*loosely* the 1979 Office lectionary skipping over 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 today

I can’t help but notice how evident the lines between the maximalist social left and the reformist social left these last days have been

O God, the Father of all, whose Son commanded us to love our enemies: Lead them and us from prejudice to truth: deliver them and us from hatred, cruelty, and revenge; and in your good time enable us all to stand reconciled before you, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

You know, it’s too bad the ‘79 Office Lectionary doesn’t include James ch. 1 during Proper 17, during which we ask the “the author and giver of all good things” to “increase in us true religion.”

Dear friends, I am going on a couple self retreats - first tomorrow then again in September. I’d appreciate your prayers and any advice you’d have for me.

I don’t know how anyone can read without a pencil.

"The doctrine of the creeds, the enacted faith of the sacraments, were the essential preconditions of the experience itself. The faith with which I went to Selma has not changed: it has grown.. I began to know in my bones and sinews that I had been truly baptized into the Lord's

My letter to the Presiding Bishop. Let me know any thoughts if you have the chance. open.substack.com/pub/lukeamaz...

Sitting in the tension of the Office Gospel reading of Jesus’ spiritual authority above the elements of creation: physical lack, over the weather, and sickness—alongside Psalm 72 “He shall live as long as the sun and moon endure.” Is the endurance of the moon or sun a poetic symbol of eternity or

Let nothing disturb you, 
Let nothing frighten you, 
All things are passing away: 
God never changes. 
Patience obtains all things
Whoever has God lacks nothing; 
God alone suffices.   -- St. Teresa of Avila

Here’s a piece I wrote on finding faith & spirituality after deconstruction. Big thank you to @earthandaltarmag.com for my first online publication. Thank you, @anachronistben.bsky.social, for the opportunity and your insightful editing. earthandaltarmag.com/posts/v29jyh...

Tasted God’s everlasting grace this morning at church. Thanks be to God! Happy Sunday!

Since the Lord thus has redeemed us through His own blood, giving His soul for our souls, and His flesh for our flesh, and has also poured out the Spirit of the Father for the union and communion of God and man, imparting indeed God to men by means of the Spirit, and, on the

#MorningPrayer on Long Beach Island, NJ Glorify the Lord, O mountains and hills, and all that grows upon the earth, praise him and highly exalt him for ever. … All birds of the air, glorify the Lord, * praise him and highly exalt him for ever.

A worthwhile read by Matthew Vines “We desperately need to recover our ability to make real progress again. But getting there will require… [a] return to the appeal to common humanity that once made it so successful. …it would indeed be something to be proud of.” substack.com/home/post/p-...

I miss her #RachelHeldEvans

Sometimes I have a hard time bridging my gay Episcopal niche with my career in performing arts but thanks to theology nerd assistant stage managers, I have the encouragement I need for my posh British hotel manager scene 🤣

Almighty God, who has revealed to your church your eternal Being of glorious majesty and perfect love as one God in Trinity of Persons: Give us grace that, like your bishop Basil of Caesarea, we may continue steadfastly in the confession of this faith and remain constant

Almighty and everliving God, who through the Book of Common Prayer restored the language of the people in the prayers of your church: Make us always thankful for this heritage; and help us so to pray in the Spirit and with understanding, that we may worthily magnify your

"When she has discovered the advantage of this unitive love in Me, by means of which, she truly loves herself, extending her desire for the salvation of the whole world, thus coming to the aid of its neediness, she strives, inasmuch as she has done good to herself by the

Grant, O God, that we may follow the example of your faithful servant Barnabas, who, seeking not his own renown but the well-being of your Church, gave generously of his life and substance for the relief of the poor and the spread of the Gospel; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives

“like living stones, let yourselves be built into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.” 1 Peter 2:5 NRSV Happy Pentecost!

