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  1. Monday, August 10, 2020

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    08/10/20
    11 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie
    The year was 258, and we remember the martyrdom of St. Laurence. The reading for today comes from St. Cyprian, a word on the connection between martyrdom and the Lord's Supper.
    Monday, August 10, 2020

  2. Sunday, August 9, 2020

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    08/09/20
    9 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie
    The year was 1516, and we remember the dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch. The reading is a stanza from “Christ is Risen” by Nicolas Martinez.
    Sunday, August 9, 2020

  3. Saturday, August 8, 2020

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    08/08/20
    9 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie
    The year was 1909, and we remember Mary MacKillop. The reading is from Les Murray's "Poetry and Religion."
    Saturday, August 8, 2020

  4. Friday, August 7, 2020

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    08/07/20
    10 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie
    The year was 1847, and we remember George Rapp. The reading is from Walter Brueggemann, “The Prophetic Imagination.”
    Friday, August 7, 2020

  5. Thursday, August 6, 2020

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    08/06/20
    10 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie
    The year was 1221, and we remember St. Dominic. The reading is from Aquinas' famous hymn, "Pange Lingua."
    Thursday, August 6, 2020

  6. Wednesday, August 5, 2020

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    08/05/20
    10 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie
    The year was 1912, and we remember Henri-Antoine Groues. The reading is “Dominus Illuminatio Mea” by Richard Doddridge Blackmore.
    Wednesday, August 5, 2020

  7. Tuesday, August 4, 2020

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    08/04/20
    9 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie
    The year was 1708, and we remember Francis Makemie. The reading is an excerpt from "The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
    Tuesday, August 4, 2020

  8. Monday, August 3, 2020

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    08/03/20
    10 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie
    The year was 2008, and we remember Alexander Solzhenitsyn. The reading is a poem from Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag Archipelago."
    Monday, August 3, 2020

  9. Sunday, August 2, 2020

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    08/02/20
    9 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie
    The year was 640 and Pope Severinus died. The reading is from Cynewulf's “The Ascension."
    Sunday, August 2, 2020

  10. Saturday, August 1, 2020

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    08/01/20
    10 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie
    The year was 1897 and Pope Leo XIII published his encyclical "Militantis Ecclesiae." The reading is from Philip Yancey, "The Question That Never Goes Away."
    Saturday, August 1, 2020

  11. Friday, July 31, 2020

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    07/31/20
    9 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie
    The year was 1861, and we remember Helen Barrett Montgomery. The reading is a stanza from Henry Lyte's "Abide With Me."
    Friday, July 31, 2020

  12. Thursday, July 30, 2020

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    07/30/20
    9 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie
    The year was 1419 and the First Defenestration at Prague. The reading is a poem from Czeslaw Milosz, “You Whose Name.”
    Thursday, July 30, 2020