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Try a different Lenten fast.
Give up the snooze button and offer the first moments of your day to God. A short prayer in the morning can shape the whole day and build a habit of faith. Small sacrifices can lead to lasting joy. ✝️⏰🌿
https://young-catholics.com/984/lenten-activities-fast-from-hitting-the-snooze-button/
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Try a different Lenten fast.
Give up the snooze button and offer the first moments of your day to God. A short prayer in the morning can shape the whole day and build a habit of faith. Small sacrifices can lead to lasting joy. ✝️⏰🌿
https://young-catholics.com/984/lenten-activities-fast-from-hitting-the-snooze-button/
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Try a different Lenten fast.
Give up the snooze button and offer the first moments of your day to God. A short prayer in the morning can shape the whole day and build a habit of faith. Small sacrifices can lead to lasting joy. ✝️⏰🌿
https://young-catholics.com/984/lenten-activities-fast-from-hitting-the-snooze-button/
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The #Gospel reading for 14 October 2025 is Matthew 10:16-23. The parable of the sheep among wolves is familiar to most #Christians as inspiration for both perseverance & spreading the Good News of #Jesus our great Redeemer. I’ve heard this passage cited as proof that unpopular people (or people who espouse viewpoints that others disagree with) are on God’s side & doing the work/will of the Divine. Perhaps they are. At least, they may be right up to the point where they meet violence, persecution, anger, & hate in kind.
Once they, or we, start hating & hurting others, we can all be pretty sure we are no longer doing God’s work. Nowhere in this verse are we told to meet violence, be it verbal, legal, or physical, with violence. Quite the opposite, in fact. We are told not to worry about what we should say (v. 19) & “if they persecute you in one village, leave there & go to the next.” (v. 23) #DPB #Green #Episcopal #MorningPrayer #Peace
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The #EpiscopalChurch remembers Philip, disciple, evangelist, & deacon on 11 October. So today’s #Gospel reading is Luke 24:13-27 (rather than Matthew). In these passages, the disciples tell a fellow traveler about what has happened to #Jesus from his arrest through crucifixion & the discovery of the empty tomb. They don’t recognize who they are speaking with, even when he describes how Scripture pointed to everything that had occurred.
For me today’s message is that we don’t always realize when God is speaking to us. The Divine rarely shows up wearing a name tag or a t-shirt saying “God” Just because we do not recognize the Divine, doesn’t mean that they are not present & speaking/teaching us. This passage reminds us that the Divine can be anywhere, speaking through anyone. Our challenge is to hear God whenever & wherever God speaks.
How will you hear God today?
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Good morning! The #Gospel for 8 October 2025 is Matthew 9:9-17. Since I am following the #green #MorningPrayer in A Disciple’s Prayer Book #DPB I am also using the #FirstNations version of the #NewTestament What I’ve discovered is that this version, combined with my #SBLStudyBible (an #NRSVUE version), are expanding my view of the lessons & their application to my daily life.
What stands out today is the difference a word makes. The #Indigenous NT refers to “outcasts” rather than the “sinners” of other versions. Maybe it’s because I just finished the sections on Hinduism in world religions, but I find the word choice telling. Outcast implies people shunned or ignored by society, that is a societal choice. Sinners, otoh, implies individuals who are separated from God by choice & their own actions. Additionally, the First Nations version refers to the Pharisees as “the Separated Ones”. My take-away is that Faith calls us to return/restore community rather than divide us.
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Getting a late start today but still doing the #green #MorningPrayer fro #DPB The #Gospel reading for 6 October 2025 is Matthew 8:28-34 This is the story of 2 men possessed by demons, which #Jesus casts out but allows to enter a herd of pigs that promptly run into the water & drown.
At first, it seems like Jesus does a kindness for demons that harms humans (probably not Jewish people, since they were raising swine which are unclean according to Jewish dietary laws) & animals (does uncleanliness mean they are not innocent creatures created by God?). Why would he do that? It’s a question people have wrestled with for years: why does God allow bad things to happen (to good people)?
Upon reflection, these verses seem to indicate that sometimes being kind to our enemies is painful for us. Being merciful in this world can hurt. On a deeper level, if God is that kind & merciful to demons, how much more kindness & mercy will those who follow God in faith receive in God’s presence?
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Starting off 5 October 2025 with the #green #MorningPrayer in A Disciple’s Prayer Book #DPB & I have to admit, nothing in today’s #Gospel reading (Matthew 8:18-27) particularly stands out or speaks to me. I suppose now I know how preachers feel when asked to give sermon or homily on a Sunday when they’ve “got nothing”.
It’s easy to forget that all inspiration comes from the Divine, even the smallest sparks (like a social media post or toot). For me, inspiration is a constant; I often have more ideas than I can use. When those ideas dry up, I don’t quite know what to do. Sometimes I can push through by focusing on one aspect of a thing but it’s not my best work. Lately I’ve learned just to put things down, to let them go then come back later. Reading this passage, I wonder if that is how Jesus felt? People crowded around him, wanting, & he had run out of ideas. So he went away & took a nap, although even that was interrupted. I’m not stilling storms, but I found some inspiration.
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Being a #liturgical #rebel today – used the Collect for St Hilda at #MorningPrayer today on #StHilda's Day despite LFF saying it's not her feast until tomorrow!
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Togo likes being with me during #MorningPrayer.
#ParrotsOfMastodon #SenegalParrot #birb #Parrot #PetParrots -
"The dawn from on high shall break upon us, to shine on those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death, and to guide our feet into the way of peace."
#Zechariah #MorningPrayer #ThinSpaces #ThoughtsFromSwallowBarn -
Some time off this morning from #Advent busyness. At the frozen pond at #StIves #Bingley as 'the dawn from on high breaks upon us.' #MorningPrayer #ThinSpaces #ThoughtsFromSwallowBarn
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"The disciples woke him and said to him, ‘Teacher, don’t you care if we drown?’" (Mark 4:38): do you doubt God will be with you when it feels like you're drowning?
Giving thanks for #Lectio365 and the daily #Wisdom. #MorningPrayer #ThoughtsFromSwallowBarn
#Lectio365 is a free daily devotional resource that helps you #Pray the #Bible every day.
https://lectio365.24-7prayer.com/share/devotional/2022-11-24/day -
Today we celebrate the life of John Wimber, founder of the #vineyard #church movement. #Lectio365 reflects on his book, Equipping the Saints, where "John Wimber wrote: 'We should always come to #worship prepared for an audience with the King. And we should expect the #Spirit of #God to work among us. ...For Wimber, worship was up close and personal, for God is always present."
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#thoughtsfromswallowbarn https://lectio365.24-7prayer.com/share/devotional/2022-11-17/day -
#introductions continued... I love #forests and the #greatoutdoors in general, so it was good to get out for a #contemplative walk earlier at #StIvesBingley for #morningprayer using #lectio365. Father, help me to live this day to the full, being true to you, in every way. Jesus, help me to give myself away to others, being kind to everyone I meet. Spirit, help me to love the lost, proclaiming Christ in all I do and say. #amen #thinspaces #thoughtsfromswallowbarn