What I have needed the past couple of weeks is a day in a quiet office.
I have been on the move or my work has been on the move for almost two weeks straight. I am not sure what that means, other than there have been quite a few more folks in need than there [...]
Posts from ‘October, 2009’
A Day in a Quiet Office
A Prayer to Saint Luke for the Family Doctor
(Feast, October 19)
GOOD Saint Luke, we are told that before you met our dear Lord and became a follower of His and a writer of His Gospel, you were a doctor. We beg you this day to bless and help and protect our doctor. Obtain for him the graces he most needs to do his [...]
St. Luke the Evangelist
Another Red-Letter day on the Episcopal calendar…
Collect
Almighty God, who inspired your servant Luke the physician to set forth in the Gospel the love and healing power of your Son: Graciously continue in your Church this love and power to heal, to the praise and glory of your Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives [...]
Teresa of Avila
Collect
O God, by your Holy Spirit you moved Teresa of Avila to manifest to your Church the way of perfection: Grant us, we pray, to be nourished by her excellent teaching, and enkindle within us a keen and unquenchable longing for true holiness; through Jesus Christ, the joy of loving hearts, who with you and [...]
Wilfrid, 12 Oct 709
Today in Morning Prayer, there was a reading about Wilfrid, a fascinating priest/bishop of the church in the 8th century. Read the whole story at the Mission of St. Clare.
My favorite anecdote:
On his way to Rome, he spent a year preaching in Frisia, and so was the beginning of the movement by Christian Anglo-Saxons in [...]
Robert Grosseteste, Bishop
This was a Renaissance guy from a small town in England who did some pretty significant things in his life…
Collect
O God, our heavenly Father, who raised up your faithful servant Robert Grosseteste to be a bishop and pastor in your Church and to feed your flock: Give abundantly to all pastors the gifts of your [...]