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Morning Prayer for Tuesday 5.19.26
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We encountered technical difficulties with zoom and internet connect ability today . I have posted one of our recordings but be advised it is not our usual quality. (Fr. Tom) Here is a link to our liturgy: Morning Prayer 5.19.26, Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988 | Daily Office Network
Good morning and welcome. I'm Father Tom Roy, the Vicar of the Daily Options, who gather together on a daily basis to pray morning prayer at 7 and 9 a.m. Eastern time, Monday through Friday. We use the Episcopal Church's Book of Common Prayer as our guide. We mix in artwork, a news story. We have music at the end. All are welcome here, where we do our best to exercise tolerance and decency with one another. Now let's settle in and begin morning prayer. Today is Tuesday. It is the 19th of May, 2024. Six. In the life of the church, our saint is Dunstan, an Archbishop of Canterbury who died in the year 988. The Daily Office Network is podcasting Monday through Friday. Our services that we have here in the morning are edited and then posted to our podcast on Apple and Spotify. You can find those by searching keywords, Daily Office Network. Let's begin. The elders of Bethlehem came to meet Samuel trembling and said, Do you come peaceably? A photograph of cranes strung together hanging from a ceiling. Episcopalians from the United States and France have folded and donated more than 5,000 origami cranes to the Diocese of Olympia, ahead of the church's Asia America Ministries annual retreat for Episcopal clergy and lay leaders of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander heritage. The cranes were strung together and brought to a shrine in front of the U.S. Immigration. And for the 70 retreat to pray for peace and solidarity with detained migrants.
SPEAKER_10Each crane sent to us was a I can't hear you now, Father Tom.
SPEAKER_05Can others hear me? You're you're coming in and out.
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SPEAKER_05How about I just unplug? Can you hear me now? Sounds good. Okay, I'm gonna go without headphones then. So let's read that, let's read that story again because I can edit out what I've already read. We have here is a photograph of cranes that are strung from the ceiling, origami cranes. Episcopalians from the United States and France folded and donated more than 5,000 origami cranes to the Diocese of Olympia, ahead of the church's Asia America Ministries annual retreat for Episcopal clergy and lay leaders of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage. The cranes were strung together and brought to a shrine in front of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington, where the 70 retreat participants gathered to pray for peace and solidarity with their detained migrants. Each crane was sent to us as a prayer, and individual we were all praying together with everyone who folded paper cranes. The Reverend Joanne Lagman, the Episcopal Church's missioner for Asia America Ministries and Filipino Americans, said, To me, it was quite healing. I bet it was the solidarity alone. On this day the Lord has acted, will we rejoice and be glad in it? We will rejoice and be glad in it. Addie, would you lead us in the invitatory in the Psalter? Lord open our lips and our mouths shall proclaim your praise.
SPEAKER_02Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now and will be forever. Amen. Hallelujah. Christ our Passover. Therefore, let us keep the peace. Not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. Christ being raised from the dead will never die again. Death no longer has dominion over him. The death that he died, he died to sin once for all. But the life he lives, he lives to God. So also consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God and Jesus Christ our Lord. Hallelujah. Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruit of those who have fallen asleep. For since by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all died, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_05Thank you, Eddie. Our Psalms appointed for today are Psalm number 97 and Psalm number 99. And I'm going to ask Jacqueline and Martha to lead our psalm. Jacqueline, would you start?
SPEAKER_03The Lord is sovereign. Let the earth rejoice. Let the multitude of the isles be glad.
SPEAKER_12Love and darkness around about you. Righteousness and justice are the foundations of your tomb.
SPEAKER_03A fire goes before you and burns up your enemies on every side.
SPEAKER_12The earth sees it and is afraid.
SPEAKER_03The mountains melt like wax at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
SPEAKER_12And all the peoples see your glory.
SPEAKER_03Confounded be all who worship carved images and delight in false gods. Bow down before the God, the Lord, all you gods.
SPEAKER_12Zion hears and is glad, and his cities of Judah rejoice because of your judgments, O Lord.
