From the Poustinia: A Daily Prayer Podcast

5 Epiphany Tuesday Morning Prayer 09.02.2021 21:31 ↓

I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed

5 Epiphany Monday Evening Prayer 08.02.2021 18:52 ↓

Let the sorrowful sighing of the prisoners come before you, and by your great might spare those who are condemned to die.

5 Epiphany Monday Morning Prayer 08.02.2021 15:22 ↓

If you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in the darkness, and your gloom be as the noonday.

5 Epiphany Sunday Evening Prayer 07.02.2021 17:16 ↓

On Sunday evenings and Feasts I’ll be reading from the Rev. Dr. J. Robert Wright’s Readings for the Daily Office from the Early Church, tonight’s selection is from Origen’s Treatise on Prayer.

5 Epiphany Sunday Morning Prayer 07.02.2021 18:04 ↓

This morning when I got the Lord’s Prayer I suddenly found myself singing a setting written by Edie Bass towards the end of the 20thC for the Centennial Celebration of St. Mary’s House, Greensboro, NC, the campus ministry which sponsored me for ordination. It’d been years since the tune entered my head, and I’m not sure if I remembered it all correctly, but it’s a great setting.

4 Epiphany Saturday Evening Prayer 06.02.2021 16:30 ↓

I believe; help my unbelief!

4 Epiphany Saturday Morning Prayer 06.02.2021 17:40 ↓

Do not be deceived; God is not mocked.

4 Epiphany Friday Evening Prayer 05.02.2021 15:06 ↓

He did not know what to say, for they were exceedingly afraid.

4 Epiphany Friday Morning Prayer 05.02.2021 18:55 ↓

I will gather yet others to him besides those already gathered.

4 Epiphany Thursday Evening Prayer 05.02.2021 13:55 ↓

“Who do you say that I am?”

Morning Prayer for the Transfiguration 06.08.2020 20:27 ↓

And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.

Evening Prayer for Monday, August 3rd, 2020 03.08.2020 14:53 ↓

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Temporary Suspension due to Illness 10.06.2020 0:59 ↓

Hello friends, I need to take a break from chanting with you while I recover from a respiratory infection I’ve been battling for 3 months now, please keep me in your prayers. -James

Evening Prayer for the second Tuesday after Pentecost 09.06.2020 16:32 ↓

Why should I be afraid in evil days, when the wickedness of those at my heels surrounds me, the wickedness of those who put their trust in their goods, and boast of their great riches?

Morning Prayer for the second Tuesday after Pentecost 09.06.2020 22:35 ↓

God makes war to cease in all the world; she breaks the bow and shatters the spear, and burns the shields with fire.

Evening Prayer for the second Monday after Pentecost 08.06.2020 15:38 ↓

As the deer longs for the water-brooks, so longs my soul for you, O God.

Morning Prayer for the second Monday after Pentecost 08.06.2020 20:59 ↓

Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?

Morning Prayer for Trinity Sunday 07.06.2020 29:40 ↓

The Father is made of none, neither created, nor begotten. The Son is of the Father alone, not made, nor created, but begotten. The Holy Ghost is of the Father and of the Son, neither made, nor created, nor begotten, but proceeding.

Evening Prayer for the Eve of Trinity Sunday 06.06.2020 20:54 ↓

This people honours me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me; in vain do they worship me, teaching human precepts as doctrines.