Lectionary Reading Day of Pentecost Pt 2 Collect. Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and kindle in them the fire of your love. Send forth your Spirit and they shall be created. And you shall renew the face of the earth. O God, who by the light of the Holy Spirit didContinue reading “Pentecost Part 2”
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Day of Pentecost 31 May
Lectionary Reading: Day of Pentecost Introduction: Pentecost is the Jewish Festival of Weeks which falls 50 days after Passover. At this festival the first-fruits of the cereal harvest were presented to God in recognition that the whole of the harvest belonged to him. It was on this day that the Holy Spirit descended on theContinue reading “Day of Pentecost 31 May”
Easter 7 Part 2
Lectionary Reading Easter 7 24 May Part 2. Collect. Almighty and eternal God, your Son our Saviour is with you in eternal glory. Give us faith to see that, true to his promise, he is among us still, and will be with us to the end of time, who lives and reigns with you andContinue reading “Easter 7 Part 2”
Lectionary Reading Easter 7
Lectionary Reading Easter 7 24 May Collect for Sunday after Ascension: Almighty and Everlasting Father, you raised our Lord Jesus Christ to your right hand on high. As we rejoice in his exaltation, fill us with your Spirit, that we may go out into all the world and faithfully proclaim his gospel. He lives andContinue reading “Lectionary Reading Easter 7”
Ascension Day Reflection.
Collect for Ascension Day: Eternal Father, whose Son Jesus Christ, when he returned to glory, did not leave us comfortless but sent the Holy Spirit to remain with us forever; grant that the same Spirit may bring us at last to that heavenly home where Christ has gone before to prepare a place, and whereContinue reading “Ascension Day Reflection.”
Easter 6 Part 2
Lectionary Reading Easter 6 Part 2 Collect. Almighty Father, whose Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, is the light of the world: set us on fire with your Spirit of power that, in everything we think and say and do, we may proclaim the wonder of Christ’s resurrection. He lives and reigns with you and theContinue reading “Easter 6 Part 2”
Lectionary Reading Easter 6
Lectionary Reading Easter 6 17 May Collect. God our Father, you have redeemed us in your Son and given to your church the Holy Spirit, the Counsellor, to dwell with us for ever. Strengthen us by your Spirit of truth, that we may show our love for Christ by keeping his commandments, and byContinue reading “Lectionary Reading Easter 6”
Easter 5 Part 2
Lectionary Reading Easter 5 part 2 10 May Collect. Almighty and everlasting God; you are always more ready to hear than we are to pray, and give more than either we desire or deserve. Pour down upon us the abundance of your mercy, forgiving us those things of which our conscience is afraid and givingContinue reading “Easter 5 Part 2”
Lectionary Reading Easter 5
Lectionary Reading Easter 5 10 May Collect. O God, form the minds of your faithful people into a single will. Make us love what you command and desire what you have promised, that, amid all the changes of the world, our hearts may be fixed where true joys are found,; through your Son, Jesus ChristContinue reading “Lectionary Reading Easter 5”
Easter 4 (part 2)
Lectionary Reading Easter 4 B 3 May Collect for today. Almighty God, who alone can bring order to the unruly wills and passions of the sinful, give us grace to love what you command and desire what you promise, that in all the changes and chances of this world, our hearts may surely there beContinue reading “Easter 4 (part 2)”
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