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Almighty God, who in thy wrath in the time of King David didst slay with the plague of pestilence threescore and ten thousand, and yet remembering thy mercy didst save the rest: Have pity upon us miserable sinners, who are now visited with great sickness and mortality; that like as thou didst then command thine . . . → Read More: A Prayer in the Time of Plague  A Lenten Reflection with our Director of Adult Education, B. Johnson. A Lenten Reflection with B. Johnson 2021.1  
¶ This Collect is to be said every day in Lent, after the Collect appointed for the day, until Palm Sunday. Almighty and everlasting God, who hatest nothing that thou hast made, and dost forgive the sins of all those who are penitent: Create and make in us new and contrite hearts, . . . → Read More: Ash Wednesday 
Lord, give us grace to inaugurate with holy fasting the defenses of Christian warfare, so that we who are to fight against spiritual wickedness, may be helped and strengthened by self-denial; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. ¶ Or this: O God of infinite mercy, grant that we who know thy compassion may . . . → Read More: Shrove Tuesday 
Engraving of Thomas Bray, from Charles Knowles Bolton’s The Founders: Portraits of Persons Born Abroad Who Came to the Colonies in North America Before the Year 1701, Vol. I. From Wikipedia. O God, who dost ever hallow and protect thy Church: Raise up therein through thy Spirit good and faithful stewards of . . . → Read More: Thomas Bray, Priest and Missionary, Founder of the SPCK and the SPG Here is the video of the Holy Eucharist “in tempore quarantinæ” for Quinquagesima. 
St Valentine baptizing Saint Lucilla by Jacopo Bassano (Jacopo da Ponte) (1510—1592). Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons Almighty God, by whose grace and power thy holy Martyr Valentine triumphed over suffering and despised death: Grant, we beseech the, that enduring hardness and waxing valiant in fight, we may with . . . → Read More: Saint Valentine 
Saints Cyril and Methodius holding the Cyrillic alphabet, a mural by Bulgarian iconographer Z. Zograf, 1848, Troyan Monastery O God, who by the preaching of thy servants Cyril and Methodius didst cause the light of the Gospel to shine in Slavonic lands: Lead thy people by its brightness to become sons of a . . . → Read More: Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius 
Chi Rho mosaic from Saint Gregory of Sinai Monastery O Lord, who hast taught us that all our doings without charity are nothing worth: Send thy Holy Ghost, and pour into our hearts that most excellent gift of charity, the very bond of peace and of all virtues, without which whosoever liveth . . . → Read More: Quinquagesima Sunday: the Sunday Next before Lent |
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