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A blessed and glorious feast of the Ascension to all my readers, Catholic and Protestant alike. In fact, I have always said that the Feast o...

Grant, we beseech thee, Almighty God, that like as we do believe thy only begotten Son our Lord Jesus Christ to have ascended into the heave...

Today is Rogation Sunday. That means that we pray for the farmers and for all those who plant and grow things for the good of mankind. Here ...

Almighty God, who seest that we have no power of ourselves to help ourselves; Keep us both outwardly in our bodies, and inwardly in our soul...

Another wonderful collect, apparently (according to Blunt) an original composition by John Cosin , Bishop of Durham at the Restoration. O GO...

I put up a particularly good via media set of Michaelmas posts here and at W4 two years ago, so I'll link to them here and here . (Triv...

One of the greatest collects in the Prayer Book or in the English language: O God, the protector of all that trust in thee, without whom not...

O God, the strength of all those who put their trust in thee; Mercifully accept our prayers; and because, through the weakness of our mortal...

One of the greatest collects in the entire Book of Common Prayer is the collect for today, the fourth Sunday after Easter: O Almighty God, w...

Well, golly, I wrote such a great post for Ascension Day last year that I'm strongly inclined just to link to it. It's here. And her...

The collect for Advent II Blessed Lord, who hast caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning; Grant that we may in such wise h...

I was teaching Youngest Daughter the Apostles' Creed a couple of weeks ago. No, not making her memorize it (though she probably could) b...

I'm sure I've said it before, but the section at the back of the 1928 Prayer Book called "Family Prayer" is unjustly negle...

I apologize for being so silent lately, as well as for the fact that there has been no collect or hymn featured for quite some time. Today r...

The collect for the fourth Sunday after Easter reads as follows: O Almighty God, who alone canst order the unruly wills and affections of si...

Today is Gaudete Sunday. We were, however, snowed out of church today, so the only signs of Gaudete will be here at home, where we would hav...

I apologize to my kind readers for having not updated here for a couple of weeks. I did post at What's Wrong with the World on a couple ...

I've decided to call it "collect for the week" when I'm fudgin'. This one is all the way back from Easter IV: O Almig...

I don't have to argue with myself about whether to have the "collect of the week" this week be the real collect of the week. ...

So now that I've started this so late in Trinitytide, I'll have to throw in some extra posts on collects to bring in some of the bes...