Collect
Lord of all power and might, the author and giver of all good things: Graft in our hearts the love of your Name; increase in us true religion; nourish us with all goodness; and bring forth in us the fruit of good works; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and [...]
Posts from ‘August, 2009’
13th Sunday after Pentecost
Augustine, Bishop of Hippo
Collect
Lord God, the light of the minds that know you, the life of the souls that love you, and the strength of the hearts that serve you: Help us, following the example of your servant Augustine of Hippo, so to know you that we may truly love you, and so to love you that we [...]
Thomas Gallaudet with Henry Winter Syle
Collect
O Loving God, whose will it is that everyone should come to you and be saved: We bless your holy Name for your servants Thomas Gallaudet and Henry Winter Syle whose labors with and for those who are deaf we commemorate today, and we pray that you will continually move your Church to respond in [...]
A Prayer in Time of Debt
(I found this prayer in a collection of seasonal prayers from the National Catholic Rural Life Conference. I find it poignant in a time of economic crisis.)
ALMIGHTY, everlasting God, we beg of You to help us soon to pay off our debts to our fellowmen. Give us strength and courage to persevere until the last [...]
King Louis IX of France
Never would have expected a feast day for a French King, but there have been stranger occasions on the Episcopal Caelndar…
Collect
O God, you called your servant Louis of France to an earthly throne that he might advance your heavenly kingdom, and gave him zeal for your Church and love for your people: Mercifully grant that [...]
Saint Bartholomew
A feast day for the biblical saint…
Collect
Almighty and everlasting God, who gave to your apostle Bartholomew grace truly to believe and to preach your Word: Grant that your Church may love what he believed and preach what he taught; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one [...]