A long-time favorite. Might be the one book I've read more than twice.

Then the ACW President said, “I pay thee, therefore, Father, that thou wouldest have Lazarus say something after church on Sunday about the Fall Sale — for we have a lot of parishioners—that he may testify unto them, that they may also come into this place of torment and support our Fall Sale.” ⚓

“Have patience with me, Lord; yet I have not wherewith to pay, I confess to Thee; forgive me the whole debt, I beseech Thee.” - Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester(1555-1626), oversaw translation of the King James Version Bible #KJV 🕯️

Pulling dried thyme from its stems to store for future use takes a lot of patience. I have almost enough! 🤣

Who's the Patron Saint of Minnesota?

So when you're praying, or giving alms, or fasting, hide it all so as to keep your pride in check, but otherwise preach the gospel loud and clear. I get it. I do. ❤️🕯

Favorite day of the week? (Apart from Sunday) Wednesday - because that's my day for lectio and because I neither have to eat nor cook supper. Favorite time of the day? Early a.m. after M.P. while having my tea and reading some short miscellaneous religious thing. 😊🕯

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This.

A milkweed pod has opened.

Don't tell me that grocery prices haven't gone up because they definitely have. Shopping day.

Today is the actual equinox. Now, if only it could actually be autumn.

🎵 While we seek mirth and beauty, and music light and gay, There are frail forms fainting at the door. 🎵

Been reading North of Boston, and Frost has a keen ear for how people sound when they talk to each other. The Black Cottage is my most recent shocker.

I am 100% on this. Eg. This week's collect. Also, look at something broken and learn from it and love it as you dispose of it.

Book I'm reading is set in early 1800's, and guess what. Their mail is actually letters. They call their mail "letters" not mail because that's what they get. Letters. Each day. I'm writing two letters tomorrow and Friday, so...

Looked through my following list. Fascinating. Most are active. Glad to know you.

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More yard work! This is a two-Diet-Cherry-Coke day.

The worst part about buying groceries now is explaining to your kids why they're not getting anything for Christmas.

Avoiding war: this morning's 2 Kings 6. Just FYI. 🕯😊

Making 5 or 6 meatloafs today - for winter.

Can anyone recommend a specifically Episcopalian blog article (or similar) about blessing objects? I'm thinking around the subject at the moment. ⚓

Yes. Yes. No. No. 🕯

I'm editing someone's Turabian footnotes, and this must be what soon-to-be-obsolete medieval scribes felt like copying manuscripts while the printing press in the town next to the monastery was cranking out pamphlets

This morning's 2 Kings and 1 Corinthians readings go really well together. 🕯 A. Here's some leprosy for you, jerk! B. Let Satan deal with him, and maybe then his soul can be saved. Sin is serious stuff.😒

Our online bible study of the book of Daniel continues. We will meet again tomorrow -- Tuesday, September 23 -- for a look at chapter 2. We'll gather on zoom at 7pm eastern. We'll use the same zoom link as before. Please email the church office ([email protected]) if you need it.

@paul.urbanmonastic.org Success! open.spotify.com/track/4Pbh89...

(My) thoughts and prayers for the Lobelia I transplanted today. They deserve a good life after volunteering in my yard this summer and blooming mightily.

@eriknyssen.bsky.social Hi, Erik, Eager for Sunday! You're on Chicago Ave, right? 10:45 is the time. See you then. ❤️

Dear Rapture, I'm getting a flu shot tomorrow, 10 a.m. Please reschedule.

These two currently living on monastery grounds. 🕯

Apple Inc. is always proving Augustine's dictum that it's possible to know the Good and yet still will to do evil.

Feast Day transferred. 🕯

Deep admiration for people who never post a typo. 🤔

🕯 Considering the many meanings of emptiness, being sent empty away is the worst thing that can happen to you,

Just 2 gun rights advocates sitting behind a wall of bulletproof glass while enjoying a memorial for a gun rights advocate who got murdered by a gun.

I never tire of John the Baptist's mouth in tonight's Luke. "You brood of vipers." Tell 'em, bro. ❤️🕯

Sabbath Intentional Sabbath. Worth finding a way.

Happy Day of the Lord. 🕯 Not sure why I'm so focused on the sky lately.

⚓RIP Veronica Mary Rolf - Julian scholar and author One of our monks went on her website to download some materials, and got a message from her daughter saying she had died last week. Her works have helped many, and she will be missed. - Br. Abraham (St. Gregory's Abbey)

Got some really good news yesterday evening and some minor good (sports-related) news just now, so I should cheer up.

Feel as if translators would’ve given a better sense of “dishonest wealth” by maintaining a straightforward translation: “by the mammon of injustice” - ek tou mamwna ths adikias

We're back to all three readings today! Hallelujah! 🕯🙏

Cleaning up after my husband's roast chicken dinner, and I'm sorry, I just do not understand the purpose of meat.

Can you imagine any normal person hearing Jesus in Matthew 5 and not going insane? The beatitudes, the salt, and every tiny bit of the law!! Fortunately, we've watered this down over the millenia, but it still hits a person. 🕯

If something is going to substitute for religion, it should be sports - not politics, not cooking, not literature.

Today's clouds.