Author Archives: Steve Benner

St Augustine of CanterburyAugustine was prior of the monastery of St Andrew in Rome. In 596, at the instigation of Pope Gregory the Great, he was dispatched as the leader of a group of forty monks to re-evangelise the English Church. Augustine appears not to have been a particularly confident person, and in Gaul heContinue reading “Oremus for Wednesday, May 26, 2021”

The Venerable BedeBede was born in Northumbria around the year 670. When he was seven years old, his family gave him to the monastery of St Peter and St Paul at Wearmouth. He then moved to Jarrow, where he lived as a monk for the rest of his life. Although it seems he never travelledContinue reading “Oremus for Tuesday, May 25, 2021”

Nicolaus CopernicusBorn in 1473, Nicolaus Copernicus first studied law and medicine before serving as a cleric under the direction of his uncle, the Bishop of Warmia (in northeastern Poland). Copernicus first set forth his heliocentric theory of astronomy in a small work called the Commentariolus, which was not published until 1878. His argument that theContinue reading “Oremus for Monday, May 24, 2021”

The Day of PentecostFor a form of worship in the home based on today’s lessons in the Revised Common Lectionary, go to https://blogs.elca.org/worship/4143/ Antiphon 1 Ant. The Spirit of the Lord * has filled the whole world, alleluia; and that which contains all things, knows every language spoken by men, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.V. Let GodContinue reading “Oremus for Sunday, May 23, 2021”

Antiphon https://tinyurl.com/2afzv85h The Spirit of the Lord has filled the whole worldand that which contains all thingsunderstands what is said, alleluia. Wisdom 1 Almighty God,to whom all hearts are open,all desires, known,and from whom no secrets are hid:Cleanse the thoughts of our heartsby the inspiration of your Holy Spirit,that we may perfectly love youand worthilyContinue reading “Oremus for Saturday, May 22, 2021”

Antiphon https://tinyurl.com/tf6eyvt4 We will ring out our joy at your saving helpand exult in the name of our God. Psalm 20 Almighty God,to whom all hearts are open,all desires, known,and from whom no secrets are hid:Cleanse the thoughts of our heartsby the inspiration of your Holy Spirit,that we may perfectly love youand worthily magnify yourContinue reading “Oremus for Friday, May 21, 2021”

Antiphon https://tinyurl.com/u9n72yrw 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. Cf. Esther 4 Almighty God,to whom all hearts are open,all desires, known,andContinue reading “Oremus for Thursday, May 20, 2021”

Antiphon https://tinyurl.com/y4dwv48e We have come to know and to believein the love that God has for us. 1 John 4 Almighty God,to whom all hearts are open,all desires, known,and from whom no secrets are hid:Cleanse the thoughts of our heartsby the inspiration of your Holy Spirit,that we may perfectly love youand worthily magnify your holyContinue reading “Oremus for Wednesday, May 19, 2021”

Antiphon https://tinyurl.com/2mak88dw The Spirit of the Lord has filled the whole worldand that which contains all thingsunderstands what is said, alleluia. Wisdom 1 Almighty God,to whom all hearts are open,all desires, known,and from whom no secrets are hid:Cleanse the thoughts of our heartsby the inspiration of your Holy Spirit,that we may perfectly love youand worthilyContinue reading “Oremus for Tuesday, May 18, 2021”

Thurgood MarshallThurgood Marshall is best known as the Supreme Court Justice and early advocate for pressing the nation’s courts in matters of civil rights. He was also a lifelong Episcopalian. Born in 1908 in Baltimore, Maryland, to a Pullman car porter and a schoolteacher, Marshall was the grandson of a freed slave. He attended BaltimoreContinue reading “Oremus for Monday, May 17, 2021”