St. Louis
(King of
France)
August 25
The Collect.
OGOD, who didst call thy servant
Louis to an earthly throne that he might advance thy heavenly kingdom, and
didst endue him with zeal for thy Church and charity towards thy people:
Mercifully grant that we who commemorate his example may be fruitful in good
works, and attain to the glorious fellowship of thy saints; through Jesus
Christ our Lord. Amen.
St. Augustine
(Bishop of
Hippo)
August 28
The Collect.
O LORD God, who art the light of the
minds that know thee, the life of the souls that love thee, and the strength of
the hearts that serve thee: Help us, after the example of thy servant Saint
Augustine, so to know thee that we may truly love thee, so to love thee that we
may fully serve thee, whom to serve is perfect, freedom; through Jesus Christ our
Lord. Amen.
The Epistle. Hebrews 12:22-24, 28-29.
BUT ye are come unto mount Sion, and
unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable
company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which
are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just
men made perfect, and to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the
blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel. Wherefore
we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may
serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: for our God is a consuming
fire.
The Gospel. St. John 17:1-8.
THESE words spake Jesus, and lifted
up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son,
that thy Son also may glorify thee: as thou hast given him power over all
flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. And
this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus
Christ, whom thou hast sent. I have glorified thee on the earth: I have
finished the work which thou gavest me to do. And now, 0 Father, glorify thou
me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world
was. I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the
world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.
Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.
For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have
received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have
believed that thou didst send me.
Beheading of St John
the Baptist
August 29
The Collect
Almighty God, who called thy servant
John the Baptist to be the forerunner of your incarnate Son in birth and in
death: strengthen us by thy grace that, as he suffered for the truth, so we to
may boldly resist corruption and vice and receive with him the unfading crown
of glory; through thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who livith and reighneth with
thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, ever one God, unto the ages of ages. Amen.
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