SPEAKER_03For you are the Lord, most high over all the earth. You are exalted far above all gods.
SPEAKER_12Allah loves those who hate evil. The Lord preserves the lives of the faithful and delivers them from the hand of the wicked.
SPEAKER_03Light has sprung up for the righteous, and joyful gladness for those who are true hearted.
SPEAKER_12Rejoice in the Lord, you righteous, and to the holy name of the Lord give your praise.
SPEAKER_03The Lord is sovereign. Let the people tremble. The Lord is enthroned upon the cherubim. Let the earth shake.
SPEAKER_12The Lord is great in Zion and is high above all peoples.
SPEAKER_03Let them confess the name of the Lord, which is great and awesome. The Lord is the Holy One.
SPEAKER_12Almighty sovereign lover of justice, you have established equity. You have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.
SPEAKER_03Proclaim the greatness of the Lord our God and fall down before the footstool of the Holy One.
SPEAKER_12Moses and Aaron among your priests, and Samiah among those who call upon your name.
SPEAKER_03They kept your testimonies and the decree that you gave them.
SPEAKER_12O Lord our God, you answered them indeed. You were a God who forgave them, yet punished them for their evil deeds.
SPEAKER_03Proclaim the greatness of the Lord our God and worship him upon God's holy hill. For the Lord our God is the holy one.
SPEAKER_12Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now and will be forever. Amen.
SPEAKER_05Amen. Is this headset better?
SPEAKER_01It sounds good right now.
SPEAKER_05Okay, thank you. This is by James to sew. This is the James to sew Bible from 1889. Jesse presents his sons to Samuel. Our reading is from 1 Samuel chapter 16, verses 1 through 13. Chad, would you lead this?
SPEAKER_01The Lord said to Samuel, How long will you grieve over Saul? I have rejected him from being king over Israel. Fill your horn with oil and set out. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for myself a king among his sons. Samuel said, How can I go? If Saul hears of it, he will kill me. And the Lord said, Take a heifer with you, and say, I have come to sacrifice to the Lord. Invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do, and you shall anoint for me the one whom I name to you. Samuel did what the Lord commanded and came to Bethlehem. The elders of the city came to him trembling and said, Do you come peaceably? He said, Peaceably, I have come to sacrifice to the Lord. Sanctify yourselves and come with me to the sacrifice. And he sanctified Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice. And when they came he looked on Eliab and thought, Surely the Lord's anointed is now before the Lord. But the Lord said to Samuel, Do not look on his appearance or the height of his stature, because I have rejected him, for the Lord does not see as mortals see. They look on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart. Then Jesse called Aden Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel, and he said, Neither has the Lord chosen this one. Then Jesse made Shema pass by, and he said, Neither has the Lord chosen this one. Jesse made seven of his sons pass before Samuel, and Samuel said to Jesse, The Lord has not chosen any of these. Samuel said to Jesse, Are all your sons here? He said, There remains yet the youngest, but he is keeping the sheep. And Samuel said to Jesse, Send and bring him, for we will not sit down until he comes here. He sent and brought him in. Now he was ruddy and had beautiful eyes, and was handsome. And the Lord said, Rise and anoint him, for this is the one. Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the presence of his brothers, and the spirit of the Lord came mightily upon David from that day forward. Samuel then set out and went to Ramah. The Word of the Lord.
SPEAKER_05Thanks be to God. Thank you, Chen. Our first canticle is a song of pilgrimage. Mother Unjell, would you lead this?
SPEAKER_06Before I ventured for us, even when I wanna spend a remote I saw it wisdom of the lady in the fore courts of the temple. And then we'll see her to the end. From the first blessed fruit, she has been hunt. My foot is coming to the troop. Diligently from my youth of my pursuit. I'm inclined to my little myself much wisdom and became a temptum to the one who gives me wisdom. Will I give glory for my reversal to live according to her way? From the beginning I gained courage from home. Therefore I will not be forsaken. In my inmost being I have been stood to seek her. Therefore have I gained a good possession. As my reward, the Almighty is giving me the gift of language, and with it I will offer praise to God.
