Wednesday early evening

                                   ________Antiphon: Psalm 49

     

               

             

               Lay 

               up 

               for 

                  yourselves 

                       treasures in heaven, 

                                   says the Lord. *

Wednesday, June 6, 2018*

                                       ________________Psalm 119:63

I am a companion 

of all who stand 

in awe of you, and

of those who keep your statutes. 

* Ini Kopuria, d. 1945 

of the Solomon Islands,   

founded the Company 

of Brothers, known as 

the Melanesia Brotherhood, 

an Anglican order. in 1925.

                       

                           Open our eyes 

that we, with these Anglican brothers, may es-

tablish peace and hope in service to others 

for the sake of Jesus Christ   - Collect

Novices of the Melanesian Brotherhood

 sing 'Jisas Yu Holem Hand Blong Mi'      

                            https://youtu.be/88yLavVfk9c via @YouTube

Tuesday heading into evening

                ________________Collect against perils 

  Be 

  our 

  light 

  in the

  darkness, O Lord… 

Tuesday, June 5, 2018*

                  ____________________Psalm 45:7

    

 

Your 

throne, 

O God, 

endures 

for ever 

and ever; 

a scepter of

righteousness 

is the scepter of your kingdom; 

you love righteousness and hate iniquity.

   

   * Boniface, 

     Archbishop 

     of Mainz, 

     Missionary

     to Germany 

     and Fresia.  

     Born 675, 

     martyred 745.

Pour out your Holy Spirit on your Church in every land, that by the service and sacrifice of man, your holy Name may be gloried and 

your kingdom enlarged   

- Collect 

________*_______

The whole concept of royalty is froreign to the American heart and spirit  so we don’t intuitively know kingly stuff and we shy away from it unless “a royal” is getting married or giving birth. Then we go all gaga. When Psalm 45 is the psalm, I routinely grouse,"COME ON LORD! REALLY? " and sometimes I just refuse to read it. God just chuckles and suggests gently that I am opinionated.  Today I knuckled down and read it and got the verse I got. ( This kind of reading, which is called Lectio Divina, it is not just reading to whiz through it - it’s reading until something speaks to your  your heart)  But this time I went ona nd finished reading Morning Prayer anyway... Maybe I’d get something better!  But I sure didn’t! And the verse turned out to be prefect.   SO, the very thing that symbolizes God’s authority is justice or fairness. Oh. 

                                And I knowthat Jesus has an orb and not a scepter but  since it’s a symbol and Christ really has neither, it works...  

Monday evening

              ____________________Galatians 1:3

  


   
  
  Grace 

        to 

     you 

     and 

  peace 

   from 

    God the Father 
     and our Lord Jesus Christ 

Monday, June 4, 2018*

                                     ________Matthew 13:52

every scribe 

who has been  

trained for 

the kingdom 

of heaven is

like the master 

of the household 

who brings out 

        of his treasure 

              what is new and what is old

*John XXIII 

   1881-1963  

Pope from 1958 

until his death in 

1963 who, in cal-

ling the Second 

Vatican Council, 

"changed the land-

scape of 20th c.

Christianity." 

 Grant that, following his  example, we may reach out …

and labor throughout the nations of the world to kindle a desire for justice and peace. - Collect

Sunday evening, June 3, 2018

                                  _____________________________Acts 8:26,27

         
                 …an 

     angel  

    of the

Lord said

to Philip, 

  “Get up 

    and go 

   toward 

   the south, to the road that goes down from 

          Jerusalem to Gaza. (This is  a wilderness 

                               road.)  So he got up and went.