Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678

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Exciting Holiness
Song of Songs 8.6, 7
Psalm 34.1-8
Acts 4.32-35
Matthew 25.1-13

Holy Communion
2 Chronicles 24.17-25
Psalm 89.25-33
Matthew 6.24-end

Morning Prayer
Psalms 76, 79
Judges 12.1-7
Luke 17.11-19

Evening Prayer
Psalms 81, 84
Nehemiah 2
Romans 14.1-12

(or) Evening Prayer on the Eve of John the Baptist
Psalm 71
Judges 13.2-7,24-25
Luke 1.5-25

Additional Weekday Lectionary
Isaiah 25.1-9
Acts 2.22-33

Collect

Eternal God,
who bestowed such grace upon your servant Etheldreda
that she gave herself wholly to the life of prayer
and to the service of your true religion:
grant that we, like her,
may so live our lives on earth seeking your kingdom
that by your guiding
we may be joined to the glorious fellowship of your saints;
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

Merciful God,
who gave such grace to your servant Etheldreda
that she served you with singleness of heart
and loved you above all things:
help us, whose communion with you
has been renewed in this sacrament,
to forsake all that holds us back from following Christ
and to grow into his likeness from glory to glory;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Collect on the Eve of Birth of John the Baptist

Almighty God,
by whose providence your servant John the Baptist
was wonderfully born,
and sent to prepare the way of your Son our Saviour
by the preaching of repentance:
lead us to repent according to his preaching
and, after his example,
constantly to speak the truth, boldly to rebuke vice,
and patiently to suffer for the truth’s sake;
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.

Collect on the Eve of Trinity 4

O God, the protector of all who trust in you,
without whom nothing is strong, nothing is holy:
increase and multiply upon us your mercy;
that with you as our ruler and guide
we may so pass through things temporal
that we lose not our hold on things eternal;
grant this, heavenly Father,
for our Lord Jesus Christ’s sake,
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.