Vespers of Sts SImon and Jude

Wednesday night

Sunday, 17 October, 2021

Saturday evening

                               Easter antiphon: Psalm 42

         
          

          As 
          the 
          deer 
          longs 
           for the
             water-brooks, 
               so longs my soul 
                  for you, O God, 
                            hallelujah.   

 https://youtu.be/FBppKZ0eJlQ

January 5th! Suddenly, tomorrow is the last day of Christmas...actually, I guess TODAY is the twelfth and last day of Christmas as tomorrow is Epiphany when the star comes to a stop over the" place where the Child lay" and the wise men reach their journey's end.

    Joshua 1:9

Be strong &  

courageous; 

do not be 

frightened 

or dismayed 

for the Lord 

your God 

is with you 

wherever you go.

Even as you travel 
and strive and seek, I am with you;  I am your goal 
and you way. I am with you and in you and around you. 
I AM. 

Please pray for Oliver who is 3 and is undergoing treatment for cancer

Surely you behold trouble and misery; you see it and take it into your hand.      Psalm 10:14

"The Feast of Hugh Latimer and Nichols Ridley, bishops and martyrs 1555"

May the Lord answer you  in the day of trouble, ; the Name of the God of Jacob defend you. 

Psalm 20:1

This used to be feast of Latimer, Ridley and Thomas Cranmer. But in the new book of Lesser Feasts and Fasts (now called Holy Women, Holy Men: Celebrating the Saints)  Cranmer has a day of his own, on March 21, which surely seems appropriate.  Maybe Ridley and Latimer are together becasue they were burned at the stake together in Oxford. The Roman Catholics had taken control again in England and the rest, as they say, is history. (Cranmer was burned at the stake a year later.)  It's all very confusing. It takes one with more learning and intelligence than I have to say whether it’s salubrious to celebrate these two poor men who were barbecued for their faith - or was it more a political deal? I was not going to even mention that it was their day at all, but the church celebrates them so I have too as a faithful daughter of the church. 

"Keep us, O Lord, constant in faith and zealous in witness, that we, like your servants Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley, may live in our fear, die in your favor and rest in your peace... Amen"