Calendar

Thursday after Trinity Sunday: Corpus Christi
The Festival of the Body and Blood of Christ

The Collect: O GOD, who in a wonderful Sacrament hast left unto us a memorial of thy Passion: grant us, we beseech thee, so to venerate the sacred mysteries of thy Body and Blood, that we may ever perceive within ourselves the fruit of thy redemption. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

The Epistle: 1Corinthians 11:23-29
The Gospel: John 6:55-58

Collect: O GOD, who by the preaching of thy blessed servant Columba didst cause the light of the Gospel to shine in the land of Scotland: Grant, we beseech thee, that having his life and labors in remembrance, we may show forth our thankfulness unto thee for the same by following the example of his zeal and patience; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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Collect: ALMIGHTY, everlasting God, whose servant Basil steadfastly confessed thy Son our Savior 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.

Collect: O God, who hast bestowed upon us the infinite treasures of thy love, in the Heart of thy well-beloved Son, which was pierced for our transgressions: grant us, we beseech thee, by reverence and devotion to make amends, according to our power, for all that we have done against thee. Through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

ALMIGHTY God, by whose grace and power thy holy martyr Alban triumphed over suffering, and despised death: Grant, we beseech thee, that enduring hardness, and waxing valiant in fight, we may with the noble army of martyrs receive the crown of everlasting life; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Saint Irenaeus (c. 130 - c. 200) was born in the East, most lIkely in Smyrna, whose first bishop was Polycarp, a disciple of Saint John the Apostle. Irenaeus became a priest and later Bishop of Lyons, an important trading center in Gaul of the western Roman empire.

Despite his dislike of the teachings of the Montanist and other heretical sects, he often favoured peacemaking and unity instead of persecution in order to win heretics back to the fulness of the Faith. Nonetheless, through his great works "Against Heresies" and "The Demonstration of Apostolic Preaching," he refuted Gnosticism. He emphasized Christian monotheism, our Lord's Incarnation, and advocated the creation of a Canon of Scripture as well as protection of the tradition of apostolic succession of the episcopate.

Collects: O GOD, who gavest grace to blessed Irenaeus thy Martyr and Bishop to overcome false doctrine by the truth of his teaching, and favorably to establish peace in thy Church: give thy people, we beseech thee, constancy in holy religion, and grant us thy peace all the days of our life. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

ALMIGHTY God, who didst uphold thy servant Irenaeus with strength to maintain the truth against every wind of vain doctrine: We beseech thee to keep us steadfast in thy true religion, that we may walk in constancy and in peace the way that leadeth to eternal life; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

The Epistle: 2Tim.3:14ff

The Gospel: Jhn.10:11ff