The Vigil for Pentecost XIV

Let my prayer be set forth in thy sight as the incense, and let the lifting up of my hands be an evening sacrifice. - Psalm 141:2

As my Sundays are now taken with another activity, we are replacing the Sunday Vespers with a Saturday Vigil, the traditional name for worship that takes place in anticipation of the Sabbath. I thought it would be an opportunity to illustrate the stories of our hymns and sacred songs.

This week’s Sabbath is the Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost, or Prope…