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Really late with this this week; but here is the Collect for the Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany from the Order of Worship for the Reformed Church in the United States. The Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany THE COLLECT O LORD, we beseech Thee to keep thy Church and household continually in thy true religion; that […]
It is not, of course, problematic from a Protestant point of view to remember with gratitude the example of holy men and martyrs. Indeed, it is meet and right so to do. After all, Hebrews 11 does the same. To that end, here is the Collect for December 26, the day that in the West […]
Below is the Collect for the Fourth Sunday in Advent from the Order of Worship for the Reformed Church in the United States. Once again it differs from that found in The Book of Common Prayer: O Lord, raise up (we pray thee) thy power, and come among us, and with great might succor us; that whereas, through our […]
The Collect for the third Sunday in Advent (1 is here and 2 here): O Lord Jesus Christ, who at thy first coming didst send thy messenger to prepare thy way before thee; Grant that the ministers and stewards of thy mysteries may likewise so prepare and make ready thy way, by turning the hearts of […]
Last week we looked at Samuel Best’s catechism on the Collect for the first Sunday in Advent from the Book of Common Prayer. In this post, we turn to the second. First, the prayer: “Blessed Lord, who hast caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning; Grant that we may in such wise […]
This post is piggy-backing on that on Collects and Catechism from a couple of days ago. In A Rationale upon the Book of Common-Prayer of the Church of England (1655 and afterwards), Anthony Sparrow lists several reasons why the short prayers known as “collects” are of great benefit to Christians. His third and fourth reasons are […]