dual personalities

October 2, 2011

Evensong

by chuckofish

I went to Evensong tonight because I do love that service.

I was recruited immediately to read the first lesson. I did not sound like Anthony Hopkins I’m afraid, but I did my best.
And I was rewarded with this:
“‘For who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?’ But we have the mind of Christ.”
Awesome.
And, of course, St. Augustine’s great evening prayer:
Keep watch , dear Lord,with those who work, or watch, or weep this night, and give thine angels charge over those who sleep. Tend the sick, Lord Christ; give rest to the weary, bless the dying, soothe the suffering, pity the afflicted, shield the joyous; and all for thy love’s sake. Amen.
Let us bless the Lord.

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October 2, 2011

The upward call

by chuckofish

From today’s lectionary: “…that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death;that if possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect; but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brethren, I do not consider that I have made it my own; but one thing I do, forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.”

Don’t you always hear the voice of Anthony Hopkins when you read the words of St. Paul? Well, I do. (Yes, yes, and God is Ralph Richardson, but that’s another post.)

Anyway, these are good lines to keep close in our pockets during the week ahead. The past is prologue; onward and upward.

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