Reprise

                                                 Romans 16;19

           

             

            

           

          I  want 

           you 

           to be 

           wise 

           in 

           what 

           is good,               

          and guileless in evil.

Today we remember Joachim and Anne, parents of The Blessed Virgin Mary

    For 

    God 

    alone 

    my 

    soul in 

    silence

    waits

                           Psalm 62:6    

                                

and we e pray  

that we all

 may be made 

one in the 

heavenly family 

of your Son  -Collect 

Evening Prayer of St James

                    

                                                 Matthew 10:16

See, 

I am sending you out like sheep into the midst of wolves: 

so be wise as serpents & innocent as doves.

St James the Apostle, brother of John, sons of Zebedee, among the small group to witness the Transfiguration of Jesus and the first of the Twelve to suffer martyrdom. By tradition his body was taken to Compostela, which remains a pilgrimage site to this day.

                                                          Psalm 34:8

  

  Taste 

  & see

   that the Lord is good; 

   happy are they who trust in him. 

                               Almond torte marked with the cross of St James 

At the very bottom of our diocesan shield there

 is a shell, symbol of St James, sinceRobert 

Woltersdorff , our first diocesan Bishop 

(1974) came from St James La Jolla. 

Pour upon 

the leaders of

 your Church 

that spirit of 

self--denying 

service by which a

lone they have true 

authority among  

your people  - Collect

A hot summer evening

                                              Psalm 24:1

The earth is the Lord’s and all 

that is in it; the world, 

and all who dwell therein.

Summer Sunday morning

                        Collect of the day

Increase and  multiply upon 

us 

your

mercy, 

that,

with you,

as our ruler and guide, 

we made so pass through things 

temporal that we lose not the things eternal

Saturday evening

                                                        Based on the 

                                                      Sunday Collect 

without you 

nothing 

is strong,  

nothing  

is holy

with-

out 

you

nothing is