If I have told you about earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you about heavenly things?

#John3 #dailyoffice #HolyCrossDay Photo from #HolyCrossMonastery #tec

O Lord, who in a time of turmoil and confusion raised up your servant William White to lead your church into ways of stability and peace; Hear our prayer, and give us wise and faithful leaders, that, through their ministry, your people may be blessed and your will be done—Amen

#WilliamWhite, 1836 🕯️

“You need light to travel / a dark path, and you need to travel light.” - Luci Shaw

Read this today & struck by the resonance with #Luke10 in tomorrow’s #lectionary

take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt; put them into one vessel and make bread

#Ezekiel4 #dailyoffice #bread
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Like the bow in a cloud on a rainy day, such was the appearance of the splendor all around. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord.

#Ezekiel1 #dailyoffice

Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today & tomorrow thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you?

#Luke13 #dailyoffice

My spring book stack! Poetry, theology & a novel from a friend. Have you read any of these?

A Few Gears
#Lent #poem
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I love Mechthild, but had to vote for Ninian since I visited his cave with my dad in 1998! Who will you vote for in #LentMadness?

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Books for today’s sermon #called #vocation #prophets #disciples #epiphany5c

Opening prayer in The Vanishing Song by Jay Holme #compline @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social

Spontaneous tears reading this. #ERAnow

At a meeting last night, everyone shared something that had pleasantly surprised them recently. Last Friday, I got back a scarf my mom gave me from the lost & found at NYC ballet theater in Lincoln Center, where I saw the Nutcracker in December!

What has pleasantly surprised you recently?

Ahead of them went the star that they had seen at its rising, until it stopped over the place where the child was. When they saw that the star had stopped, they were overwhelmed with joy. On entering the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother, and they knelt down

#Matthew2 #epiphany

Thomas answered him, "My Lord and my God!" Jesus said to him, "Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have come to believe."

#John20 #StThomas #morningprayer

Prayer for the Day from A Surprising God: Advent Devotions for an Uncertain Time by Thomas Long & Donyelle McCray #Advent #morningprayer

Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness, and put on the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life in which your Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility —

#Advent1 #collect #morningprayer on last day of 1st week. Tree is up. Decorating bit by bit.

They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

#Isaiah2 #dailyoffice

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I have it on a light switch!