Prayer – Locus Communis

The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from the limitations of our own weakness and an invocation of all good to enter and abide with us. George Eliot

The Other

There are nights that are so stillthat I can hear the small owl callingfar off and a fox barkingmiles away. It is then that I liein the lean hours awake listeningto the swell born somewhere in the Atlanticrising and falling, rising and fallingwave on wave on the long shoreby the village, that is without lightandContinue reading “The Other”

In a Country Church

To one kneeling down no word came,Only the wind’ s song, saddening the lipsOf the grave saints, rigid in glass;Or the dry whisper of unseen wings,Bats not angels, in the high roof. Was he balked by silence? He kneeled longAnd saw love in a dark crownOf thorns blazing, and a winter treeGolden with fruit ofContinue reading “In a Country Church”

18 weeks of morning and evening prayers. At 11 point font, they will fit on two pages of a legal-sized bulletin (8.5×14). They are drawn from the Lutheran Book of Prayer, the Book of Common Prayer, Habermann’s prayerbook, some orthodox prayer books, some of Frank Colquhoun’s books on prayer, the Psalms. All in public domain or within usage guidelines. Weeks 1-14 are fairly general prayers. After 14, they are lettered A-D are tied more closely to the church year, beginning at the end of the church year through Advent 1 (one-year lectionary).