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Christ Church Book Club will resume on Tuesday, September 18th, at 7:00pm with review and discussion of The Book of Common Prayer: Past, Present and Future. Published in commemoration of the 350th anniversary of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, it contains contributions by, among many others, Dame P.D. James and Fr. David Curry. For more information on this book and the complete Book Club schedule, click here.
The Book Club will meet at 7:00pm on the third Tuesday of the month in the Coronation Room, Christ Church Parish Hall.
All are welcome to attend and join in the discussion.
The Book Club 2012-2013 leaflet can be downloaded here as a pdf document.
The collect for an Abbot, on the occasion of the Feast of St. Giles of Provence (d. c. 710), Hermit, Abbot (source):
O God, by whose grace the blessed Abbot Giles, enkindled with the fire of thy love, became a burning and a shining light in thy Church: Grant that we may be inflamed with the same spirit of discipline and love, and ever walk before thee as children of light; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
The Epistle: 1 St. John 2:15-17
The Gospel: St. Luke 6:20-23a
All that is known for certain about this saint is that he was born in the early seventh century and that he founded a monastery in what is now the town of Saint-Gilles, southern France. The monastery became a renowned stopping place in medieval times for pilgrims journeying to Compostela, Rome, or the Holy Land.
A tenth-century Legend attributed important miracles to Saint Giles, which helped make him one of the most popular saints of the Middle Ages. Hundreds of churches and monasteries across Europe are dedicated to him. As well, because he is the patron saint of lepers, cripples, and nursing mothers, many hospitals were built in his name. Saint Giles is also the patron saint of Edinburgh, where his memory is honoured by the Church of Scotland High Kirk: St. Giles’ Cathedral.
Artwork: Hans Memling, Saint Giles (detail of the central panel of the Moreel Triptych), 1484. Oil on wood, Groeningemuseum, Bruges.
