Saturday evening

                                                         The Sunday Collect 

                 Give 

                     us

               grace 

                     to 

              follow 

                daily

               in the 

                most 

          blessed 

          steps of 

           Christ’s  

                most 

                 holy 

                 life 

Saturday morning

                    Collect for Mission  

Lord Jesus Christ, 

you strecht-ed 
out
your arms of love on the hard wood 
of the Cross that everyone might 
come within the reach of your sav-
ing embrace. So clothe us in your
Spirit that we, reaching out our 
hands in love, may bring those who 
do not know you to the knowledge 
and love of you  

Second Vespers of the Feast of St Mary the Mother of our Lord

                                                  Collect of the Day 

O God, 

you have taken 

to yourself 

the Blessed 

Virgin Mary, mother of your  incarnate Son. Grant that we,  who have been  redeemed by his blood,

     may share with her the glory 

              of your eternal kingdom…

The Feast of St Mary, celebrated by the Church on this date since the 6th century.

             “Ye Watchers and Ye

    Holy Ones” Latin words from the 5th-8th century

  O higher than the cherubim, more glorious than the seraphim, lead their praises, alleluia. Thou bearer of the Eternal Word, most gracious, magnify the Lord, Alleluia, 

alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.

<—Mildred at the Piano

        If know know this hymn (#618 in the Episcopal Hymnal) I bet you dimes to donuts that it is singing itself in your soul. I can hear my Montanan Aunt Mildred, who would not have known it in the least, saying “You betcha” with her wonderful laugh.  

Jonathon Myrick Daniels (1939-1965) Episcopal seminarian who as shot to death during the struggle for civil rights in Selma Al.

                                                        confession of sin

we 

have 

not 

loved 

YOU with 

our 
whole heart, 
we have not loved out neighbors as ourselves 

“the faith with which I went to Selma has not changed; it has grown… I begin to know in my body & in my sinews that… we are indelibly & unspeakably one” 

My new quote from Sr Electa, OCD

       Life 

    has a life of its own. 
                              Sr Electa OCD

Jeremy Taylor, Bishop. 1613-1667

                                                                  Psalm 101:1,2b  

I will sing of mercy and  justice, 

to you, O Lord,

 I will sing praises.… I will walk with 

sincerity of heart within my house.

“God is present 
everywhere in power… 
God is especially present
 in the hearts of his people,
 by his Holy Spirit,
 and indeed, the hearts of holy [people] are temples…. in type and shadow, 
they are heaven itself.”     

            

  

Holy Living,, Jeremy Taylor