Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr, 258

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Exciting Holiness
Ezekiel 34.11-16
Psalm 75.1-3, 6, 7, 10
1 Peter 4.12-end
Matthew 18.18-22

Holy Communion
1 Timothy 1.1-2, 12-14
Psalm 16
Luke 6.39-42

Morning Prayer
Psalms 142, 144
Proverbs 30.1-9, 24-31
Mark 9.14-29

Evening Prayer
Psalm 145
2 Samuel 23.1-7
Acts 12.18-end

Collect

Holy God, who brought Cyprian to faith in Christ,
made him a bishop in the Church
and crowned his witness with a martyr’s death:
grant that, after his example,
we may love the Church and her teachings,
find your forgiveness within her fellowship
and so come to share the heavenly banquet
you have prepared for us;
through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord,
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.

Post Communion

God our redeemer,
whose Church was strengthened by the blood of your martyr Cyprian:
so bind us, in life and death, to Christ’s sacrifice
that our lives, broken and offered with his,
may carry his death and proclaim his resurrection in the world;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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Eternal God,
who gave us this holy meal
in which we have celebrated the glory of the cross
and the victory of your martyr Cyprian:
by our communion with Christ
in his saving death and resurrection,
give us with all your saints the courage to conquer evil
and so to share the fruit of the tree of life;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.