Monday Evening

                                          A Collect at  

                                    Evening Prayer

 Give 

 to 

 us 

 that 

 peace   

 which the world cannot give

Today we meet Catherine Winkworth, London born poet and known to Episcopalians, unknowingly, as translator of hymns , 1827- 1878

                                                   Psalm  89:1, 2a

Your love,O Lord, 

for ever will I sing; from age to age 

my mouth shout proclaim 

your faithfulness. For I am persuad-

ed that your love is established forever

From the Poetry of translation  on the Wordpress website Words and Music.          Translating hymns is no small feat. This is what I’ve concluded after making a first attempt at translating German poetry.   Besides conveying the sense of the text, you have to put into metrical form, ideally preserving the meter and rhyme of the original, and do it in a way that sounds good. So I’ve really come to appreciate the work of Catherine Winkworth. he was a prolific translator of German chorales, including “Praise to the Lord, the Almighty” and “Now thank we all our God.” 

A quiet Sunday morning

                     Mark 4:39, 4o.Hymn 550

Jesus calls us; o’er the tumult of our live’s wild, restless sea, day by day his clear 

voice soundeth, saying, "Christian, 

follow me."

          "Peace! Be still!" 

         "Why are you afraid?" 

             I love that Jesus rebukes the wind, and commands the sea, but Asks a question...

Second Vespers of Transfiguration

                                                  Collect      

 may we by faith behold

The Feast of the Transfiguration

                             - Part of a prayer by 

                             Richard of Chichester 

     

    

     may 

     we 

     know 

     you 

     more 

     clearly,

     love you 

     more dearly, 

     and follow you 

     more nearly, day by day.

First Vespers of the Feast of the Transfiguration

                                         

                                 Collect of the Feast 

grant

that 

we, 

being 

delivered

from the

 disquietude 

  of this world, 

    may, by faith,

      behold the king in his beauty

Today the church pauses to remember three 16th century artists: Albrecht Dürer, 1528, Matthias Grunëwald, 1529 and Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1553

                                 Psalm 88:12

Will 

your won-ders 

be known 

in the dark? 

Or your righteousness 

in the land of destruction?