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
Genesis 15.1-12, 17-18
Psalm 105.1-9
Matthew 7.15-20

Morning Prayer
Psalm 77
Job 29
Romans 12.9-end

Evening Prayer
Psalm 119.81-104
Judges 9.22-end
Luke 16.1-18

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

Additional Weekday Lectionary
Isaiah 5.8-24
James 1.17-25

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 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.