Today in the Episcopal Church we commemorate Henry Budd, who served among the Cree in Western Canada. who died in 1875. An orphan, the date of this birth is unknown, he is the first person of First Nation ancestry to be ordained priest in the Anglican tradition.

                                                         Psalm 80:1b

         shine 

         forth, 

         you 

         who 

         are 

         en-

        throned 

        upon the cherubim.

 

Grant that 

his example 

may call us 

to reverence,

orderliness 

and love 

-Collect

Evening of the 21st

 O Dayspring

Bright-

ness of 

the Light 

eternal 

and Sun of Righteousness; Come and enlighten    

those who sit in darkness and 

the shadow of death.

St Thomas the Apostle

  Job 42:5

I have 

heard 

of you 

by the 

hearing 

of the ear 

but now 

my eye 

sees you. 

I am so grateful to St Thomas. He teaches me, then reminds me year after year, that most of my job is just  showing up, just being there, (especially when times are hard) whenever “there,”happens to be. In the family. At church. In them community. Which is sometimes absolutely as much as I can do - and more. And if I blow it one time, that's not my only chance. AA keeps it simple:  “Suit how up and  show up.”  

O Antiphon for tonight, Tu, Dec 20.

                                 O Key of David,     

 & Scepter of

the house of Israel, you 

open & no one can shut, you shut & no 

one can open: 

Come and 

bring the cap-tives out of the prison house, those who sit in 

darkness and the shadow of death.

The Tuesday before Christmas

                                                         Isaiah 11:16

There will be 

a high-way from Assyria for the remnant that is left 

of God's people, as there was for Israel 

as they came out from the land  of Egypt.

O Antiphon on the Magnificat for today, Dec 19th

                     The O Antiphon 

   

   

   O 

   Root

   of 

   Jesse, 

   you 

   stand 

   as an 

   ensign   

   to the   

   peoples, 

   before you kings 

   will shut their mouths, 

   and nations bow in worship;

   Come and deliver us and tarry not.  

Today we remember Lillian Trasher, 1887– 1961, missionary in Egypt, who dedicated her whole life to caring for orphaned children.

  Psalm 62: 1

My 

soul 

for 

God 

in 

silence 

waits 

The Lillian Trasher 

Orphanage, in Asyut 

Egypt, founded in 

the early 1900s 

by a young Amer-

ican woman known 

among Egyptians 

simply as “Mama 

Lillian," is still a 

going concern. 

"we pray that we also 

may find our hearts 

awakened  and our 

compassion stirred 

to care for your 

little ones" Collect  

    

                   

            Once has God spoken, 

           twice have I heard it, 

        that power belongs to God. 

                    v.13