Andre Walendowsky

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Husband to a wise wife; father to a special son; impressed by Jesus; appreciative of simple things; insightful sometimes, puzzled otherwise; ecumenical Anglican #SpecialNeeds #Disability #Inclusion #Diversity #Unity #Theology #Anglican #Catholic #Orthodox

Обратились создатели ИИ к Богу и стали жаловаться: – Господи, мы создали искусственный интеллект, а он оказался лживым, хитрым и безответственным! И сказал им Господь: – Вот, теперь вы меня понимаете!
Magnifica Humanitas Chapter 5: Building the Civilization of Love
Magnifica Humanitas Introduction and Chapter 1: Two Roads Ahead of Us
42. for the human family O God, you made us in your own image, and you have redeemed us through your Son Jesus Christ: Look with compassion on the whole human family; take away the arrogance and hatred which infect our hearts; break down the walls that separate us; unite us in bonds of love; and work through our struggle and confusion to accomplish your purposes on earth; that, in your good time, all nations and races may serve you in harmony around your heavenly throne; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Book of Common Prayer 2019 page 659
A long-exposure picture of Earth taken by NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman from one of the Orion spacecraft’s window after completing the translunar injection burn on April 2, 2026. Northwest Africa and Iberia are seen on the left and bottom of the globe, with the Atlantic Ocean on the center. Both aurora borealis and aurora australis (top right and bottom left) and zodiacal light (bottom right) are visible as the Earth eclipses the Sun.
B. The West Syrian-Byzantine Office … The cycle of eight daily prayer offices in the Byzantine Rite consists of the following: Vespers (at sundown) Compline (before sleep) The Midnight Office (chanted in the middle of the night or early in the morning) Matins (the longest of the day, which traditionally ends as the sun is rising) First Hour (chanted at the rising of the sun) Third Hour (chanted at the third hour of the day—approximately 9:00 AM) Sixth Hour (chanted at noon) Ninth Hour (chanted at the ninth hour of the day—approximately 3:00 PM On the great feasts of the liturgical year as well as on certain feast days (and in the Slavic tradition, on every Saturday night) there is a particularly solemn service called the All-Night Vigil that combines Vespers, Matins and First Hour, with special additions, into a single long service. This office has become known in the West through Sergei Rachmaninov's ethereal choral masterpiece All-Night Vigil. The Byzantine Vespers in particular shows the merger of cathedral and monastic elements. At its heart is a lucernarium, Vespers psalms (140, 141, 129, 116) with incensation, three readings, a litany, and blessing, to which monastic psalmody has been prefixed. The presidential prayers now bunched at the beginning of both Vespers and Orthros (Matins) were once scattered throughout the offices. The dangling doxologies that are now scattered throughout indicate the original places of these collects. The present Orthros or Matins is a compilation of four separate offices: the royal office (a brief service for the emperor celebrated in imperial monastic foundations, but really unrelated to the time of Matins), monastic nocturns, the cathedral vigil, and the morning office, which includes Lauds. C. The Benedictine Office, c. 540 … Frank C. Senn, Introduction to Christian Liturgy, 2012 Chapter 4, The Liturgy of Time, page 83
Nun in habit, wearing sunglasses, drinking an energy drink, looking at the smartphone, sitting on bleachers with others presumably watching a game. The caption says: me everyday in my ferocious pursuit of both worldly pleasures and complete union with God
FOR THE UNITY OF THE CHURCH Lord Jesus Christ, you said to your apostles, “Peace I give to you; my own peace I leave with you”: Regard not our sins, but the faith of your Church, and give to us the peace and unity of that heavenly city, where with the Father and the Holy Spirit you live and reign, now and for ever. Amen. 2019 BCP 646
FOR THE SPIRIT OF PRAYER O Almighty God, you pour out on all who desire it the spirit of grace and of supplication: Deliver us, when we draw near to you, from coldness of heart and wanderings of mind, that with steadfast thoughts and kindled affections we may worship you in spirit and in truth; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 2019 BCP 647
THE CHURCH 1. FOR THE UNIVERSAL CHURCH O God of unchangeable power and eternal light: Look favorably on your whole Church, that wonderful and sacred mystery; by the effectual working of your providence, carry out in tranquility the plan of salvation; let the whole world see and know that things which were cast down are being raised up, and things which had grown old are being made new, and that all things are being brought to their perfection by him through whom all things were made, your Son Jesus Christ our Lord; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. 2. FOR THE UNIVERSAL CHURCH William Laud Gracious Father, we pray for your holy Catholic Church. Fill it with all truth, in all truth with all peace. Where it is corrupt, purify it; where it is in error, direct it; where in anything it is amiss, reform it. Where it is right, strengthen it; where it is in want, provide for it; where it is divided, reunite it; for the sake of Jesus Christ your Son our Savior. Amen. 3. FOR THE UNITY OF THE CHURCH Lord Jesus Christ, you said to your apostles, “Peace I give to you; my own peace I leave with you”: Regard not our sins, but the faith of your Church, and give to us the peace and unity of that heavenly city, where with the Father and the Holy Spirit you live and reign, now and for ever. Amen. 2019 BCP 646
Medieval Wheeled Cannon wooden project, assembled, with 5 ping-pong ball projectiles.
Advent wreath with Hope (purple), Peace (purple), Joy (rose), Love (purple), and Christ (white) candles lit (in this order).
