Collect for Quinquagesima O Lord, who hast taught us that all our doings without charity are nothing worth: Send thy Holy Ghost and pour into our hearts that most excellent gift of charity, the very bond of peace and of all virtues, without which whatsoever liveth is counted dead before thee. Grant this for thine only Song Jesus Christ's sake. Amen.
Collect for Saint Matthias's Day O Almighty God, who into the place of the traitor Judas didst choose thy faithful servant Matthias to be of the number of the twelve Apostles: Grant that thy Church, being alway preserved from false Apostles, may be ordered and guided by faithful and true pastors; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Collect for Sexagesima O Lord God, who seest that we not put our trust in any thing that we do: Mercifully grant that by thy power we may be defended against all adversity; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Collect for Septuagesima O Lord, we beseech thee favourably to hear the prayers of thy people; that we, who art justly punished for our offences, may be mercifully delivered by thy goodness, for the glory of thy Name; through Jesus Christ our Saviour, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Amen.
And the Gloria disappears early from the Mass for me. Which makes me wonder, if one is traditional at home but modern at church, how awkward would it be to participate?
Collect for the Fifth Sunday after Epiphany O Lord, we beseech thee to keep thy Church and household continually in thy true religion; that they who do lean only upon the hope of thy heavenly grace may evermore be defended by thy mighty power; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
One week from Septuagesima.
HOLT SHIT, THIS IS *INCREDIBLE*.
An actual treatment for prions! That's fucking ASTOUNDING. Those things are goddamn TERRIFYING.
Collect for the Fourth Sunday after Epiphany O God, who knowest us to be set in the midst of so many and great dangers, that by reason of the frailty of our nature we cannot always stand upright: Grant to us such strength and protection, as may support us in all dangers, and carry us through all temptations; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Collect for Candlemas Almighty and everliving God, we humbly beseech thy Majesty, that, as thy only-begotten Son was this day presented in the temple in substance of our flesh, so we may be presented unto thee with pure and clean hearts, by the same thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
My theology is as follows:
Collect for the Third Sunday after Epiphany Almighty and everlasting God, mercifully look upon our infirmities, and in all our dangers and necessities stretch forth thy right hand to help and defend us; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Collect for the Conversion of St Paul O God, who through the preaching of the blessed Apostle Saint Paul, hast caused the light of the Gospel to shine throughout the world: Grant, we beseech thee, that we, having his wonderful conversion in remembrance, may shew forth our thankfulness unto thee for the same, by following the holy doctrine which he taught; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
One bishop, in one church, literally just asked the president to be nice and him and everyone in his circle been melting down for a week.
These aren't strong people. They're very, very weak people. They can be beaten.
Zuckerberg's 'masculine energy' got its first big win with Trump declaring there are only two genders. This is an agenda that will see laws passed to push gays back into the closet and women back into the kitchen. Our trans siblings are in the front line of this fight, so now more than ever
This is position of Wolfe’s is functionally and morally identical to the goals, logic, and excuses used by German Christians as they walked innocent people into the gas chambers during the Holocaust.
boldly rebuke vice
Please Allies, rethink "support trans rights" as your default position.
In the US, UK and elsewhere, trans *rights* are in the dumpster and no amount of Posting is going to fix it.
Support trans *survival* because a lot of us aren't going to make it without significant, maybe risky, material help.
Collect for the Second Sunday after Epiphany Almighty and everlasting God, who dost govern all things in heaven and earth: Mercifully hear the supplications of thy people, and grant us thy peace all the days of our life; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
The end of this is like "trans rights" because firstly, I am a trans and I deserve rights, so if you like my writing you'd better get on board. And secondly, it's there because the fash also love to get weird about old buildings and I need to make sure my stuff doesn't end up popular with them.
And this, in short, is why I changed my social media profiles back in 2021 (22?) to read "Not a leftist anymore".
It really is disconcerting to think that in the span of just a few months, guns are good now. The sooner we are able to speak loudly of the universal, the better politics will be.
Collect for the First Sunday after the Epiphany O Lord, we beseech thee mercifully to receive the prayers of thy people which call upon thee; and grant that they may both perceive and know what things they ought to do, and also may have grace and power faithfully to fulfil the same; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
A prayer which brings a new perspective on the idea of the new year's resolution. I promised to myself last year I'd try to engage more with the Tomorrow Movement, but I didn't do anything past January. Worse, I still have their shirt.
Time to think of things that are more achievable, I guess.
I can one-up this. Vincent Amos, politically liberal, Christian convert *and* traditionalist.
Them: I believe in science. I trust the experts!
Experts: Your take on religion is baby-brained.
Them: Not those experts!
A few months ago, an evangelical anti-theist publicly asked me if I’d like to come on his YouTube channel to discuss my concept/understanding of God.
I accepted the invitation under one condition: he had to read the book I wrote & published on my concept/understanding of God. 1/4
Collect for the Epiphany O God, who by the leading of a star didst manifest thy only-begotten Son to the Gentiles: Mercifully grant, that we, which know thee now by faith, may after this life have the fruition of thy glorious Godhead; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Collect for the Circumcision of Christ Almighty God, who madest thy blessed Son to be circumcised, and obedient to the law for man; Grant us the true circumcision of the Spirit; that, our hearts, and all our members, being mortified from all worldly and carnal lusts, we may in all things obey thy blessed will; though the same thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Collect for Holy Innocents O Almighty God, who out of the mouths of babes and sucklings hast ordained strength, and madest infants to glorify thee by their deaths: Mortify and kill all vices in us, that by the innocence of our lives, and constancy of our faith, even unto death, we may glorify thy holy Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Collect for St John the Evangelist Merciful Lord, we beseech thee to cast thy bright beams of light upon thy Church, that it being enlightened by the doctrine of thy blessed Apostle and Evangelist Saint John may so walk in the light of thy truth, that it may at length attain to the light of everlasting life; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Collect for St Stephen's Day Grant, O Lord, that in all our sufferings here upon earth, for the testimony of thy truth, we may steadfastly look up to heaven, and by faith behold the glory that shall be revealed; and, being filled with the Holy Ghost, may learn to love and bless our persecutors by the example of thy first Martyr Saint Stephen, who prayed for his murderers to thee, O blessed Jesus, who standest at the right hand of God to succour all those that suffer for thee, our only Mediator and Advocate. Amen.
Collect for the Nativity of our Lord Almighty God, who hast given thy only-begotten Son to take our nature upon him, and as at this time to be born of a pure Virgin: Grant that we being regenerate, and made thy children by adoption and grace, may daily be renewed by thy Holy Spirit; through the same our Lord Jesus Christ, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the same Spirit, ever one God, world without end. Amen.
