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  • It’s your choice, really…

    Today’s Readings: Deuteronomy 8:2-3, 14B-16A 1 Corinthians 10:16-17 John 6:51-58 The Jews quarreled among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you.” John 6:52-53You may know…

  • Metanoia – Flashback Friday Playlist

    A musical meditation on being a prodigal. Everything from Garth Brooks to Kylie Minogue with yer host as a V.J. and a story teller in the middle. And a come to Jesus Moment. Lumiere! Musique!

  • Fourth Petition – Jesus Psalter

    To see all the other notes in this series, click on “Jesus Psalter” or in the labels below. To see the first post click here. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus comfort me. (x10) Jesus comfort me and give me grace place my chief, my only joy in thee. Send me heavenly meditations, spiritual sweetness, and fervent desires of thy…

  • Paul on the Hill of Athens

    Today’s Readings: Acts 17:15, 22—18:1 John 16:12-15 {The Spirit} will guide you to all truth. John 16:13What therefore you unknowingly worship, I proclaim to you. Acts 16:23 I love that these two readings are a set, coming as we ramp up to Pentecost. The entire mystery of Passover is about to be revealed to the…

  • Serve’n’Wash’n’Serve

    Today’s Readings: Acts 16:22-34 John 16:5-11 He took them in at that hour of the night and bathed their wounds; then he and all his family were baptized at once. He brought them up into his house and provided a meal and with his household rejoiced at having come to faith in God. Acts 16:33b-34…

  • Wash’n’Serve

    Today’s readings: Acts 16:11-15 John 15:26-16:4A After Lydia and her household had been baptized, she offered us an invitation, “If you consider me a believer in the Lord, come and stay at my home.”  Acts 16:15a What’s the first thing the new believer wants to do? Serve. The natural sense of the clergy is to…

  • Sanctify in Y’all’s Hearts.

    Today’s Readings: Acts 8:5-8, 14-1 1 Peter 3:15-18 John 14:15-21 Dominum autem Christum sanctificate in cordibus vestris, parati semper ad satisfactionem omni poscenti vos rationem de ea, quæ in vobis est, spe. Sed cum modestia, et timore, conscientiam habentes bonam.Sanctify the Lord Christ in your hearts, being ready always to satisfy every one that asketh…

  • If Found: Send me Back to Barbary Lane

    Sometimes there’s a sort of frisson around SF, that I belong here, that this is home in ways I can’t explain, that – as Anna Madrigal says to Mary Ann, “You’re one of us.”  She means Atlantean because it was a good HippieSF idea that when all the Atlantean souls reincarnate they will all move back…

  • According to Hoyle

    Today’s readings: 1 Corinthians 15:1-8 John 14:6-14 For I handed on to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures; that he was buried; that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures.1 Corinthians 15:3-4 Baseball and Mixed Martial…

  • All the Dang Time

    Today’s readings: Acts 7:51-8:1A John 6:30-35 Dixit autem eis Jesus: Ego sum panis vitæ: qui venit ad me, non esuriet, et qui credit in me, non sitiet umquam. Jesus said, I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me will never hunger, and whoever believes in me will never thirst. John 6:35 We’ve reached…

  • Who will help us escape?

    Today’s readings: Acts 6:8-15 John 6:22-29 Respondit eis Jesus, et dixit: Amen, amen dico vobis: quæritis me non quia vidistis signa, sed quia manducastis ex panibus et saturati estis. Jesus answered them, Believe me, if you are looking for me now, it is not because of the miracles you have seen; it is because you…

  • Supper at Emmaus

    Today’s Readings: Acts 2:14, 22-33 1 Peter 1:17-21 Luke 24:13-35 And he said to them, “Oh, how foolish you are! How slow of heart to believe all that the prophets spoke! Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?” Then beginning with Moses and all the prophets,…

  • Iesu, Iesu, Iesu, esto mihi Iesu.

    Today’s Readings: Acts 5:27-33 John 3:31-36 Obedire oportet Deo magis quam hominibus. We must obey God rather than men.  Acts 5:29b First off I suck at this. I try to get better. But I suck at it. This is my brief meditation today: The Martyrs of England are a better model for us today than…

  • Tikkun Olam.

    Today’s Readings: Acts 5:17-26 John 3:16-21 For God sent not his Son into the world, to judge the world, but that the world may be saved by him. He that believeth in him is not judged. But he that doth not believe, is already judged: because he believeth not in the name of the only begotten…

  • Resist!

    Today’s Readings: 1 Peter 5:5B-14 Mark 16:15-20 Be sober and vigilant. Your opponent the Devil is prowling around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, steadfast in faith. 1 Peter 5:8 These words are the opening of Benedictine Compline (and the traditional Roman Compline), an office I sang for a long…