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Mon, Aug. 30 - click for podcast
Monday, August 30, 2010 -- Week of Proper 17, Year Two
Charles Chapman Grafton, Bishop of Fond du Lac, and Ecumenist,
1912
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Today's Readings for the Daily Office (Book of Common Prayer, p. 983)
Psalms 25 (morning)
9, 15 (evening)
Job 12:1-6, 13-25
Acts 11:19-30
John 8:21-32
A major theme of the book of Job is
to challenge the conventional theology which makes a divine connection between good fortune and misfortune in this world...
Tue, Aug. 31 - click for podcast
Tuesday, August 31, 2010 -- Week of Proper 17, Year Two
Aidan and Cuthbert, Bishops of Lindisfarne, 651, 687
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Today's Readings for the Daily Office (Book of Common Prayer, p. 983)
Psalms 26, 28 (morning)
36, 39 (evening)
Job 12:1, 13:3-17, 21-27
Acts 12:1-17
John 8:33-47
There is something in the quality
of Job's anguished cry for God in today's reading that reminds me of the passion of the mystics...
Wed., Sep. 1 - click podcast
Wednesday, September 1, 2010 -- Week of Proper 17, Year Two
David Pendleton Okerhater, Deacon and Missionary, 1931
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Today's Readings for the Daily Office (Book of Common Prayer, p. 983)
Psalms 38 (morning)
36, 39 (evening)
Job 12:1, 14:1-22
Acts 12:18-25
John 8:47-59
Job knows that there is nothing after
death but Sheol -- the pit, the grave, the abyss -- where all are removed from the light of God, righteous and unrighteous...
Thurs, Aug. 26 click for podcast
Thursday, August 26, 2010 -- Week of Proper 16, Year Two
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Holy Women, Holy Men blog:
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Today's Readings
for the Daily Office (Book of Common Prayer, p. 981)
Psalms 18:1-20 (morning) 18:21-50
(evening)
Job 8:1-10, 20-22
Acts 10:17-33
John 7:14-36
I remember catching my breath at the funeral
home...
Fri., Sept 3 - click for podcast
Friday, September 3, 2010 -- Week of Proper 17, Year Two
Prudence Crandall, Teacher and Prophetic Witness, 1890
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Today's Readings for the Daily Office (Book of Common Prayer, p. 983)
Psalms 31 (morning)
35 (evening)
Job 19:1-7, 14-27
Acts 13:13-25
John 9:18-41
Job's friends know that Job is a guilty
sinner because their belief tells them that God only punishes the guilty and that God rewards the righteous...
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