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  • Except you ravish me.

    Today’s readings: Acts 4:21-33 John 3:1-8 And now, Lord, take note of their threats, and enable your servants to speak your word with all boldness…Acts 4:29 At this time there were about 3,000 Christians in the whole world. Some Protestants would have us imagine that, essentially, those 3,000 would be the entire population of Heaven.…

  • Peregrinations

    Some will know my birth-name was Bill.Billy as my Mom calls me.And some will know my spiritual path looks like this.And some will just have to keep praying.How I get there is not as important as getting there at all. This post is made in ironic self-defense.And sort of a sub-blog.

  • The Thomas Option

    Today’s Readings: Acts 2:42-47 1 Peter 1:3-9 John 20:19-31 On the evening of that first day of the week, when the doors were locked, where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews… Thomas, called Didymus, one of the Twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. John 20:19a, 24 Where was Thomas that first night…

  • Third 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 strengthen me. (x10) Jesus strengthen me in soul and body to the performance of all virtue for thy pleasure, whereby I may attain to thy everlasting joy and felicity.…

  • This happened…

    Preparing to celebrate the Resurrection of Christ on Saturday Night, gathered in one room, not knowing it about each other, were: A Fraternity Brother whom I’ve known for 30 years. A Coworker whom I hadn’t met yet. A Goddaughter from the Orthodox Church, and her husband, now returned home. A musician with enough Anglican History…

  • Sonnet for Friday’s Dawn

    X – Peter Now Peter, liar, rock, Apostle, friend Here come I carefully to you: for pot & kettle are both black. May we be not That far by prayer each from the other’s end. The Priceless One betray’d by campfire hot: Your Galilean drawl just cant. Yet I Without a legal threat will try…

  • For late Thursday night

    IX – The GardenIn lunar brilliancy they walking showmid leafy branches’ budding scented bloom& grasses warmed in vernal sun now groomGethsemane, in paschal light aglow. We waiting here, he forward goes for roomTo falling, praying, moaning, sighing, bledTo sobbing, straining, weeping, sweating, redTill far away is heard the tramp of doom Apostles wake upon their…

  • A 2nd Sonnet for Thursday

    VIII – EucharistHe wash’d their feet & now would make them free:a mundane miracle will now combine.The God-Man bids that man on God will dine& daily service now makes unity. These common building blocks of bread & wineour Saviour takes into his holy hands& those, around him sat, his love commandsin mystic rites to make…

  • First Sonnet for Thursday

    VII – The Washing At Table: Christ Mandatum Novum do to us that we in love should brothers hold as He embodies love for us. Thus bold in love the nations seeing might him know. Example: washing feet in servant’s mold! To each apostle come in turn: St Pete refuses God now kneeling at his…

  • The Final Sonnets (for now)

    V Spy Wednesday – JudasNow Judas thief & liar, devil, friendHere come I carefully to you: for pot& kettle are both black. & we are notThat far I think each from the other’s end. The Priceless One you sold for not a lot:the price of one escapéd slave. Yet Ijust any petty lust or care…

  • Two more Holy Week Sonnets

    III Holy Monday – Pharisees Ye scribes & lawyers, hypocrites ye brood of vipers: pharisees who twirl the law to lure a proselyte into your maw then spit out worse; within your precepts stewed! The Torah’s words from out your crooked craw draw obligations far too hard to bear. Our God’s Revealéd words for making…

  • First three sonnets for Holy Week

    Prelude O Lord always majestic is thy name. No man may sing thy praises worthily & mould’ring – wanting words to hear & see is often in believers’ hearts thy fame. Still yet we try with prose & harmony to render mysteries in physic’s space: depicting love as icons show thy face to offer latria…

  • The Second Petition – The Jesus Psalter

    Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, help me. (x10) Jesus help me to overcome all temptation to sin and the malice of my ghostly enemies.Help me to spend my time in virtue and in labors acceptable to thee, to repress in my flesh the motions of sloth, gluttony, and lust.Help me to have a heart fully in love…

  • The First Petition – Jesus Psalter

    This whole series can be found under Jesus Psalter Series in the sidebar. The reader is referred there for “how to” and any historical notes. To the latter I will add more as I find them. Each petition will be posted in the same format: the petition itself, which is to be said ten times, followed…

  • Jesus Psalter – Notes and Practice

    Each section of the Psalter (a Section is Five Decades) opens with the recitation of two verses of Scripture, Philippians 2:10-11. In nomine Jesu omne genu flectatur caelestium, terrestrium et infernorum, Et omnis lingua confiteatur, quia Dominus Jesus Christus in gloria est Dei Patris.In the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those that…