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  • The Third Sunday After Trinity

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    Collect: O Lord, we beseech thee mercifully to hear us; and grant that we, to whom thou hast given an hearty desire to pray, may, by thy mighty aid, be defended and comforted in all dangers and adversities; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Saints Days Thursday, July 11 – St. Benedict of Nursia All we know about St. Benedict of Nursia is what St....

    July 7, 2019
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  • The Second Sunday After Trinity

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    Collect: “O Lord, who never failest to help and govern those whom thou dost bring up in thy steadfast fear and love; Keep us, we beseech thee, under the protection of thy good providence, and make us to have a perpetual fear and love of thy holy Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.” Feast Day: Tuesday, July 2: The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin...

    June 30, 2019
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  • A Window into Helen’s Home

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    I’m excited to share with you this next submission to our Meaningful Home series. The series has been inspired by G.K. Chesterton’s advice “It is the main earthly business of a human being to make his home, and the immediate surroundings of his home, as symbolic and significant to his own imagination as he can.” Our friend Helen Moineau is an Anglican missionary in Croatia with...

    June 25, 2019
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    Anglican, Home, The Symbolic Home

  • Pentecost, Commonly Called Whitsunday

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    The Collect O God, who as at this time didst teach the hearts of thy faithful people, by sending to them the light of thy Holy Spirit; Grant us by the same Spirit to have a right judgement in all things, and evermore to rejoice in his holy comfort; through the merits of Christ Jesus our Saviour, who liveth and reigneth with thee, in...

    June 9, 2019
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    Pentecost, weekly post

  • The Sunday after Ascension

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    Collect: O God, the King of glory, who hast exalted thine only Son Jesus Christ with great triumph into thy kingdom in heaven; We beseech thee, leave us not comfortless; but send to us thy Holy Ghost to comfort us, and exalt us unto the same place whither our Saviour Christ is gone before, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the same Holy Ghost,...

    June 2, 2019
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    Advent, Book of Common Prayer, weekly post

  • A Window into Libby’s Home

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    It’s been so exciting to receive your submissions to our Meaningful Home series. The series has been inspired by G.K. Chesterton’s advice “It is the main earthly business of a human being to make his home, and the immediate surroundings of his home, as symbolic and significant to his own imagination as he can.” Here is another great submission from Libby Ibanez, a homeschooling mom...

    May 29, 2019
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    Anglican, Family Culture, The Symbolic Home

  • The Fifth Week after Easter (Rogation and Ascension)

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    Feast Days Sunday through Wednesday, May 26-29: Rogation Sunday & Rogation Days Collect for Rogation Sunday: O Lord, from whom all good things do come; Grant to us thy humble servants, that by thy holy inspiration we may think those things that are good, and by thy merciful guiding may perform the same; through our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. The word “Rogation” comes from...

    May 26, 2019
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    Anglican, Feast day, weekly post

  • The Sullivan Home and the Moral Imagination

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    We’re delighted to share with you a new addition to our Meaningful Home Series — a reflection and blessing for a house from our poet friend Helena Nellie Sullivan. Nellie is a former English and poetry teacher who lives in Carson City, Michigan with her husband and two children (they actually live in a funeral home, where her husband works). She begins by interacting...

    May 22, 2019
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    Family Culture, Home, The Symbolic Home

  • The Fourth Sunday After Easter

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    Collect: O Almighty God, who alone canst order the unruly wills and affections of sinful men; Grant unto thy people, that they may love the thing which thou commandest, and desire that which thou dost promise; that so, among the sundry and manifold changes of the world, our hearts may surely there be fixed, where true joys are to be found; through Jesus Christ...

    May 19, 2019
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    Anglican, weekly post

  • A Window Into Meghan’s Home

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    This post is part of our series on making meaningful homes, following G.K. Chesterton’s advice: “It is the main earthly business of a human being to make his home, and the immediate surroundings of his home, as symbolic and significant to his own imagination as he can.”  If you’d like to contribute, email thehomelyhours@gmail.com with your guest post! Thanks to Meghan Tarsitano for her contribution and...

