second vepers

  

            the bread 

            of God 

            is that 

            which 

            comes 

            down

            from 

            heaven

            and gives 

            life 

            to the 

            world

                                                                            

                                                                                     John 6:33

                                                               Sunset on the Kona Coast

The 4th Sunday of Lent

you 

did 

not

receive 

a spirit 

of 

slavery

to

fall 

back 

into 

fear 

Romans 8:15

First Vespers of the Fourth Sunday of Lent

ever-

more

give 

us 

this 

bread 

Collect for the Fourth SUnday of Lent 

Commemoration of St Patrick, Bishop and Missionary to Ireland (AND Eddie's third birthday!)

Before the moun-tains were br-ought forth or the land and the earth was made, from age to age 

you are God. Psalm 90:2

        

                              St Patrick was born in Roman Britain circa 389. As a teen-ager he was taken to Ireland by Irish raiders, and sold as s a slave. After 6 years or so he escaped and retuned home. While in captivity, he had a religious conversion and retuned as a Christian priest and Bishop. His mission concentrated on the west and north where the Gospel had not been preached before. Patrick died in 461. 

Legend has it that St Patrick taught the people the simple yet unfathomable truth of the Holy Trinity, the One in Three, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, by showing them a shamrock, a three leaf clover.  

              Photograph of The Ring of Kerry Good Friday, 2001 

Friday

  

Do not let me 
perish in my sin,
nor be con-demned to the depths of the earth. For you,
O Lord, 

are the God of those who 

repent and in me you will

show forth your goodness. 

Unworthy as I am

you will save me, and in me you will show forth your goodness.... 

... in me you will show forth your goodness....                               Canticle 14, beloved of George Higgins  

                 Beach trail form the Hapuna Prnice to Mauna Kea

Thursday

“Come away
to a deserted place all by yourselves and rest a while.”

 John 6: 31
The beach at Kailua, Oahu

Midweek

...you

 have 

brought us in safety to this new day, preserve us with your might power... Collect for Grace  

                                                                  A mosque in Iran