Monday, May 20, 2013 -- Week of Proper 2, Year One
Alcuin, Deacon, and Abbot of Tours, 804

Today's Readings for the Daily Office
     (Book of Common Prayer, p. 966)
Psalms   1, 2, 3 (morning)    //    4, 7 (evening
Ruth 1:1-18
1 Timothy 1:1-17
Luke 13:1-9

Today is the feast of Alcuin, one of the luminaries of the great Carolingian Renaissance initiated under the reign of Charlemagne...

Tuesday, May 21, 2013 -- Week of Proper 2, Year One
John Eliot, Missionary among the Algonquin, 1690

Today's Readings for the Daily Office
     (Book of Common Prayer, p. 966)
Psalms   5, 6 (morning)    //    10, 11 (evening
Ruth 1:19 - 2:13
1 Timothy 1:18 - 2:8
Luke 13:10-17

The now childless widow Naomi, without prospects for survival, leaves the home in Edom that had shielded her from an earlier famine in her native Bethlehem...

Wednesday, May 22, 2013 -- Week of Proper 2, Year One

Today's Readings for the Daily Office
     (Book of Common Prayer, p. 966)
Psalms   119:1-24 (morning)    //    12, 13, 14 (evening
Ruth 2:14-23
1 Timothy 3:1-16
Luke 13:18-30

The kingdom of God "is like a mustard seed that someone took and sowed in the garden; it grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air made nests in its branches."  (Luke 13:19)...

Thursday, May 23, 2013  -- Week of Proper 2, Year One
Nicolaus Coperinicus and Johannes Kepler, Astronomers, 1543

Today's Readings for the Daily Office
     (Book of Common Prayer, p. 966)
Psalms   18:1-20 (morning)    //    18:21-50 (evening)
Ruth 3:1-18
1 Timothy 4:1-16
Luke 13:31-35

I might mention a couple of things that make the first reading more interesting...

Friday, April 26, 2013 -- Week of 4 Easter

Robert Hunt, Priest and First Chaplain at Jamestown, 1607

Today's Readings for the Daily Office 

     (Book of Common Prayer, p. 960)

Psalms    40, 54 (morning)    //    51 (evening)

Wisdom 6:12-23

Colossians 3:1-11

Luke 7:1-17

Today Jesus heals the slave of a Roman army officer...