Above: The New Jerusalem
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Blessed Lord, who caused all holy scriptures to be written for our learning:
Grant us so to hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them,
that we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life,
which you have given us in our Savior Jesus Christ;
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
–The Book of Common Prayer (1979), page 236
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The Assigned Readings:
Daniel 4:1-37/3:31-4:34 (November 24)
Protestant versification varies from the Jewish, Roman Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox pattern in places.
Daniel 5:1-30 (November 25)
Daniel 6:1-28/5:31-6:29 (November 26)
Protestant versification varies from the Jewish, Roman Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox pattern in places.
Psalm 110 (Morning–November 24)
Psalm 62 (Morning–November 25)
Psalm 13 (Morning–November 26)
Psalms 66 and 23 (Evening–November 24)
Psalms 73 and 8 (Evening–November 25)
Psalms 36 and 5 (Evening–November 26)
Revelation 21:1-8 (November 24)
Revelation 21:9-22 (November 25)
Revelation 22:1-21 (November 26)
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Some Related Posts:
Daniel 5:
http://ordinarytimedevotions.wordpress.com/2011/06/01/week-of-proper-29-wednesday-year-1/
Daniel 6:
http://ordinarytimedevotions.wordpress.com/2011/06/01/week-of-proper-29-thursday-year-1/
Revelation 21:
http://lenteaster.wordpress.com/2012/06/15/twenty-ninth-day-of-easter-fifth-sunday-of-easteryear-c/
http://lenteaster.wordpress.com/2012/06/16/thirty-sixth-day-of-easter-sixth-sunday-of-easter-year-c/
Revelation 22:
http://lenteaster.wordpress.com/2012/06/16/thirty-sixth-day-of-easter-sixth-sunday-of-easter-year-c/
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The king at your right hand, O Lord,
shall smite down kings in the day of his wrath.
In all his majesty, he shall judge among the nations,
smiting heads over all the wide earth.
He shall drink from the brook beside the way;
therefore shall he lift high his head.
–Psalm 110:5-7, The Book of Common Prayer (2004)
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The fictional stories in Daniel 4-6 are morality tales about kings who opposed God, sometimes out of hubris. Two of the three med bad ends; the other changed his ways. Hubris, of course, is that which goes before the fall. It constitutes making oneself one’s own idol.
Glory, of course, belongs to God. Thus, in Revelation 21-22, God and the Lamb (Jesus) are the Temple and the origin of light. This is beautiful and metaphorical imagery which should influence how we who call ourselves Christians order our priorities. God–specifically Christ–should occupy the focal point of our attentions and affections.
We are, as a psalmist said, like grass–grass which bears the Image of God and is slightly lower than the angels–but grass nevertheless. So may we think neither too highly nor too lowly of ourselves and each other.
KENNETH RANDOLPH TAYLOR
JUNE 5, 2013 COMMON ERA
THE FEAST OF ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY, UNITED STATES ATTORNEY GENERAL AND SENATOR
THE FEAST OF SAINT BONIFACE OF MAINZ, ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP
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