Saturday Compline – O God, the source of eternal light: Shed forth your unending day upon us who watch for you, that our lips may praise you, […]
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Compline on Friday
Friday at Compline – Short Lesson – You, O Lord, are in the midst of us, and we are called by your name; leave us not. ~Jeremiah […]
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Mary, Mother of Our Lord
August 15 – Mary, Mother of Our Lord – The honor paid to Mary, the virgin mother of Jesus Christ our Lord and God, goes back to […]
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Wednesday at Vespers
Vespers on Wednesday – As for man, his days are like grass; he flourishes like a flower of the field; for the wind passes over it, and […]
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Wigbert, Abbot & Missionary
August 13 – Wigbert, Abbot and Missionary – c.670-747 – Born in Wessex, he was an Anglo-Saxon Benedictine monk from the monastery of Glastonbury and a missionary […]
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Vespers on Monday
Monday at Vespers – O great Creator of the sky, Who wouldest not the floods on high With earthly waters to confound, But made the firmament their […]
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Sunday, Nineteenth of the Year
Nineteenth Sunday of the year (LBW 12 Pentecost) – Almighty and everlasting God, you are always more ready to hear than we are to pray, and to […]
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Saint Lawrence, Deacon & Martyr
August 10 – St. Lawrence, Deacon and Martyr – He is remembered for his charitable works which ultimately resulted in a death sentence. The story persists that […]
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Vespers on Friday
Friday at Vespers – Let my prayer be counted as incense before you, and the lifting up of my hands as an evening sacrifice! ~Psalm 141: 2
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Saint Dominic
August 8 – St. Dominic – After his ordination to the priesthood, Dominic spent nine years in Osma, pursuing a life of intense prayer. Dominic and a […]
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