Perpetua, Felicity and their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203

https://almanac.oremus.org/2025-03-07

Purple or Lent array / red

Exciting Holiness
Song of Songs 8.6, 7
Psalm 54.1-4, 6
Revelation 12.10-12a
Matthew 24.9-13

Holy Communion
Isaiah 58.1-9a
Psalm 51.1-5, 17-18
Matthew 9.14-15

Morning Prayer
Psalms 3, 7 (or) 88, (95)
Jeremiah 3.6-22
John 4.27-42

Evening Prayer
Psalm 31 (or) 102
Genesis 40
Galatians 3.1-14

Collect

Holy God,
who gave great courage to Perpetua, Felicity and their companions:
grant that we may be worthy to climb the ladder of sacrifice
and be received into the garden of peace;
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 martyrs Perpetua, Felicity and their companions:
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.

(or)

Eternal God,
who gave us this holy meal
in which we have celebrated the glory of the cross
and the victory of your martyrs Perpetua, Felicity and their companions:
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.

BCP: Perpetua, Martyr, 203

BCP Holy Communion

1 Kings 19.3b-8
Matthew 5.43 - 6.6