Saint Gregory the Great
by CCW | 12 March 2010 05:00
[1]The collect for today, the Feast of Saint Gregory the Great (540-604), Bishop of Rome, Doctor of the Church (source[2]):
O merciful Father,
who didst choose thy bishop Gregory
to be a servant of the servants of God:
grant that, like him, we may ever desire to serve thee
by proclaiming thy gospel to the nations,
and may ever rejoice to sing thy praises;
through Jesus Christ thy Son our Lord,
who liveth and reigneth with thee,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.
The Lesson: 1 Chronicles 25: 1a, 6-8[3]
The Gospel: St Mark 10:42-45[4]
Artwork: Francisco de Goya, St Gregory the Great, c. 1797. Oil on canvas, Museo, Romantico, Madrid.
- [Image]: http://christchurchwindsor.ca/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Goya_StGregoryTheGreat.jpg
- source: http://www.cofe.anglican.org/worship/liturgy/commonworship/texts/collects/trad/tradseptember.html
- 1 Chronicles 25: 1a, 6-8: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20chronicles%2025:1,6-8&version=ESV
- St Mark 10:42-45: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=mark%2010:42-45&version=ESV
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