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The Daily Harvest from My Garden – The Gifts of God for the People of God
Harvested from My Garden Today–on My Screened Porch. Heirloom Cucumbers, Better Boy Tomatoes, Kentucky Wonder Green Beans, and California Giant Zinnias. i did not plant the cucumbers or the beans. They are returns from dropped seeds last summer. This morning I went out to my garden and loaded the tale of my t-shirt with some…
Daily Bible Readings & Prayer – June 2, 2025
[Of] Your love, O Lord, forever will I sing; Psalm 89:1| From the rising of the sun Even of the going down of the same.. Malachi 1:11 Bless His Holy name. Psalm 103:1 Sound the ram’s honor at the new moon…Psalm 81:3 The earth is the Lord’s and all that is in it. Psalm 24:1 As a…
What’s In the Book of Common Prayer? How to Find What You Want in the Book of Common Prayer
In this post, I will pass on an invaluable lesson that my Episcopal Priest shared in a Bible Study this week. In jest, he called the following his Cliff Notes Version of the Book of Common Prayer, and it is exactly that–and more An Online Version of The Book of Common Prayer: https://www.episcopalchurch.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/book-of-common-prayer-2006.pdf Where to Find…
Morning Prayer – Prayer for God’s Creation – Book of Common Prayer
“Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: As it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen.” Book of Common Prayer, pg. 42 “The earth is the Lord’s for he made it:| O come, let us adore him…. The mercy of the Lord is everlasting.” Book…
Women in the Bible Whose Lives Were Strengthened by Prayer
The Virgin Mary Led a Godly Life: The Birth of Jesus Foretold 26 In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, 27 to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. 28 The angel went to her and said, “Greetings, you…
God Bless the Water and Rainy Days
Water is a major theme in the Bible. Perhaps that is because water was so very essential to the nomadic people in the Bible. Consider the 23rd Psalm.  2  He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters….â€Â Psalm 23 A psalm of David. 1 The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing. 2     He makes me lie down…
Celebrating the Very Old Epicopalian Tradition of Rogation Sunday
ut Yesterday, my Episcopal Congregation traveled to a member’s farm to celebrate Rogation Sunday. Since the ceremony involved a blessing of the fields, I assumed that the definition of Rogation would involve a few words about agriculture. But the word “Rogation” is defined as a request. For over 1,000 years, the term “Rogation” has been…
The Tradition of Flowering the Cross at Easter
Image Credit:Wikipedia “Flowering the cross is a Western Christian tradition practiced at the arrival of Easter, in which worshippers place flowers on the bare wooden cross that was used in the Good Friday liturgy, in order to symbolize “the new life that emerges from Jesus’s death on Good Friday”.[1][2][3] The result is a flowered cross that is set near the chancel for Eastertide.[4][5] History “The Christian custom…
The Episcopal Calendar – The Feast Days & Seasons of the Episcopal Year
AdventThe Episcopal Church Calendar Begins with Advent. “The first season of the church year, beginning with the fourth Sunday before Christmas and continuing through the day before Christmas. The name is derived from a Latin word for ‘coming.’The season is a time of preparation and expectation for the coming celebration of our Lord’s nativity, and…