Saturday 29 November 2014

ADVENT _ FIRST SUNDAY IN ADVENT









COLLECTS



Collect: Grant your faithful, we pray, almighty God, the resolve to run forth to meet your Christ with righteous deeds at his coming, so that, gathered at his right hand, they may be worthy to possess the heavenly Kingdom. 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
   
  Almighty God,
give us grace to cast away the works of darkness
and to put on the armour of light,
now in the time of this mortal life,
in which your Son Jesus Christ came to us in great humility;
that on the last day,
when he shall come again in his glorious majesty
      to judge the living and the dead,
we may rise to the life immortal;
through him who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.

Wednesday 26 November 2014

THANKSGIVING DAY






                                    One Day is there of the Series
                                    Termed Thanksgiving Day.
                                    Celebrated part at Table
                                    Part in Memory.

                                    Neither Patriarch nor Pussy
                                    I dissect the Play
                                    Seems it to my Hooded thinking
                                    Reflex Holiday.

                                    Had there been no sharp Subtraction
                                    From the early Sum —
                                    Not an Acre or a Caption
                                    Where was once a Room —

                                    Not a Mention, whose small Pebble
                                    Wrinkled any Sea,
                                    Unto Such, were such Assembly
                                    ’Twere Thanksgiving Day.

                                            Emily Dickenson
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