    May 15, 2019
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    Anglican, Family Culture, Home, Little Oratory, The Symbolic Home

The Fourth Sunday After Trinity

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(There weren’t any saints listed on the Ordo Calendar for this week, so it’s nice to take a little break. )

July 14, 2019
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The Third Sunday After Trinity

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Collect: O Lord, we beseech thee mercifully to hear us; and grant that we, to whom thou hast given an hearty desire to pray, may, by thy mighty aid, be...

July 7, 2019
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The Second Sunday After Trinity

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Collect: “O Lord, who never failest to help and govern those whom thou dost bring up in thy steadfast fear and love; Keep us, we beseech thee, under the protection...

June 30, 2019
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“Life by the Kalendar”

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From Spiritual Proficiency, by Martin Thornton: ” ‘The Christian is, in one sense, successively becoming what, in another sense, he already is. He increasingly makes his own the supernatural and eternal...

June 29, 2019
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“If we loved children, we would have a few. If we had them, we would want them as children, and would love the wonder with which they behold the world, and would hope some of it might open our eyes a little. We would love their games, and would want to play them once in a while, stirring in ourselves those memories of play that no one regrets, and that are almost the only things an old man can look back on with complete satisfaction. We would want children tagging along after us, or if not, then only because we would understand that they had better things to do.” -Anthony Esolen
The collect for the fourth Sunday after Trinity is so beautiful. . (No saints listed on the Ordo Calendar this week, so it's nice to take a little break
T.S. Eliot, Choruses from "The Rock." . (We have those first three lines of this excerpt hung on a wall at our church.)
Happy feast day of St. Benedict! I enjoyed reading this book to my children, The Holy Twins: Benedict and Scholastica by Kathleen Norris. . . Me: "Someday, in the new heavens and earth, we will know St. Benedict and St. Scholastica and love Jesus with them." My almost 3 year old: "I don't like boys." . . . Nice. Glad that she's getting so much out of our liturgical living efforts. 😂 But truly, my hope is that being attentive to days like this with my children (even in very small ways) helps to populate their imagination of the kingdom of God, the great "cloud of witnesses." Though my 3 year old's response to St. Benedict right now is "I don't like boys," may these remembrances (accumulated over time) make church history real, homely, personal. May our children know that the Church's history is also our family history. It belongs to us and we belong to this great story.
If you're interested, you can find the weekly guide for the third Sunday after Trinity at the link in our profile. . "O Lord, we beseech thee mercifully to hear us; and grant that we, to whom thou hast given an hearty desire to pray, may, by thy mighty aid, be defended and comforted in all dangers and adversities; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. "
We're getting ready to host our church's summer folksing tomorrow afternoon. It's always such a fun time. Around St. Patrick's day, we do an Irish Folksing and in the summer, we focus more on American and English folk songs (and then, we have our Advent hymnsing at the beginning of December). Here are some of the songs we'll be singing: Froggy Went A-Courtin Shady Grove Scrapin Up Sand at the Bottom of the Sea The Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night Leatherwing Bat Simple Gifts This Land is Your Land I've Been Working on the Railroad Oh Shenandoah I kind of see these folksings as an extension of my church music director role. We learn to sing as a gift of ourselves to others. Since nowadays, we see singing as an activity mostly for the professionals, we struggle to let go our of self-consciousness and sing heartily out of love. Folk music can help us. Folk music is music passed down for normal people to sing. Sometimes it sounds silly, but once you start to sing it, you realize "Oh, this is why this has been around forever." The book pictured is one of my favorites. We LOVE John Langstaff (look up his "Songs for Singing Children!"). We also love Jill Trinka and our newest favorite is @roundaboutfolk. If you're interested in more thoughts about music, in the Trinity 2 link in our profile, you can find some articles from a couple years back about "Imagining Musical Culture."
If you'd like, you can find the guide to the second week after Trinity at the link in our profile. Here is the collect for the week: . “O Lord, who never failest to help and govern those whom thou dost bring up in thy steadfast fear and love; Keep us, we beseech thee, under the protection of thy good providence, and make us to have a perpetual fear and love of thy holy Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.”
