Posted in Daily Office, tagged Christianity, Jesus, prayer on June 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Michelangelo: St. Peter’s Basilica, Rome. (Click to enlarge)
Holy Spirit, let me be aware of your presence and that of countless others, as together we pray your Divine Office in love.
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Philippians 1:2
INVITATORY & PSALTER
Lord, open our lips,
And our mouth shall proclaim your [...]
Posted in Daily Office on June 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
St. Barnabas Church, Scottsdale, AZ at dusk
If I say, “Surely the darkness will cover me, and the light around me turn to night,” darkness is not dark to you, O Lord; the night is as bright as the day; darkness and light to you are both alike. Psalm 139:10-11
INVITATORY & PSALTER
O God, make speed to [...]
Posted in Daily Office, tagged Christianity, Jesus, prayer on June 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today begins the 40th annual convention of the Union of Black Episcopalians in Philadelphia. Journalist Juan Williams is the keynoter, and participants will visit historic St. Thomas African Episcopal Church, founded by the first Black American priest, Fr. Absalom Jones. We pray with you, UBE!
Thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose [...]
Posted in Daily Office, tagged Christianity, Jesus, prayer on June 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
19th century Church of St. Irenaeus in Lyons, France, where he was bishop in the late 2nd century.
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Philippians 1:2
INVITATORY AND PSALTER
O God, make speed to save us.
O Lord, make haste to help us.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, [...]
Posted in Daily Office on June 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Did you ever wonder, over 2000 years of Christianity, whether preachers today speak anything like the truths of Jesus over all those centuries and translations and distortions of long ago? We can’t vouch for any individual, but St. Irenaeus has some answers; he learned from St. Polycarp, who learned from St. John the Evangelist, whom [...]
Posted in Daily Office on June 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Begin with awareness that you are praying with others around the world; this is the Common Prayer of the Church.
I will bless the Lord who gives me counsel; my heart teaches me, night after night. I have set the Lord always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not fall. Psalm [...]
