Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642

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Exciting Holiness
Wisdom 5.15-20
Psalm 144.1-5, 7, 11, 12, 16
1 Peter 4.12-end
John 16.29-end

Holy Communion
Nahum 2.1, 3, 3.1-3, 6-7
Psalm 137.1-6 or
Deuteronomy 32.35-36, 39, 41
Matthew 16.24-end

Morning Prayer
Psalms 17, 19
1 Samuel 13.5-18
Luke 22.63-end

Evening Prayer
Psalm 22
Jeremiah 30.12-22
James 1.1-11

(or) Evening Prayer on the Eve of the Transfiguration
Psalms 99, 110
Exodus 24.12-18
John 12.27-36a

Additional Weekday Lectionary
2 Samuel 18.18-end
Matthew 27.57-end

Collect

Lord God almighty,
who so kindled the faith of King Oswald with your Spirit
that he set up the sign of the cross in his kingdom
and turned his people to the light of Christ:
grant that we, being fired by the same Spirit,
may always bear our cross before the world
and be found faithful servants of the gospel;
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 Oswald:
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 Oswald:
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.

Collect on the Eve of The Transfiguration

Father in heaven,
whose Son Jesus Christ was wonderfully transfigured
before chosen witnesses upon the holy mountain,
and spoke of the exodus he would accomplish at Jerusalem:
give us strength so to hear his voice and bear our cross
that in the world to come we may see him as he is;
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.