SPEAKER_05Thank you, Mother Angel. The colors, just the way this looks, it's Rembrandt. Starting to recognize this stuff. This is from sixteen fifty-seven, and it's the Apostle Paul writing and praying for the Ephesians. Paul, would you lead this?
SPEAKER_11For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth takes its name. I pray that, according to the riches of his glory, he may grant that you may be strengthened in your inner being with power through his spirit, and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, as you are being rooted and grounded in love. I pray that you may have the power to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Now to him who by the power at work within us is able to accomplish abundantly far more than all we can ask or imagine. To him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
SPEAKER_05The word of the Lord.
SPEAKER_11The word of the Lord, sorry.
SPEAKER_05That's all right. Thanks be to God. Our next canticle is a song of faith, Mother Angel.
SPEAKER_06Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. By divine mercy, we have a new birth into a living hope. Through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. We have an inheritance that is imperishable in heaven. The ransom that was paid to free us was not paid in silver or gold, but in the precious blood of Christ, the lamb without spot or stain. God raised Jesus from the dead and gave him glory so that we might have faith and hope in God.
SPEAKER_05Thank you, Mother Unjo. Another James to sew. This one is Jesus stilling the tempest. It's in the British Museum. The guy at the top really looks like he's straining with that oar, too. Matthew chapter eight, verses eighteen through twenty-seven. Deacon Diana, would you lead this?
SPEAKER_04Now, when Jesus saw great crowds around him, he gave orders to go over to the other side. A scribe then approached and said, Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go. And Jesus said to him, Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head. Another of his disciples said to him, Lord, first let me go and bury my father. But Jesus said to him, Follow me and let the dead bury their own dead. And when he got into the boat, his disciples followed him. A wind storm arose on the sea, so great that the boat was being swamped by the waves, but he was asleep. And they went and woke him up saying, Lord, save us, we are perishing. And he said to them, Why are you afraid, you of little faith? Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a dead calm. They were amazed, saying, What sort of man is this that even the winds and the sea obey him? The word of the Lord.
SPEAKER_05Thanks be to God. Thank you, Deacon. And now the Apostles' Creed. Gordon, can you lead us in the creed?
SPEAKER_00I believe in God, the Father Almighty, creator of heaven and earth. I believe in Jesus Christ, God's only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried. He descended to the dead. On the third day, he rose again. He ascended into heaven. He is seated at the right hand of the Father, and he will come again to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.
SPEAKER_05Amen. Thank you, Gordon. And now the prayers begin with our Lord's Prayer. Michael Brown, would you lead us in the Lord's Prayer and then we'll read the suffrages?
SPEAKER_09The Lord be with you.
SPEAKER_05And also with you.
SPEAKER_09Let us pray. Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, and your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us. Save us from the time of trial and deliver us from evil. For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours now and forever. Amen.
SPEAKER_05Help us, O God, our Savior.
SPEAKER_09Deliver us and forgive us our sins.
SPEAKER_05Look upon your congregation.
SPEAKER_09Give to your people the blessing of peace.
SPEAKER_05Declare your glory among the nations and your wonders among all peoples. Do not let the oppressed be shamed and turned away.
SPEAKER_09Never forget the lives of your poor. And your favor to those who are true of heart.
SPEAKER_05Satisfy us by your loving kindness in the morning.
SPEAKER_09So shall we rejoice and be glad all the days of our lives?
SPEAKER_05Thank you, Michael. This is an icon of our saint of the day from our very own Mother Angel. This is Saint Dunstan of Canterbury. Saint Dunstan was a monk as well as an archbishop and led a revival of English monasticism after Viking invaders laid waste to much of the country and the church. He's the patron saint of metal workers and bell casters. Think of him the next time a church bell sings.
SPEAKER_07Saint Dunstan or Saint Saint of the Day.
