March 4, 2018, the Fourth Sunday in Lent

                                        ___________________Collect

          Al-

          mighty 

          God, 

          you 

          know 

          we 

          have 

          no 

          power 

          in 

          our-

          selves 

          to help 

          our-

          selves;

          keep us 

          both 

          out-

          wardly 

          in our 

          bodies 

          in and 

          inwardly in our souls… 

This 

is 

the 

AA 

“Third Step prayer” 

which is a lovely prayer of self-oblation. 

Saurday night

                   ___________________Psalm 27:11 

 You 

 speak 

 in 

 my 

 heart 

 & say   "Seek my face.”

          Your face, Lord, will I seek. 

Saturday, March 3, 2018*.

                                      Antiphon on Psalm 75 

                

              God 

              does 

              not 

              judge 

              by 

              what 

              the 

              eyes 

              see, 

              but

              in 

              truth 

              and equity.

                *The Wesleys Brothers

      John (1703-1791) and Charles (1703-1791) 

English Anglican priests who both 
experienced inner conversions 

which led them to become founders

 and leaders of the “Methodist”or

evangelical revival in the church, 

akin to Cursillo in our own day. The
 outer forms of religion are not enough. 

The Methodist Church became a 

separate entity only after the brother’s deaths. (Humans are such a fractious lot!)  My husband Gordon grew up a Methodist & was taught ‘the Method.”  Charles wrote a TON of hymns that Margaret England always says are not only singable but are complete sermons in themselves. ( Hark, the herald angels sing, Love divine, all loves excelling, Rejoice, the Lord is King, O for a thousand tongues to sing, Jesus, 

lover of my soul, Lo! he comes with clouds descending)

In Morning Prayer,

we continue reading the story of Joseph who was sold into slavery in  Egypt. His brothers have come down to Egypt for the second time to buy food and have been brought to Jospeh’s house, though still unaware that it’s Joseph they are dealing with. Lunch is served, and each group is served separately since eating together would be an   “abomination to the Egyptians!  (Genesis 43:32) Wait ,wait! As readers of the New Testament, we are used to seeing the world    with Jewish eyes. But here, the tables are turned and it is the Jews who are the unclean OTHER! It made me laugh but aso stop and think.

Kindle in your Church, we [pray] such fervor, that those whose faith has cooled may be war-med,  and those who have not known Christ may turn to him and be saved - Collect

Saturday evening

                           ______________ Psalm 73:24

 You 

 will 

 guide 

 me 

 with 

 your 

 counsel, 

 and afterward 

 receive me with glory. 

Friday!! March 2, 2018*

 ______________________________Mark 4:37, 39

A great windstorm arose and

 the waves beat on the boat so that it was already 
being swamp-ed. But Je-sus was in the stern, asleep on the cushion;  and they woke him & said to him “Teacher, do you not care that we’r going to die?” He woke up and order-ed the wind to stop & said the sea “Peace, be still!” And the wind stopped and there was 
a dead calm. 

Chad, 672  Bishop of Lichfield was trained by Aidan of Lindes-farne in the Celtic tradition. Consecrat-ed Bishop of York in that tradition, when Theodore became to be Bishop  of Canter-bury, he supported Roman tradition & thus felt the ordina-tion was irregular. Chad offered to re-sign but instead Theodore reordained him in the Roman tradition. 

                      Keep us, 

                      we pray, 

                      from thinking  

                      of ourselves 

                      more highly 

                      than we 

                     ought to think, 

                    and ready at all 

                    times to step aside for 

                   others,  that the cause of 

                   Christ may be advanced  - Collect 

Thursday moving toward evening

                           __________An evening antiphon on Psalm 74    

Yours 

is the 

day,O 

Lord, 

yours 

also

the 

night;  you created the sun and the moon. 

Thursday, The first day of March, 2018*

           ___________________________Mark 4: 24 

the meas-ure

you give

will 

be 

the measure you get, and

still more will be given to you.  

David c 544 

Bishop of Minerva  

in Wales, the last Christian stronghold 

in Britain in the 5th century with the “overwhelming victory of the pagan Angles, Saxons and Jutes.” 

patron of st David’s
San Diego, AND Okla-homa City wehre our frirnd Tracey Carroll is the priest.