Eve of I Epiphany: The Baptism of Jesus

                  ________Antiphon of  the feast: on Psalm 104_ 

In the

beginning 

when God 

made the

heavens
and the 

earth, the 

Spirit of God moved over the face of the waters,

                                                                           hallelujah.

Saturday, January 11, 2020

                                       _____________Isaiah 55:3_

 




  Incline 

     your 

       ear 

        and

         come

            to me,

               listen, that you may live. 

                                                   “Incline your ear”

                                             sounded archaic, so 

                                      I  looked up another

                                 translation  & found 

                       “Open your ears” but I

                  decided that that I prefer-

             red the image  of inclining 

toward God, leaning in to hear. 

Friday night

  Colossians 2:20

If 

with 

Christ  

you 

have 

died… 

why 

do

you 

live 

as if

you still 

belonged 

to the world? 

Friday, January 10, 2020

                                          _____Psalm 138: 4 _

       When I 

            called, you

               answered me, 

                   you increased 

                       my strength within me.

Thursday evening

                            ________O Praise ye the Lord _ 

For 

love in 

creation,

for heaven 

restored, 

for grace    

of salvation, 

O, praise ye the Lord_____________

Thursday, January 9, 2020

                                               ___________Isaiah 45:18_

   thus says 

   the Lord, 

   who created 

   the heavens 

   (he is God!), 

   who formed 

   the earth &

   made it (he 

   established it, he did not create it 

   to be a chaos, he formed it to be 

   inhabited!) I am the Lord, 

   there is no other.  

the follow-on for Wednesday,,,,

                 _________________________John 7:38_

  Jesus 

doesn’t 

  call us 

  to be

passive 

 recip-

 ients 

 of the Holy Spirit. We are called to be

 living vessels, active agents of God’s will 

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