SPEAKER_05And now two prayers, the collect of the day for Dunstan, the Archbishop of Canterbury, who died in the year 988, and a prayer for the nation. Jill, would you lead these two prayers?
SPEAKER_10Direct your church, O Lord, in the beauty of holiness, that following the good example of your servant Dun Dunstan, we may honor your Son Jesus Christ with our lips and in our lives. To the glory of his name who lives and reigns with you in the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen. Lord God Almighty, you have made all the peoples of the earth for your glory, to serve you in freedom and in peace. Give to the people of our country a zeal for justice and the strength of forbearance, that we may use our liberty in accordance with your gracious will. Through Jesus Christ, our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. Amen.
SPEAKER_05Amen. Thank you, Jill. And now it's time for our weekly report on military news, which is called They Have Names. It was started in 2007 by our late honorary deacon Clint Gillilan, a retired Navy medic. They have names, our service members at home and abroad. They're in danger from the minute that they take the oath. While we have no deaths to report in war, we do have two deaths to report of two of our service members. We previously touched on this story, but we didn't have names or circumstances. We still don't know a lot of the circumstances, but two weeks ago we reported about two missing soldiers in Morocco. It appears that the two fell off of a cliff and into the sea. These soldiers have been identified, and in their bodies have been recovered. Above on the left is specialist Mariah Seymour Collington of Florida. She was 19 years old. On the right is First Lieutenant Kendrick Lamont Key, Jr., 27 years old. Both were members of Charlie Battery, 5th Battalion, 4th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command. Said that the two soldiers fell off of a cliff during a recreational hike. Their duties were done for the day. And they were off duty in Morocco and had gone for a hike. They don't know why they fell off, only that they did. A Moroccan military search team found Lieutenant Kay in the water along the shoreline at approximately 8 55 a.m. on May the 9th, within roughly one mile of where they believe both soldiers reportedly fell into the ocean or entered the ocean. No details were shared about the recovery of Specialist Collington, other than her body was not recovered at the same time as Keyes, and it sounds like it was a little different location. The two bodies of the soldiers are en route to the United States at this time. The military is being very tight-lipped about this, other than to let us know that they were not participating in training or an active duty assignment or something else that was going on. They're stationed in Morocco, and they took a break, and both of them were killed. And so we pray for those on active duty. We pray for all of our soldiers on active duty, and we have a few here that you have named and ask us to pray for. Almighty God, we commend to your gracious care and keeping all the men and women of our armed forces at home and abroad, defend them day by day with your heavenly grace, strengthen them in their trials and their temptations, give them the courage to face the perils which beset them, and grant them a sense of your abiding presence wherever they may be through Jesus. Christ our Lord. Amen. And a collect for peace. O God, the author of peace and the lover of concord, to know you is eternal life, and to serve you as perfect freedom. Defend us your humble servants in all assaults of our enemies, that we, surely trusting in your defense, may not fear the power of any adversaries, through the might of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. And that's our report for They Have Names. Let's remember to pray for our service members at home and abroad and support those who keep the home fires burning. We'll continue with the colic for the mission of the church. I'm going to ask Patricia to lead this, and then I'll bless the Lord and bless us.
SPEAKER_08Lord Jesus Christ, you stretched out your arms of love on the hard wood of the cross that everyone might come within the reach of your saving embrace. So clothe us in your spirit, that we, reaching forth our hands in love, may bring those who do not know you to the knowledge and love of you, to the honor of your name. Amen.
SPEAKER_05Let us bless the Lord.
SPEAKER_08Thanks be to God.
SPEAKER_05Life is short and we don't have much time to gladden the hearts of those. Does it make the journey with us? The love of God, the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you now and remain with you always. Amen.
SPEAKER_12Amen.
SPEAKER_05And that is morning prayer on this Tuesday. Thank you for coming to pray today. Wherever you go, take that love of Jesus that lives inside of you, that Jesus you carry in your heart. Share that Jesus with the world. Show that Jesus to the world. Hope to see you back with us tomorrow, safe and sound.