Daily Archives: June 20, 2026

A prayer for the Feast of Saint Fáelán (Fillan)

Almighty Father who guided Saint Fáelán from Ireland to Scotland to live a life of prayer, hospitality, and quiet devotion: by your Spirit teach us to walk in his footsteps by embracing simplicity, serving others with love and grace, and trusting steadfastly in Your divine plan, through Jesus Christ our Lord, who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, ever one God. Amen.

Posted in --Ireland, --Scotland, Church History, Spirituality/Prayer

A prayer for the day from the Church of England

Faithful Creator,
whose mercy never fails:
by your Spirit deepen our faithfulness to you
and to your living Word,
Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen (slightly edited; KSH).

Posted in Spirituality/Prayer

From the Morning Bible Readings

Now when Jesus had finished these sayings, he went away from Galilee and entered the region of Judea beyond the Jordan; and large crowds followed him, and he healed them there.

And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one’s wife for any cause?” He answered, “Have you not read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ”˜For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder.” They said to him, “Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce, and to put her away?” He said to them, “For your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for unchastity, and marries another, commits adultery.”

The disciples said to him, “If such is the case of a man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry.” But he said to them, “Not all men can receive this saying, but only those to whom it is given. For there are eunuchs who have been so from birth, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. He who is able to receive this, let him receive it.”

–Matthew 19:1-12

Posted in Theology: Scripture