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http://rmadisonj.blogspot.com/2015/12/something-about-mary.html Highlights & Mini-Bible Study Daily Office Readings | Book of Common Prayer | last century publication Wednesday in the Fourth Week in Advent Shower, O heavens, from above, and let the skies rain down righteousness; let the earth open, that salvation may spring up, and let it cause righteousness to sprout up also. Isaiah 45:8, NRSV, EOW 1 Pray this way or this way or this way . Today | Wednesday | 21 December  2016 Psalm 72 | A prayer for the sake of the King Give the King justice; He will serve the poor; The righteous will live forever; Everyone will do him service; He will redeem them; May the earth be blessed. Revelation 21 | More on the apocalypse. We hear of the beauty and largeness of the new city - Jerusalem; it is adorned by precious stones and metals. Luke 1 | The angel Gabriel appears before a virgin Mary and tells her of the birth of Jesus and John the Baptist; J...

Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Highlights & Mini-Bible Study Daily Office Readings | Book of Common Prayer | last century publication Tuesday in the Fourth Week in Advent Shower, O heavens, from above, and let the skies rain down righteousness; let the earth open, that salvation may spring up, and let it cause righteousness to sprout up also. Isaiah 45:8, NRSV, EOW 1 Pray this way or this way or this way . Today | Tuesday | 20 December  2016 Psalm 66 Be joyful; Sing to the Lord; Awesome are your deeds; See the works of God; Bless the Lord all people. Revelation 20/21 | More on the apocalypse. I saw a new heaven and new earth- a new holy city; God dwells with us. Luke 1 | Conception of John the Baptizer At a particular point in history, Elizabeth, was predicted to become pregnant; Gabriel - the angel of the Lord - meets with Zechariah while he is doing his holy duties and Gabe tells Zac of his wife’s ...

Holy Trinity icon - there is a space for you to sit Highlights from the Daily Office Lectionary Readings of the Book of Common Prayer Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was, and is, and is to come! Revelation 4:8   Daily Office & Pray -  Click here Today |  Tuesday, May 31, 2016 | the Visitation Ps. 72; 1 Samuel 1:1–20; Hebrews 3:1–6; Ps. 146  147; John 3:25–30 Psalm 72 A prayer that the king will prosper and extend God's rule to all of the lands; a royal psalm; May he rule with God's justice; be with the poor; live long; may all the kings fall down before him; for he delivers to the needy; may his name endure forever 1 Samuel 1 First and Second Samuel were originally one work; probably written right after the Babylonian Exile as part of the Deuteronomist history; falls into three parts = Samuel is prophet, priest, and judge; Saul is the first king; David is the main hero; very literary written; Hannah weeps to the high priest Eli for ...

Opening Sentence Behold, I bring you good news of a great joy which will come to all the people; for to you is born this day in the city of David, a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.  - Luke 2:10, 11 Read | Friday, 1 January 2015 - Holy Name Ps. 103; Ps. 148; Isa. 62:1–5 10–12; Rev. 19:11–16; Matt. 1:18–25 The Holy Name of Jesus - By Jastrow (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Reflection | Psalm 103  -  Literary type | Hymn  |  click here God heals, redeems, gives you youth, made the Lord's ways and mercy; God has removed our sins from us; we are mortal here today and gone tomorrow -but God endures forever; God's throne is in heaven; bless those who do God's will. Isaiah 62 - God will rejoice over Zion as a new father over a new mother; they shall be called the Holy Ones and Redeemed of God. Revelation 19 -  Alleluia – evil is defeated – God reigns after a war. Matthew 1 - Mary was found to be pregnant; G...

Read |  Day 267 | Thursday | September 24 | Mark 1: 1  Luke 1: 1-4  John 1: 1-18 Matthew 1: 1-17  Luke 3: 23b-38  Luke 1: 5-25, 26-38  Background | Center for Biblical Studies |  Mark’s Gospel is second in canonical order, but New Testament scholars understand that was written before the other Gospels. Matthew’s Gospel uses some of Mark’s for writing his account of Jesus’ life; Luke’s Gospel uses Mark as well. There is also likely an even older tradition that Matthew, Mark, and Luke all were familiar with, not to mention various oral traditions. This theory best explains why there is so much overlap between these three Gospels while at the same time there are so many significant differences. Because these three Gospels overlap in wording and content as often as they do, they are called the “synoptic Gospels” (Greek, syn, together with; optic, seeing). John’s Gospel presents Jesus in a different way, and there is likely very little, if any, connec...

Read |  Day 250 | Monday | September 7  Daniel 7: 1-14, 15-28  Daniel 8: 1-14, 15-27  Daniel 5: 1-12, 13-31  Dates| 559 -556 BC Reading | Daniel - dreams and sees four beasts; vision explained; vision of ram and goat and also explained; Gabriel comes and explains further; the Babylonian king sees writing, Daniel explains the writing, king is slain that night. Next |  Day 251 | Tuesday | September 8   Daniel 6: 1-28 Daniel 9: 1-19, 20-27 2   Chronicles 36: 22-23 Ezra 1: 1-11 1   Chronicles 3: 17-19a  +++ Philippians 1:1-11 (NRSV) … Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank my God every time I remember you, constantly praying with joy in every one of my prayers for all of you, because of your sharing in the gospel from the first day until now. I am confident of this, that the one who began a good work among you will bring it to completion by the day of Jesus Christ. It is right f...