Here’s something we’ve never seen before: a promising young baseball player giving up possible millions to become, God willing, a Roman Catholic priest. Grant Desme of the Oakland Athletics was the only “30-30″ man in the minor leagues last year, with 31 home runs connoting power and 41 stolen bases, showing speed. The MVP of [...]
Archive for January, 2010
Evening Prayer 1.31.10, 4th Sunday after the Epiphany
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Morning Prayer 1.31.10, 4th Sunday after the Epiphany
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From the rising of the sun to its setting my Name shall be great among the nations, and in every place incense shall be offered to my Name, and a pure offering; for my Name shall be great among the nations, says the Lord of hosts. Malachi 1:11 INVITATORY & PSALTER Lord, open our lips, [...]
Evening Prayer 1.30.10
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Bishop Dabney Smith of Southwest Florida dedicates the altar at New Beginnings Park, Port Charlotte, two years ago this month. In 2003 Hurricane Charley devastated the county and ripped out a wooded area between the Episcopal and Methodist churches; suddenly “they could see each other.” The congregations got together and built a new park, with [...]
Morning Prayer 1.30.10
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Dabney T. Smith, the Bishop of Southwest Florida, with Fr. Bob Wagenseil and parishioners at Calvary Church, Indian Rocks Beach, after confirmation last May. The parish offers Morning Prayer Tuesday through Friday, and its website now links to our main site too, for those who can’t be present. Please ask God to bless their vestry [...]
Evening Prayer 1.29.10, Andrei Rublev, Monk & Iconographer, 1430
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Rublev’s most treasured icon is Angels at Mamre, c. 1410. The incident, from Genesis 18:1-8 (which we’ll read tomorrow morning), concerns Abraham and Sarah’s hospitality to the messengers; by eliminating the figures of the two great mortals, Rublev turned the image into a meditation on the Holy Trinity. I will give you as a light [...]
Morning Prayer 1.29.10, Andrei Rublev, Monk & Iconographer, 1430
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Nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising. Isaiah 60:3 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. [...]