It's the feast day of St. Peter and St. Paul. Here is a quote on "life by the Kalendar" from Martin Thornton's Spiritual Proficiency, that is especially pertinent today: . . . ” ‘The Christian is, in one sense, successively becoming what, in another sense, he already is. He increasingly makes his own the supernatural and eternal life which is the life of God. Hence on the supernatural plane he transcends the separation of past-present-and-future.’ [Mascall] . The importance of this theology is that the Church’s year, incorporated in the Kalendar, is of private as well as corporate significance. In practice, life in the Church, and recollection of that life, means life by the Kalendar and we must believe that the little bit of time-space experience we call ‘June the twenty-ninth’ really means something definite to all the saints in heaven and to St. Peter in particular. The Office and Mass on that day, and therefore our private prayer as well, are no bare memorial to one of the Apostles, but the expression of this time-eternal, earth-heaven, nature-grace, link. . . . . . . the Church’s Kalendar provides not just a useful means of conducting services in an orderly way, but a practical basis for our grasping eternity in our earthly lives. . . We should look on each Saint’s Day with as much joy as we look on our birthday or wedding anniversary. And, of special significance here, we should begin every day with clear knowledge of what it is in the whole threefold Church, especially as recollective prayer in times of holiday or relaxation of Rule. It may seem a bit strange to decide to spend the Friday after the fifth Sunday after Trinity on the beach with the children, but is a most real aid in the colouring of our whole life with the tints of the eternal presence of Christ. And here is a most valuable hint on the gentle art of breaking Rule, the ‘technique of not going to Church’: never miss going to Mass on ‘Sunday” — if something goes wrong, or in cases of illness, we must try to be conscious that we are missing, not Sunday, but Trinity X, or Lent II, or Epiphany IV or whatever it is.”
I'm excited to share with you a new submission to our Meaningful Home series from our friend @helen.wildrose! Helen is an Anglican missionary in Croatia with her husband and two young children. She writes from the perspective of moving over a dozen times in the last six years. You can find her beautiful reflection and photos at the link in our profile. . "No matter how badly plans in life go, no matter the uprooting and lack of certainty, we still meet together as a family in prayer and worship once again. This prayer space of ours may hang on a new wall or rest on a new shelf every few months, but our faith, Christ’s presence in our lives, the daily breathing in and out of family prayer, it all continues on, despite our circumstances and frustrations. A simple candle still burns brightly, representing Christ among us, the Light of the world."
From a sermon by Saint Augustine for the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist: . "John marks the boundary between the Old and New Testaments. Indeed the Lord speaks of him as a sort of  boundary line when he says that 'the Law and the prophets are valid until John the Baptist.' John is both the representative of the past, and the herald of the new.... Although unborn, he lept in his mother's womb at the arrival of blessed Mary. In the womb he was already designated Christ's precursor before they ever met in the flesh. These divine mysteries transcend the limits of our frail human reasoning. When at last John is born and receives his name, his father's tongue was loosened. Let us reflect on the event. . . Zechariah had fallen silent and lost the power of speech until John, the Lord's precursor, is born and restores his voice. Is there not a prophetic dimension to Zechariah's silence, as if there were something hidden, kept secret until Christ could be proclaimed? Zechariah's voice is restored with the birth of John: his speech becomes clear when he is born as was foretold. . . .If John were announcing his own coming, he could not have restored his father's speech. But Zechariah's tongue was loosened because a voice was born. For when John was preaching the coming of the Lord, he was asked: 'Who are you?' And he replied: 'I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness.' John was indeed a voice, but in the beginning was the Word. John was a voice that lasted only for a time; Christ, who is the Word from the beginning, is eternal."

Collect for Trinity 4

“O God, the protector of all who trust in thee, without whom nothing is strong, nothing is holy; Increase and multiply upon us thy mercy; that, thou being our ruler and guide, we may so pass through things temporal, that we finally lose not the things eternal. Grant this, O heavenly Father, for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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