, 

  "Shoemaker by trade, but scholar, linguist & missionary 

by God's training,” was a British 

born Baptist mis-sionary to India where he spent 

41 years, and also rememebred as a social reformer, cultural, anthro-pologist & founder  of the Serampore College & University, the first degree awarding University in India. He translated the Bible into Bengali & Sanskrit & the New Test-ament in the other Indian languages 

& dialects, as well as completing  

a Bengali-English dictionary.

carey-shirarmpur-railway-station

                  And he did. 

   

Wednesday, 18 October, 2017, the Feast of Saint Luke the Evangelist

                            _____________________Ezekiel  47:1,9

from 

below 

the 

thres-

hold 

of the

temple  

water was flowing and everything 

will live where the water goes

                         St Luke’s Gospel  is marked by 

a special concern for the poor, the margin-alized, women, and social outcasts. He had the most vital sense of God‘s pres-ence in ongoing history, which is 

why the story does not end  at the resur-rection and ascen-sion, but Luke con-tinues in The Acts of the Apostles, with Pentecost, the missionary journeys of Paul and the ongoing story of Christ’s presence in the life of the church and in the midst of the world. (From the inimitable  Give Us This Day)   Each of the Evan-

have a symbol. Luke’s is a winged ox  

(from Ezekiel) 

an animal of sacrifice, but 

one with wings. 

 Matthew’s sym-bol is a winged man, Mark’s, a  winged lion, and John, an eagle.  Hah! It took me 69 years to realize that the eagle is the only one that is naturally winged ! 

Saturday, September 16, 2017*

  _______________I Kings 19:7

The 

angel 

of the 

Lord… 

touched 

him & 

said, 

"Get up 

and eat, 

otherwise 

the journey 

will be too 

much for you.”  

      *Ninian, Bishop 

in Galloway c.430, who

 "together with Patrick is one of the links of continuity between the ancient Roman/British church and the devel-oping Celtic Christianity 

of Ireland and Scotland.”

Friday, August 11, 2018*

                       ________Canticle 10__

…as rain + 

snow fall 

from the 

heaven +... 

water the 

earth; Bring-

ing forth 

seed for 

sowing +

bread for 

eating, so 

is my word 

that goes forth form my mouth; to will not return to me empty… 

*Clare of Assisi, 1194-1253 

    founder of The 

     Poor Clares 

     We become 

    what we love 

   + who we love 

shapes what we become.

   If we love things, 

  we become a thing. 

  If we love nothing, 

  we become nothing. 

   Imtation is not a…

   mimicking of Christ, 

rather it means becoming 

             the image of the beloved, 

an image disclosed through transformation. This means we are to become vessels of 

  God's compassionate love for others. 

Monday, 10 July, 2018

                             _________________Acts 9:18__ 

“Br-other Saul, the Lord Jesus, who app-eared to you on your way here has sent me to you to regain your sight and to 

be filled with the Holy Spirit.”  

Without being conscious of it, 

I guess I have always seen the conversion of Saul into Paul 

as his being knocked off 

his horse. I 

had never real-ly recognized this as an in-dispensable part of a single story. AT first held back by fear and doubt, (“You want me to WHAT, Lord?”) 

Anan-ias is the indispensable second actor in Saul’s conversion. And we have a repetition of Jesus’s command: “Unbind him…” The interaction of the human and the Divine. God begins and then we can (and must) play our part. Without that the healing is not complete. This pat-tern is seen in each and every instance of recovery from alcoholism for sure!   

Thursday, June 29, 2017 the Feast of St Peter and St Paul, Apostles, though only Pete knew Jesus during his life on earth….

  _________________Psalm 105:3__

  Glory in God’s holy Name,

       let the hearts of those 

  who seek the Lor rejoice.  

sometimes we think we know know Who are following and 

sometimes we 

are surprised 

at the discovery 

but in either case we are found by God. 

Saturday, 27 May, 2017*

       ________________Hebrews 4: 14,16__

Since we have a high pr-iest 

who has pas-

sed thr-ough the heav-

ens…

 Let us therefore approach the throne of grace with boldness 

so that we may receive mercy   

and find grace to help 

in time of need.

*Today in the 
Episcopal Church 
we remember Bertha
and Ethelbert, 
queen + king of Kent 
616. On Pentecost 
599 he was baptized, 
becomingthe first 
Christian English kiing.  

We 
pray 
that, 

like 
them, 
we may show the goodness 
of your Word not only by 
our words but in our lives
__Collect__________________

The Friday of the three day Memorial Day weekend in the US, May 26, 2017*

                                                        Psalm 85:8

            

            I will listen 

            to what the 

             Lord God 

               is saying, 

                for he is

               speaking 

               peace to his faithful people, and 

              to those who turn their hearts to him.  

*It’s also the feast of 

St Augustine of Canter--

bury, the  first such who was who sent to the British Isles by Gregory the Great,

 and who died on this date May 26th in6605

(Justin Welby is 105th)

  

         may we do your will,

         and bide our time, 

         and see your glory 

                          — Collect

The Ascension!

_______________ Ascension Collect_______ 

  Christ hasascended far above 

           the heavens 

  that he might fill all things

_____________________________________________

*today we 

also remember 

The Venerable 

Bede, 672- 735, 

monk and scholar 

at Jarrow. 
Called as a child, 

his tomb 

is in 

Durham 

cathedral