Day: August 5, 2010

The collect for today, the Feast Day of Saint Oswald (d. 642), King of Northumbria, Martyr (source):

O Lord God almighty,
who didst so kindle the faith of thy servant King Oswald with thy Spirit
that he set up the sign of the cross in his kingdom
and turned his people to the light of Christ:
grant that we, being fired by the same Spirit,
may ever bear our cross before the world
and be found faithful servants of the gospel;
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.

With the Epistle and Gospel for a Martyr from The Book of Common Prayer (Canadian, 1962):
The Epistle: 1 St Peter 4:12-19
The Gospel: St Matthew 16:24-27

Artwork: Ford Madox Brown, St Oswald Receiving St Aidan, 1864. Oil on canvas, Lady Lever Art Gallery, Liverpool.

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