There are two options: Remember your mercies, O Lord, and with your eternal protection sanctify your servants, for whom Christ your Son, by the shedding of his Blood, established the Paschal Mystery. Who lives and reigns for ever and ever. Amen. Or: O God, who by the Passion of Christ your Son, our Lord, abolished [...]
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Collects for Good Friday
April 6, 2012Collects for Holy Thursday
April 5, 2012[Chrism Mass] O God, who anointed your Only Begotten Son with the Holy Spirit and made Him Christ and Lord, graciously grant that, being made sharers in his consecration, we may bear witness to your Redemption in the world. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity [...]
Collect for Wednesday of Holy Week
April 4, 2012O God, who willed your son to submit for our sake to the yoke of the Cross, so that you might drive from us the power of the enemy, grant us, your servants,to attain the grace of the resurrection. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity [...]
Collect for Tuesday of Holy Week
April 3, 2012Almighty ever-living God, grant us so to celebrate the mysteries of the Lord’s Passion that we may merit to receive your pardon. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.
Collect for Monday of Holy Week
April 2, 2012Grant, we pray, almighty God, that, though in our weakness we fail, we may be revived through the Passion of your Only Begotten Son. Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever.
Christ’s Triumphant Entry into Jerusalem: So it begins …
April 1, 2012Collect for Palm Sunday: Almighty ever-living God, who as an example of humility for the human race to follow caused our savior to take flesh and submit to the Cross, graciously grant that we may heed his lesson of patient suffering and so merit a share in his resurrection. Who lives and reigns with you [...]
The Ten Commandments (revisited)
March 25, 2012This scene is a detail of the fresco cycle in the Room of the Ark. Billowing clouds of aromatic incense surround the Ark of the Covenant, which is being carried in a solemn procession into the city of Jerusalem. The high priest of the Temple leads the pageant with the tabernacle containing the sacred Tablets of the [...]
Prayer Table Art for March
February 26, 2012Moses with the Ten Commandments I’d like to suggest this piece as the decoration for your prayer table this month. Not only is it the classroom topic for March, but it compliments our recent Home Lesson study of Old Testament stories and the Commandments are an excellent thing to think about during Lent. This work was [...]
November Prayer Tables for Classrooms
October 16, 2011This month’s classroom topic is the Corporal Works of Mercy and I’d like to suggest this piece by Dutch artist David Teniers (1610-1690) for your prayer table. It’s a scene that was beloved by either the artist and/or his patrons, as evidenced by the many times he painted a similar theme in his lifetime. The [...]
Angel of God, my guardian dear
October 2, 2011“Each and every member of the faithful has a Guardian Angel to protect, guard, and guide them through life.” and “Beside each believer stands an angel as protector and shepherd leading him to life.” -St. Basil the Great [Angels are proof] “that heaven denies us nothing that assists us. These celestial spirits have been placed [...]
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