{"id":3497,"date":"2022-08-23T15:16:50","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T20:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/?p=3497"},"modified":"2022-08-23T15:16:50","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T20:16:50","slug":"st-albans-daily-august-16th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/?p=3497","title":{"rendered":"St. Alban&#8217;s Daily &#8211; August 16th"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-regular\"><table><tbody><tr><\/tr><tr><td><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"214\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/files.constantcontact.com\/cfd132e6001\/383fe435-944f-4616-9706-d0e4a2e760f0.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br><strong>St Alban&#8217;s Episcopal Church<\/strong><br><strong>Bolivar, Missouri<\/strong><br><strong>Tuesday, August 16, 2022<\/strong><br><br><strong>Psalm 103 Bless the Lord, O my soul<\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"5\" height=\"5\" src=\"https:\/\/imgssl.constantcontact.com\/letters\/images\/sys\/S.gif\" alt=\"\"><br><strong>Psalm 103:1-8<\/strong><br>Bless the Lord, O my soul, <br>and all that is within me, bless his holy Name. <br>Bless the Lord, O my soul, <br>and forget not all his benefits. <br>He forgives all your sins and heals all your infirmities; <br>He redeems your life from the grave and crowns you with mercy and loving- kindness;<br>He satisfies you with good things, and your youth is renewed like an eagle&#8217;s. <br>The Lord executes righteousness and judgment for all who are oppressed.<br>He made his ways known to Moses and his works to the children of Israel.<br>The Lord is full of compassion and mercy, slow to anger and of great kindness.<br><br>It is also\u00a0<strong>Lloyd Hensley&#8217;s<\/strong>\u00a0birthday today, for whom we give thanks!<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"5\" height=\"10\" src=\"https:\/\/imgssl.constantcontact.com\/letters\/images\/sys\/S.gif\" alt=\"\"><br><br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"5\" height=\"5\" src=\"https:\/\/imgssl.constantcontact.com\/letters\/images\/sys\/S.gif\" alt=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"242\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/files.constantcontact.com\/cfd132e6001\/139217b6-f4c6-41b1-b689-b8158f282891.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br>Have you noticed how many of the psalms begin or end with this:\u00a0<em>Bless the Lord &#8211; Praise the Lord &#8211; Give thanks to the Lord?<\/em> Do you think that their times, their personal circumstances, their political or religious realities were any easier than ours? Is there always a reason to<em>\u00a0&#8220;praise the Lord?&#8221;<\/em> Why do Jews still sing these in worship &#8211; even after the holocaust?<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"5\" height=\"10\" src=\"https:\/\/imgssl.constantcontact.com\/letters\/images\/sys\/S.gif\" alt=\"\"><br>                                                       <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"5\" height=\"5\" src=\"https:\/\/imgssl.constantcontact.com\/letters\/images\/sys\/S.gif\" alt=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"130\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/files.constantcontact.com\/cfd132e6001\/bdf6ab9e-862a-491f-b7dc-0d9f62c96aa2.jpg\" alt=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"5\" height=\"10\" src=\"https:\/\/imgssl.constantcontact.com\/letters\/images\/sys\/S.gif\" alt=\"\"><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St Alban&#8217;s Episcopal ChurchBolivar, MissouriTuesday, August 16, 2022 Psalm 103 Bless the Lord, O my soulPsalm 103:1-8Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy Name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits. He forgives all your sins and heals all your infirmities; He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3501,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3497\/revisions\/3501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}