Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher of the Faith, 1153
William and Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 and 1890

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Exciting Holiness
Proverbs 4.5-9
Psalm 19.1-4, 7
Revelation 19.5-9
John 15.7-11

Holy Communion
Judges 9.6-15
Psalm 21.1-6
Matthew 20.1-16

Morning Prayer
Psalm 119.57-80
Ezekiel 39.21-end
Mark 1.21-28

Evening Prayer
Psalms 59, 60, (67)
1 Samuel 20.18-end
Acts 2.1-21

Collect

Merciful redeemer,
who, by the life and preaching of your servant Bernard,
rekindled the radiant light of your Church:
grant us, in our generation,
to be inflamed with the same spirit of discipline and love
and ever to walk before you as children of light;
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 of truth,
whose Wisdom set her table
and invited us to eat the bread and drink the wine
of the kingdom:
help us to lay aside all foolishness
and to live and walk in the way of insight,
that we may come with Bernard to the eternal feast of heaven;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.