Swithun, Bishop of Winchester, c.862
Bonaventure, Friar, Bishop, Teacher of the Faith, 1274

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Exciting Holiness
Proverbs 3.1-8
Psalm 20.1-5a, 6, 7, 9
James 5.7-11, 13-18
Matthew 5.43-end

Holy Communion
Exodus 2.1-15
Psalm 69.1-2, 31-end
Matthew 11.20-24

Morning Prayer
Psalms 87, 89.1-18
Job 38
Romans 15.1-13

Evening Prayer
Psalm 89.19-end
Judges 14
Luke 18.1-14

Collect

Almighty God,
by whose grace we celebrate again
the feast of your servant Swithun:
grant that, as he governed with gentleness
the people committed to his care,
so we, rejoicing in our Christian inheritance,
may always seek to build up your Church in unity and love;
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, shepherd of your people,
whose servant Swithun revealed the loving service of Christ
in his ministry as a pastor of your people:
by this eucharist in which we share
awaken within us the love of Christ
and keep us faithful to our Christian calling;
through him who laid down his life for us,
but is alive and reigns with you, now and for ever.

BCP: Swithun, Bishop of Winchester, c.862, translated 912