St.
Thomas Aquinas
(Friar)
March
8
The
Collect.
ALMIGHTY God, who hast enriched thy
Church with the singular learning and holiness of thy servant Thomas: Grant us
to hold fast the true doctrine of thy Son our Saviour Jesus Christ, and to fashion
our lives according to the same, to the glory of thy great Name and the benefit
of thy holy Church; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
St.
Gregory
(Bishop
of Nyssa)
March
9
The
Collect.
ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, whose
servant Gregory steadfastly confessed thy Son our Saviour Jesus Christ to be
Very God and Very Man: Grant that we may hold fast to this faith, and evermore
magnify his holy Name; through the same thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who
liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit ever, one God, world without
end. Amen.
The
Epistle. Wisdom 7:22-28.
FOR wisdom, which is the worker of
all things, taught me: for in her is an understanding spirit, holy, one only,
manifold, subtil, lively, clear, undefiled, plain, not subject to hurt, loving
the thing that is good, quick, irresistible, ready to do good, kind to man,
stedfast, sure, free from care, having all power, overseeing all things, and
going through all understanding, pure, and most subtil, spirits. For wisdom is
more moving than any motion: she passeth and goeth through all things by reason
of her pureness. For she is the breath of the power of God, and a pure
influence. flowing from the glory of the Almighty: therefore can no defiled
thing fall into her. For she is the brightness of the everlasting light, the
unspotted mirror of the power of God, and the image of his goodness. And being
but one, she can do all things: and remaining in herself, she maketh all things
new: and in all ages entering into holy souls, she maketh them friends of God, and
prophets. For God loveth none but him that dwelleth with wisdom.
The Gospel. St. John 5:19-24.
JESUS said unto them, Verily, verily,
I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father
do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth, the Son likewise. For
the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and
he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel. For as the
Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth
whom he will. For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment
unto the Son: that all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the
Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent
him. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on
him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation;
but is passed from death unto life.
St. Gregory the
Great
(Bishop of
Rome)
March 12
The Collect.
ALMIGHTY and merciful God, who didst
raise up in Gregory a servant of the servants of God, by whose labour the
English people were brought into the knowledge of the Catholic and Apostolic
faith: Preserve in thy Church evermore a thankful remembrance of his zeal and
devotion; that thy people, being fruitful in every good work, may receive with
him and thy servants everywhere the crown of glory that fadeth not away;
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
The Epistle. Ecclesiasticus 47:8-11.
IN all his works he praised the Holy
One most high with words of glory; with his whole heart he sung songs, and
loved him that made him. He set singers also before the altar, that by their
voices they might make sweet melody, and daily sing praises in their songs. He
beautified their feasts, and set in order the solemn times until the end, that
they might praise his holy name, and that the temple might sound from morning.
The Lord took away his sins, and exalted his horn for ever: he gave him a
covenant of kings, and a throne of glory in Israel.
The Gospel. St. Mark 10:42-45.
JESUS called them to him, and saith
unto them, Ye know J that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles
exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them.
But so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be great among you, shall
be your minister: and whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant
of all. For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to
minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
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