MONDAY, JUNE 30
I'm finally getting the hang of the DSL here. It is faster than mine at home, but very quirky. I think if I were closer to the hub I might not have as many problems with it.
It is a good 15 degrees cooler this summer here in Tombstone than it was last year. I'm still hot and bothered, but it is mainly frustration tempered with exhaustion. Last night I slept for 10 hours. It is probably because I drove the whole way, after having no sleep the previous night. Doc was celebrating the fact that Rumsfeld was at the spa. She was obnoxious, keeping me up all night, visiting. She would not allow the other cats into the bedroom all night.
CELEBRATING THE LIFE OF ST. PAUL
Today the Catholic Church begins an entire year of celebrating the life of St. Paul. He was believed to have been born about 2000 years ago. (Cool). They are calling it The Year of St. Paul. Here in Tombstone, Just 2 blocks from St. Paul's Episcopal Church, I think about how Endicott Peabody would be celebrating the year. St. Paul was his favorite.
THE FEAST OF ST. PETER & ST. PAUL
St. Augustine (Sermon 295):
Both apostles share the same feast day, for these two were one; and even though they suffered on different days, they were as one. Peter went first, and Paul followed. And so we celebrate this day made holy for us by the apostles' blood. Let us embrace what they believed, their life, their labors, their sufferings, their preaching, and their confession of faith.
FIRST READING: Ezekiel 34:11-16
(The LORD God will be a shepherd to Israel, and they shall be His flock.)
PSALM 87
(The foundations of Zion, the city of God, rest upon the holy hills. Of many nations it shall be said: In Zion were they born.)
EPISTLE: 2 Timothy 4:1-8
(Paul writes: "I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith.")
THE HOLY GOSPEL: John 21:15-19
(Jesus, after rising from the dead, said to Peter: "When you were young, you went where you would, but when you are old, you will go where you are taken." And by these words, He foretold Peter's death. He then said, "Follow me.")
There is something ironic about the feast of St. Peter & St. Paul being celebrated today. My regular readers may know that one of my books is a transcription of the diary of Endicott Peabody, who was in charge of building St. Paul's Episcopal church here in Tombstone in 1882. He was a devotee of St. Paul, which is why he named the church, the first Protestant church in the Arizona Territory, after Paul. From the Book of Common Prayer(The LORD God will be a shepherd to Israel, and they shall be His flock.)
PSALM 87
(The foundations of Zion, the city of God, rest upon the holy hills. Of many nations it shall be said: In Zion were they born.)
EPISTLE: 2 Timothy 4:1-8
(Paul writes: "I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith.")
THE HOLY GOSPEL: John 21:15-19
(Jesus, after rising from the dead, said to Peter: "When you were young, you went where you would, but when you are old, you will go where you are taken." And by these words, He foretold Peter's death. He then said, "Follow me.")
Almighty God, whose blessed apostles Peter and Paul glorified you by their martyrdom: Grant that your Church, instructed by their teaching and example, and knit together in unity by your Spirit, may ever stand firm upon the one foundation, which is Jesus Christ our Lord; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.
I think we need these 'feast days' to remind us of what is truly important in life - service in Christ. Do we have the courage of a Peter or a Paul? I know I don't. I wish I did, but I'm a realist. Yes, I would die for my faith. I don't want to, but my life belongs to my Lord and Savior. I go where He wants me to go.I need to rememeber that when I complain about things.
Died: Bishop Gavin Dunbar, 1547; Cardinal Baronius, eminent ecclesiastical writer, 1607, Rome; Alexander Brume, poet, 1666; Archibald Campbell, ninth Earl of Argyle, beheaded, 1685, Edinburgh; Sir Thomas Pope Blount, miscellaneous writer, 1697, Tittenhanger; Dr. Thomas Edwards, learned divine, 1785, Nuneaton; Richard Parker, head of the naval mutiny at the Nore, hanged, 1797; Rev. Henry Kett, drowned, 1825; Sultan Mahmoud, of Turkey, 1839; James Silk Buckingham, miscellaneous writer, 1855.
Feast Day: St. Paul the Apostle, 68. St. Martial, Bishop of Limoges, 3rd century.
Feast Day: St. Paul the Apostle, 68. St. Martial, Bishop of Limoges, 3rd century.
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