First Vespers of the Feast of St Mary the Virgin

Antiphon on Psalm 45 

for First Vespers of the Feast 

Blessed 

are you, 
O daughter, 
by the 
Most 
High God, 
above
 all 
women 
of 
earth. 

Tuesday morning

Fulfill now, O Lord, 

our desires & petitions as may be best for us, granting us in this world knowledge of your truth... ( for you give) the Spirit without measure. 

A Prayer of St  Chrysostom & John 3:34

Evening Prayer

                                      Collect for Monday at Evening Prayer 

Give to us that peace which the world cannot give

And so the work week begins

                               John3:17 

God did 
not send the son into the world 
to cond-emn the 
world, but that the world might 
be saved through him. 

Sunday Evening Prayer

                         Psalm 46:11a

Be 

still 

then 

and 

know 

that 
I

am 

God 

         Be still then and know   
         Be still then
         Be still           
         Be

A Sunday in Ordinary Time

                                                                                                       Mark 4:37-40

A great wind-storm 

arose,
so that the boat was already being swamp-ed. But Jesus was in the stern, asleep on a cushion; and they woke him and they said to him “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?"  Jesus woke up and he rebuked the wind and said to the sea “Peace! Be Still!”  Then then the wind ceased and there was 
a dead calm. He said to them, "Why are you afraid? Have you no faith?” 

I don’t think I have never noticed that little detail before. After posting my blog I went in to meditate on the passage  and I realized I had left out “he rebuked the wind”Before saying to the sea “Peace! Be still!” The underlying cause of the sea swamping the boat was the wind which was whipping up the waves... And he took care of the Cause before he addressed the immediate Consequence of the problem... A teeny detail perhaps but how cool is That!? 

Saturday after a hot day

                                    Phos hileron 

now, as we 
come to the setting of the sun and our eyes behold the vesper light, we sing your praises O God, Father, Son & Holy Spirit