Come Holy Spirit, come like a fire and burn. Come like a wind and cleanse. Convict, convert, and consecrate our hearts to our great good and to your great glory. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. --Fleming Rutledge (The Pentecost Window, Messiah, St. Paul) ⚓

"…a man proves his patience on his neighbor, when he receives injuries from him. "Similarly, he proves his humility on a proud man, his faith on an infidel, his true hope on one who despairs, his justice on the unjust, his kindness on the cruel, his gentleness and benignity on the irascible.”

Reading Catherine of Siena’s Dialogue at the right time 😭 in the best most humbling way

I love how the easiest access I’ve had to an Episcopal church while on Long Beach Island is the community space where my theatre’s currently rehearsing.

My sister got me a Kindle for Christmas and it has been the best gift - I can find LFF, EOW, writings of church fathers or medieval saints all online and upload them to my Kindle. Liturgy and ancient Christianity on my e-reader in minutes!

"And it cannot be otherwise, because love of Me and of her neighbor are one and the same thing, and, so far as the soul loves Me, she loves her neighbor, because love towards him issues from Me.” -Catherine of Siena Dialogue

O God, who has given your church wisdom and revealed to it deep and secret things: Grant that we, like your servant Justin and in union with his prayers, may find your Word an abiding refuge all the days of our lives; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns,

For indeed the very best order of beginning every speech and action, is to begin from God, and to end in God. -St. Gregory of Nazianzus Oration 2

“How beautiful it is that the second human being was taken from the side of the first, so that nature might teach that human beings are equal and, as it were, collateral, and that there is in human affairs neither a superior nor an inferior, a characteristic of true friendship.” -Aelred of Riveaulx

Grateful my birthday is on the feast day of an Archbishop of Canterbury and a “contemplative in action.”

“…for she considered that a soul could not be of use, whether in doctrine, example, or prayer, to her neighbor, if she did not first profit herself, that is, if she did not acquire virtue in herself…” Catherine of Siena Dialogue

“For he that loves iniquity” does not love but “hates is own soul.” Truly, he who does not love his own soul will not be able to love the soul of another. Aelred of Rievaulx

Moreover, even though the strict logic of her theory might have required it, the hierarchical Church was not considered as the sole manifestation of the Divine Will to Christendom [in the medieval period]. The unanimity with which the Christian idea was accepted in those times made the saint a

We do not worship a creature. Far be the thought. For such an error belongs to heathens and Arians. But we worship the Lord of Creation, Incarnate, the Word of God. Athanasius

Decided to praise God with the EOW canticles for Morning Prayer today and was delighted to discover I prayed Anselm of Canterbury's Goodness of Christ canticle on his feast day.

Wow. I normally don’t pray Morning Prayer on Sunday mornings but I am once again amazed at the ‘79 lectionary and how they interact with today’s Liturgy of the Word. In particular, the Psalms and Deuteronomy 8 with the Gospel.

We Episcopalians lost so much when we gave this up. I grew up with it from early childhood, being in a Morning Prayer parish. It comforts me still, just as it was with the "offensive" phrases still in place.

@frutledge.bsky.social “Walking on the fault line between evangelical and progressive.” Love it

I am struck by two Office readings this week: •Discipline is for our very good “And the LORD commanded us to observe all these statues to fear the LORD our God, for our good always…” Deuteronomy 6:24 •Discipline strengthens us and is for our safety and healing “Therefore strengthen the hands

It’s been in my heart all day. 🙂🫶🏼

Everyone should be @blueberrymill.bsky.social’s friend!! Such a great day!

My soul doth magnify the Lord

I swear I hear the word “dignity” used a lot more in discourse in the media since Bishop Budde’s sermon. 1979 BCP baptismal vows for the win!

If you’re not “in the headspace” to love your enemies, join the club. That’s why we need the Forerunner to help us

I wonder if the reaction folks who are colorblind have when they put on EnChroma glasses are glimpse of what it will be like to experience the kingdom of heaven for the first time.