More on yesterday’s return from Iraq of 140 members of an Indiana National Guard med-evac unit: Sgt. Matt Schwark holds his son Nate, 21 months, for the first time in a year.
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Lifesavers back home: 140 members of the Indiana National Guard returned yesterday to a hero’s welcome and the love of family and friends. This unit flew 4000 hours of med-evac missions into the heart of Iraq’s danger zones. Above, Staff Sgt. Steve Williams. (The Indianapolis Star)
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St. Catherine of Siena, dictating the Dialogue to a monk while in a state of religious ecstasy.
Begin with awareness that you are praying with others around the world; this is the Common Prayer of the Church.
Thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 15:57
INVITATORY & PSALTER
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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, c. 1746: Catherine of Siena
Holy Spirit, let me be aware of your presence and that of countless others, as together we pray your Divine Office in love.
If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Colossians 3:1
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Sen. Barack Obama made a surprise visit to St. Luke’s United Methodist Church in Indianapolis yesterday. Sen. Hillary Clinton is expected to return to the state tomorrow. (Danese Kenon/The Indianapolis Star)
Holy Spirit, let me be aware of your presence and that of countless others as together we pray your Divine Office in love.
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By a circuitous route (Episcopal Café, Trinity Church Wall Street, Desmond Tutu), we have learned about the Rt. Rev. Trevor Huddleston, South Africa’s best white friend. Maybe he serves as a counterpoint to the seemingly pro-slavery (but also proscriptive) Leviticus passage below.
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Rembrandt: The Rich Fool (click to enlarge)
On this day the Lord has acted; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalm 118:24
INVITATORY & PSALTER
O God, make speed to save us.
O Lord, make haste to help us.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit,
as it was in the beginning, is [...]
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The Year of Jubilee.
Alleluia! Christ is risen.
The Lord is risen indeed. Alleluia!
INVITATORY & PSALTER
Lord, open our lips,
And our mouth shall proclaim your praise.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit:
as it was in the beginning, is now and will be forever. Amen.
Alleluia. The Lord is risen indeed: Come let us [...]
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Bible in the foreground as the Old Catholic diocese of Haarlem prepared to vote on its 18th bishop. (Who are those ladies in the front? Click the pic.)
Begin with awareness that you are praying with others around the world; this is the Common Prayer of the Church.
Alleluia! Christ is risen.
The Lord is risen indeed. Alleluia!
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From the Old Catholic diocese of Haarlem, Holland.
Begin with awareness that you are praying with others around the world; this is the Common Prayer of the Church.
Christ has entered, not into a sanctuary made with hands, a copy of the true one, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on [...]
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