Salvation Has Come To This House: Twenty-First Sunday After Pentecost

Dear friends,

Advent begins on November 27 and I’ve been happily preparing the 29 meditations to arrive in your inbox each day for the entire season. If you or someone you know would enjoy accessing the Daybook Meditations in a one-time .pdf download, it’s now available for $7 in my shop: Advent Daybook 2022.

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Tamara

Welcome to the weekly Ordinary Time Daybook devotional post for the 24 weeks between Pentecost and Advent. Ordinary Time is the longest season of the church calendar - a season of working and resting with Christ as he brings God's kingdom on earth as it is in heaven. 

You can read here for a brief description of the liturgical season of Ordinary Time.

LOOK: Repent and Sin No More!, Andy Warhol - Source

[Victoria Emily Jones shares meaningful insight on this unexpected work from Warhol at her stupendous blog, Art & Theology: https://artandtheology.org/2020/09/22/turn-and-live-artful-devotion/]

LISTEN: The Zaccheus Song, The Porter’s Gate, feat. Sandra McCracken & Paul Zach - Chords & Lyrics | Spotify | YouTube

READ: Isaiah 1:10-20; Psalm 32; 2 Thessalonians 1:1-12; Luke 19:1-10

Daily Readings for the Week of the Twenty-First Sunday After Pentecost*:

Monday (10/31) Psalm 56-57; Psalm 64-65; Sirach 38:24-34; Revelation 14:1-13; Luke 12:49-59 **

Tuesday (11/1) Psalm 61-62; Psalm 68:1-36; Sirach 43:1-22; Revelation 14:14-15:8; Luke 13:1-9 **

Wednesday (11/2) Psalm 72; Psalm 119:73-96; Sirach 43:23-33; Revelation 16:1-11; Luke 13:10-17 **

Thursday (11/3) Psalm 71; Psalm 74; Sirach 44:1-15; Revelation 16:12-21; Luke 13:18-30 **

Friday (11/4) Psalm 69:1-38; Psalm 73; Sirach 50:1,11-24; Revelation 17:1-18; Luke 13:31-35 **

Saturday (11/5) Psalm 75-76; Psalm 23, 27; Sirach 51:1-12; Revelation 18:1-14; Luke 14:1-11 **

**The Apocrypha: What Is It? Why do Anglicans Read It?

PRAY: Collect for Twenty-First Sunday After Pentecost, the Book of Common Prayer

Almighty and everlasting God, you govern all things both in heaven and on earth: Mercifully hear the supplications of your people, and in our time grant us your peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

DO: Tuesday is All Saint’s Day.

All Saints Day arrives in the church calendar right about the time our fickle memories begin to forget such a manner of keeping time even exists. Advent is still a few weeks away, but this feast day invite us to begin remembering again.

If the Church year provides us a pathway through the life (and death and life again) of Jesus, then the Feast of All Saints reminds us we do not travel alone.

Click through the archive below. Spend some time this week with the images, prayers, and practices of the Feast of All Saints. Thank God that we are not alone.

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*Sunday Scripture readings are taken from Year C of the Book of Common Prayer 2019 (Anglican Church of North America). Daily Scripture readings are taken from the 1979 Book of Common Prayer and include both Morning and Evening Psalms (Year 2)