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RIPENING by Wendell Berry The longer we are together the larger death grows around us. How many we know by now who are dead! We, who were young, now count the cost of having been. And yet as we know the dead we grow familiar with the world. We, who were young and loved each other...
UNTITLED by Rumi The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along. Good evening and welcome to Evening Prayer The Lord almighty grant us a quiet night and a perfect end. Amen. Our help is...
STARLINGS IN WINTER by Mary Oliver Chunky and noisy, but with stars in their black feathers, they spring from the telephone wire and instantly they are acrobats in the freezing wind. And now, in the theater of air, they swing over buildings, dipping and rising; they float like one stippled star that opens, becomes for a...
Hello, everyone. Over the past fifteen months I have recorded several ‘Orgelbuchlein’ chorale preludes of J.S. Bach. They are particularly well-suited to our organ at Cornerstone. We open tonight with the prelude based on ‘Vater unser im Himmelreich’ (‘Our Father who art in heaven’), one of Luther’s greatest hymns. The original hymn is in nine stanzas,...
Good evening, everyone. I’m writing Friday evening’s prayers earlier than usual this week, as we will be away for a couple of days visiting my father-in-law. It’s Sunday afternoon and the beautiful sunshine is streaming through the window. What a joy to see the beauty of God’s world on a day like today! And so, we...
Welcome to yet another sunny dawn! Welcome, friends and strangers to our morning prayer on this first Friday of what has been, thus far, a beautiful, flaming June. Receive my gratitude Lord for the beauty of this day and the unfolding promise of fresh vistas, new thoughts, bright colours, good words and lively music to ignite...
A reading from Peter’s first letter 8 Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. 9 Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling. 10 Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms. 11 If anyone speaks, they should do...
Your Words Reveal Your Heart ‘… Your speech betrays you.’ Matthew 26: 73 NKJV The words you speak will give you away every time. It happened to Peter. On the night Jesus was arrested and all his disciples scattered, Peter stayed close enough to see what was happening-but not close enough to be identified with him....
TALKING TO MY SON BEFORE SLEEP by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer “Which is bigger,” he asks me, “the ocean or sky,” and I want to tell him the heart, which even today has been practicing vastness, is learning to say yes in new languages, learning to stretch beyond the center, beyond the lips, learning to be more...
Good morning, Cornerstone friends. It is June and we are enjoying some warm weather at last. Everything is green including now all the altar frontals and colours in the parish churches, for we are in that long period referred to as Trinity. To you, O Lord I lift my soul; O my God, in you I...
UNTITLED by Leonard Cohen Any system you contrive without us will be brought down We warned you before and nothing that you built has stood Hear it as you lean over you blueprint Hear it as you roll up your sleeve Hear it once again Any system you contrive without us will be brought down You...
SONNET 139 by Edna St. Vincent Millay I must not die of pity; I must live; Grow strong, not sicken; eat, digest my food, That it may build me, and in doing good To blood and bone, broaden the sensitive Fastidious pale perception: we contrive Lean comfort for the starving, who intrude Upon them with our...
Prayer for the Day “In my journeying with you, may I never lose my sense of direction, never lose sight of the landmark towards which I travel. And should cloud or rain obscure my vision, may I draw closer to you, so that my feet may tread in your footsteps, your words be my encouragement, and...
Dear Friends, On this Trinity Sunday, we begin with an improvisation on the wonderful Irish tune ‘St Patrick’ commonly used for the hymn ‘I bind into myself today the strong name of the Trinity’ (St Patrick’s Breastplate). The melody appears in the ‘Petrie Collection’ of Irish music, edited by Stanford in 1903. Now we will hear St Patrick’s Prayer,...
Good evening, everyone. As we approach Trinity Sunday I’m going to start this evening’s prayer time with a hymn of praise to God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The words are below to enable you to join in if you wish. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VLLghU0_5I 1 Born in song! God’s people have always been singing. Born in song! Hearts...
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