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Like splendid palm branches, we are strewn in the Lord’s path.

~~Latin Antiphon
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Today's Daily Office Gospel:

bible.oremus.org?passage=Mark...
February 17, 2025 at 8:33 PM
January 29, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Yes, he did...
January 27, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Let us pray...
January 26, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Judges Cave, New Haven, CT. (Photo found online and antique postcard). In the West Rock State Park.

"Opposition to tyrants is obedience to God."

We may find ourselves required to demonstrate obedient to God soon enough.
January 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Women's March. State Capitol. Hartford, CT. January 2017.

Remember. Resist.

"Resistance is the secret of joy." Alice Walker.
January 23, 2025 at 2:11 AM
January 22, 2025 at 9:55 PM
#AdventWord #fruit #advent2024

25 December 2024

No good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit;for each tree is known by its own fruit.
~~Luke 6:43-44a
December 25, 2024 at 1:25 PM
#AdventWord #come #advent2024

24 December 2024

The Spirit and the bride say, ‘Come.’
And let everyone who hears say, ‘Come.’
And let everyone who is thirsty come.
Let anyone who wishes take the water of life as a gift.

~~Revelation 22:17
December 24, 2024 at 1:15 PM
#AdventWord #mercy #advent2024

21 December 2024

Have mercy on me, O God,
according to your steadfast love;
according to your abundant mercy
blot out my transgressions.

~~Psalm 51:1
December 21, 2024 at 1:54 PM
#AdventWord #love #advent2024
20 December 2024
Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love.
1 John 4:7-8
December 20, 2024 at 1:32 PM
#AdventWord #home #advent2024

19 December 2024

May those who sow in tears reap with shouts of joy.
Those who go out weeping, bearing the seed for sowing, shall come home with shouts of joy, carrying their sheaves.

~~Psalm 126:5-6
December 19, 2024 at 8:33 PM
Have yourself a merry little Christmas...
December 18, 2024 at 10:17 PM
#AdventWord #gather #advent2024

The Lord builds up Jerusalem; he gathers the outcasts of Israel.
He heals the brokenhearted, and binds up their wounds.

~~Psalm 147:2-3
December 18, 2024 at 12:46 PM
#AdventWord #trust #advent2024

Trust

And those who know your name put their trust in you, for you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you.

~~Psalm 9:10
December 17, 2024 at 1:41 PM
#AdventWord #gentleness #advent2024

Who is wise and understanding among you? Show by your good life that your works are done with gentleness born of wisdom.

~~James 3:13
December 16, 2024 at 1:43 PM
#AdventWord #rejoice #advent2024

15 December 2024

But I trusted in your steadfast love; my heart shall rejoice in your salvation.

~~Psalm 13:5
December 15, 2024 at 11:21 AM
Advent Three. Gaudete Sunday. All my Anglo-catholic friends be like:
December 14, 2024 at 10:01 PM
#AdventWord #proclaim #advent2024

14 December 2024

So he came to proclaim peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near; for through him both of us have access in one Spirit to the Father.

~~Ephesians 2:17-18
December 14, 2024 at 1:21 PM
#AdventWord #salvation #advent2024

I wait for your salvation, O Lord.
~~Genesis 49:18
December 13, 2024 at 1:13 PM
#AdventWord #righteousness #advent2024

Steadfast love and faithfulness will meet;
righteousness and peace will kiss each other.
Faithfulness will spring up from the ground,
and righteousness will look down from the sky.

~~Psalm 85:10-11
December 12, 2024 at 1:32 PM
#AdventWord #prepare #advent2024

11 December 2024

See, I am sending my messenger to prepare the way before me, and the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple. The messenger of the covenant in whom you delight—indeed, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts.

~~Malachi 3.1
December 11, 2024 at 3:01 PM
#AdventWord #joy #advent2024

10 December 2024

For you shall go out in joy,
and be led back in peace;
the mountains and the hills before you
shall burst into song,
and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

~~Isaiah 55:12
December 10, 2024 at 1:10 PM
#AdventWord #refine #advent2024

And I will put this third into the fire, refine them as one refines silver, and test them as gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will answer them. I will say, “They are my people”; and they will say, “The Lord is our God.”

~~Zechariah 13.9
December 9, 2024 at 12:59 PM
#AdventWord #splendor #advent2024 8 December 2024

Ascribe to the Lord the glory of his name; worship the Lord in holy splendor.

~~Psalm 29:2
December 8, 2024 at 11:23 AM