Morning Prayer for Advent 2 Repent ye; for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. -Matthew 3. 2 Advent Prose (Rorate caeli / Drop down, ye heavens) (https://youtu.be/A2aKSpxFymQ) Psalms: 96, 97 1st Lesson: Isaiah 5. 1-16 2nd Lesson: Matthew 24. 29-end Hymn: O come, O come Immanuel (https://youtu.be/jjn3fBTvBjY) Advent Collect: (from Advent 1) Collect of … Continue reading Morning Prayer for the Second Sunday in Advent, the Feast of St. Nicholas, and the Thirty-Ninth Sunday in COVIDtide
St Barbara’s Day
Wishing all artillery folk, engineers, and all those who handle explosives a happy St Barbara’s Day! Almighty God, we pray this day in honour of thy servant Barbara, protect all gunners, engineers, miners, and those who have been entrusted to handle the power of explosives, protect them during handling, may their calculations be accurate and … Continue reading St Barbara’s Day
Solemn Morning Prayer for the First Sunday in Advent and the Thirty-Eight Sunday in COVIDtide
Morning Prayer for the First Sunday in Advent Happy New (Liturgical) Year! 🎉 (Remember it is now Year I of the BCP Lectionary) Repent ye; for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. -Matthew 3. 2 Advent Prose (Rorate caeli / Drop down, ye heavens) (https://youtu.be/A2aKSpxFymQ) Psalm: 9 (Sung by the Choir of York Minster) … Continue reading Solemn Morning Prayer for the First Sunday in Advent and the Thirty-Eight Sunday in COVIDtide
Happy New Year’s Eve! 🍾🥂
Today is the last Saturday before Advent, and this the last day of the liturgical year. I wish all happy New liturgical year and a blessed and holy Advent season and prayers for an end to COVIDtide. Bubbly and the Advent Wreath
Morning Prayer for the Sunday Next Before Advent and the Thirty-Seventh Sunday in COVIDtide
Morning Prayer for the Sunday Next Before Advent Today is the last Sunday of the (liturgical) year. Next Sunday will be Advent, a season of preparation for the arrival of the Christ child (Christmas). It marks the end of a difficult year for many and hope towards a new future. Everyone prepares for Christmas differently, … Continue reading Morning Prayer for the Sunday Next Before Advent and the Thirty-Seventh Sunday in COVIDtide
The Minor Feast of Saint Margaret, Queen of Scotland
Today is the minor feast day of Saint Margaret, Queen of Scotland, 1093 Margaret of Wessex was an English princess and a Scottish Queen, often called “The Pearl of Scotland.” A pious Christian, she cared for the poor and founded several abbeys in Scotland. She was buried in Dumferline Abbey, one for the abbeys she … Continue reading The Minor Feast of Saint Margaret, Queen of Scotland
Morning Prayer for the Twenty-Third Sunday After Trinity and the Thirty-Sixth Sunday in COVIDtide
Morning Prayer for Trinity 23 God is love; and he that abideth in love abideth in God, and God in him. Psalm: 137, 138 1st Lesson: Ecclus 18. 1-13 2nd Lesson: Luke 14. 15-end (As the lessons start going into the Apocrypha, it is a reminder that the liturgical year is coming to an end, … Continue reading Morning Prayer for the Twenty-Third Sunday After Trinity and the Thirty-Sixth Sunday in COVIDtide
Holy Eucharist for Remembrance Sunday, being also the Twenty-Second Sunday After Trinity, the Octave Day of All Saints, and the Thirty-Fifth Sunday in COVIDtide
Remembrance Sunday at the CathedralChurch of All Saints, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada They shall grow not old as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, We will remember them. On this Remembrance Sunday, I attended the … Continue reading Holy Eucharist for Remembrance Sunday, being also the Twenty-Second Sunday After Trinity, the Octave Day of All Saints, and the Thirty-Fifth Sunday in COVIDtide
Evensong for All Souls’ Day or the Commemoration of the Faithfully Departed
All Souls‘ Day (Office Setting: Evening Service in G Major, C.V. Stanford) Psalm: 130 (Sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey) 1st Lesson: Isaiah 38. 10-20 2nd Lesson: John 5. 24-29 Hymn: Christ, enthroned in highest heaven (French Church Melody, c. 16th cent) (https://youtu.be/WqE6SKiPrpo) Collect during the Octave of All Saints: O Almighty God, who … Continue reading Evensong for All Souls’ Day or the Commemoration of the Faithfully Departed
Solemn Morning Prayer for the Feast of All Saints (or All Hallows’) and the Thirty-Fourth Sunday in COVIDtide
Morning Prayer for All Saints’ Day Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race which is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher … Continue reading Solemn Morning Prayer for the Feast of All Saints (or All Hallows’) and the Thirty-Fourth Sunday in COVIDtide
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