Workers in Port-au-Prince, Haiti run for cover Aug. 26 as Hurricane Gustav makes landfall.
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 [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Evening Prayer 8.31.08, Pentecost Proper 17, Katrina Remembrance Sunday
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Morning Prayer 8.31.08, Pentecost Proper 17, Katrina Remembrance Sunday
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New Orleans residents gather at an evacuation station before the arrival of Hurricane Gustav, almost three years to the day of Katrina’s disastrous landfall. (The New York Times)
Thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, “I dwell in the high and holy place and also with the one who [...]
Evening Prayer 8.30.08
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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, and to the Holy Spirit: *
as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. [...]
Morning Prayer 8.30.08
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Job and his “Comforters”
Begin with awareness that you are praying with others around the world; this is the Common Prayer of the Church.
Send out your light and your truth, that they may lead me, and bring me to your holy hill and to your dwelling. Psalm 43:3
INVITATORY AND PSALTER
Lord, open our lips.
And our mouth shall [...]
Evening Prayer 8.29.08 [Hurricanes Katrina & Gustav]
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Jesus over the waters: New Orleans, 2005
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 [...]
Morning Prayer 8.29.08
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Sen. Barack Obama accepts the Democratic nomination for president of the United States. His presumptive opponent, Sen. John McCain, issued a congratulatory video. (We do not endorse candidates and expect to publish a photo of McCain’s nomination next week. Photo: The New York Times.)
Holy Spirit, let me be aware of your presence and that of [...]
