Author Archives: Steve Benner

Antiphon https://tinyurl.com/2p95hm74 Of you my heart has spoken: Seek his face.It is your face, O Lord, that I seek;hide not your face from me. Psalm 27 Gracious God,our sins are too heavy to carry,too real to hide,and too deep to undo.Forgive what our lips tremble to name,what our hearts can no longer bear,and what hasContinue reading “Oremus for Wednesday, March 15, 2023”

Fannie Lou HamerFannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) was born in Mississippi in 1917. Starting at the age of six, Hamer, the youngest child of a sharecropper family, picked cotton. She was only able to attend school until the age of 13 because her family needed her labor. She married Perry Hamer at the age of 27,Continue reading “Oremus for Tuesday, March 14, 2023”

Antiphon https://tinyurl.com/4m8ka32t I will sing to the Lord who has been bountiful with me,sing psalms to the name of the Lord Most High. Psalm 13 Eternal God, our judge and redeemer,we confess that we have tried to hide from you,for we have done wrong.We have lived for ourselves,and apart from you.We have turned from ourContinue reading “Oremus for Monday, March 13, 2023”

Antiphon Ant. The sparrow has found herself a home, * and the turtledove a nest in which to lay her young: at your altars, O Lord of hosts, my King and my God! Blessed are they who dwell in your house, they shall praise you for ever and e ver.V. How lovely is your dwellingContinue reading “Oremus for Sunday, March 12, 2023”

You must rejoice, my son,for your brother was dead and has come to life;he was lost and is found. Luke 15 O Lord our God,you call us to work for a worldwhere all will be fed and have dignity,but we find ourselves distracted by our own desires.You call us to seek justice and peace,but weContinue reading “Oremus for Saturday, March 11, 2023”

Harriet TubmanSlave births were recorded under property, not as persons with names; but we know that Harriet Ross, sometime during 1820 on a Maryland Chesapeake Bay plantation, was the sixth of eleven children born to Ben Ross and Harriet Green. Although her parents were loving and they enjoyed a cheerful family life inside their cabin,Continue reading “Oremus for Friday, March 10, 2023”

Gregory of NyssaGregory of Nyssa was born at Caesarea in what is now Turkey around the year 330, the child of an aristocratic Christian family. Unlike his elder brother Basil, he was academically undistinguished, but ultimately proved to be the most original of the group of the theologians known as the Cappadocian Fathers. He wasContinue reading “Oremus for Thursday, March 9, 2023”

Antiphon https://tinyurl.com/y74x99eu Within your will, O Lord, all things are established,and there is none that can resist your will.For you have made all things, the heaven and the earth,and all that is held within the circle of heaven;you are the Lord of all. Esther 4 Gracious God,our sins are too heavy to carry,too real toContinue reading “Oremus for Wednesday, March 8, 2023”

Perpetua and Her CompanionsPerpetua, a young woman of twenty-two, her slave Felicity, and three men, all recently baptised, were thrown to the beasts in the arena in Carthage in 203. A contemporary diary details the events of their sufferings and witnesses to their willingness to die in order to fulfil their following of Jesus. TheContinue reading “Oremus for Tuesday, March 7, 2023”

Antiphon https://tinyurl.com/kstdbwh2 Look toward the Lord and be radiant;let your faces not be abashed. Psalm 34 Eternal God, our judge and redeemer,we confess that we have tried to hide from you,for we have done wrong.We have lived for ourselves,and apart from you.We have turned from our neighbors,and refused to bear the burdens of others.We have ignoredContinue reading “Oremus for Monday, March 6, 2023”