Supper at Emmaus (Cena in Emmaus), 1601, by Caravaggio. The artist aptly portrays the man in the center beardless, and as one recognizes the man is Jesus breaking the bread, one is in effect participating in the revealing as in Luke 24:13-35.
Advent wreath with Hope (purple), Peace (purple), Joy (rose), and Love (purple) candles lit (in this order).
The Ten Commandements For All God's Children Art by Natasha Kennedy Text by Harold L. Senkbeil
Advent wreath with Joy candle lit.
Supplemental Canticles for Worship 1 Magna et mirabilia The Song of the Redeemed Especially suitable for use in Advent and Easter O ruler of the universe, Lord God, great deeds are they that you have done, surpassing human understanding. Your ways are ways of righteousness and truth, O King of all the ages. Who can fail to do you homage, Lord, and sing the praises of your Name? For you only are the Holy One. All nations will draw near and fall down before you, because your just and holy works have been revealed. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit; as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. Revelation 15:3-4 Daily Office · Supplemental Canticles 2019 Book of Common Prayer 79
Supplemental Eucharistic Texts Seasonal Greetings The opening Acclamation may be replaced by a greeting appropriate to the season or the occasion, such as the following For Advent Celebrant Surely the Lord is coming soon. People Amen. Come Lord Jesus! Revelation 22:20 The Holy Eucharist · Supplemental Texts - Seasonal Greetings 2019 Book of Common Prayer 145
Seasonal Antiphons Advent Our King and Savior now draws near: O come, let us adore him. Daily Office · Daily Morning Prayer 2019 Book of Common Prayer 29
Opening Sentences of Scripture Advent Therefore stay awake—for you do not know when the master of the house will come, in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning—lest he come suddenly and find you asleep. Mark 13:35-36 Daily Office · Daily Evening Prayer 2019 Book of Common Prayer 54
Opening Sentences of Scripture Advent In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Isaiah 40:3 Daily Office · Daily Morning Prayer 2019 Book of Common Prayer 27
Collects of the Christian Year Advent The First Sunday in Advent Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness, and put on the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life in which your Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty to judge both the living and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal; through him who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. 2019 BCP 598
The Second Collect, for Peace. O God, who art the author of peace and lover of concord, in knowledge of whom standeth our eternal life, whose service is perfect freedom: Defend us thy humble servants in all assaults of our enemies, that we, surely trusting in thy defence, may not fear the power of any adversaries, through the might of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. MORNING PRAYER 14 1662 BCP-IE
Henry Nouwen (24 January 1932 · 21 September 1996) and Fred Rogers (20 March 1928 · 27 February 2003), taken circa July 1992, ages 60 and 64 respectively.
Hot Fuzz DVD cover
The Apostles' Creed: I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth. I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord. He was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried. He descended to the dead. On the third day he rose again. He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.
Gracious Father, we pray for your holy Catholic Church. Fill it with all truth, in all truth with all peace. Where it is corrupt, purify it; where it is in error, direct it; where in anything it is amiss, reform it. Where it is right, strengthen it; where it is in want, provide for it; where it is divided, reunite it; for the sake of Jesus Christ your Son our Savior. Amen. 2019 BCP 646
Grave Naiskos of an Enthroned Woman with an Attendant, circa 100 BC. Alternate Title: Gravestone of a Woman with Her Attendant. On this funerary marble relief, a woman reaches out to lift the lid of a thin box held by an attendant. She sits on an elaborate, high-backed chair with a turned leg decorated with lions' paws and an arm support in the form of an eagle. She also wears snake bracelets, presumably gold, on her upper and lower arms. The thin open box held by the attendant raises several questions. The two holes apparent on its base are evidence of an ancient repair, perhaps in the form of two metal pins intended to hold a now lost marble component in place. On view at Getty Villa, Gallery 111, The Hellenistic World.
Wallace & Gromit: the Curse of the Were-rabbit DVD case.
Dorothy Day and Mother Teresa seated and holding hands in conversation at Maryhouse, New York, June 1979.
Battle of Britain (1969), The Blue Max (1966), Air America (1990), The Aviator (2004), Flyboys (2006), and Memphis Belle (1990) DVD covers, stacked up.
Battle of Britain (1969) DVD cover.
Book titled Giving Church Another Chance, Finding New Meaning in Spiritual Practices, by Todd D. Hunter, foreword by Scot McKnight.
Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Thessalonians, 5, 23.
A Reading from Holy Scripture: You keep them in perfect peace whose minds are stayed on you, because they trust in you. Trust in the Lord for ever, for the Lord God is an everlasting rock. Isaiah, chapter 26, verses 3 and 4, traditional prayer book language.
Prayer labyrinth made of stones
Magnificat Mary's Song of Praise And Mary said, My Soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for he has looked with favor on the lowliness of his servant. Surely, from now on all generations will call me blessed; for the Mighty One has done great things for me, and holy is his name. His mercy is for those who fear him from generation to generation. He has shown strength with his arm; he has scattered the proud in the thoughts of their hearts. He has brought down the powerful from their thrones, and lifted up the lowly; he has filled the hungry with good things, and sent the rich away empty. He has helped his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy, according to the promise he made to our ancestors, to Abraham and to his ancestors forever.
1662 Book of Common Prayer cover.