CW Oswald, 642

Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642

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Exciting Holiness
Wisdom 5.15-20
Psalm 144.1-5, 7, 11, 12, 16
1 Peter 4.12-end
John 16.29-end

Holy Communion
Jeremiah 31.1-7
Psalm 121
Matthew 15.21-28

Morning Prayer
Psalm <b>119.57-80</b>
1 Samuel 20.18-end
Acts 2.1-21

Evening Prayer
Psalms <b>59</b>, 60, (67)
Jeremiah 38.1-13
Mark 1.21-28

(or) Evening Prayer on the Eve of the Transfiguration
Psalms 99, 110
Exodus 24.12-end
John 12.27-36a

Additional Weekday Lectionary
Isaiah 49.1-7
1 John 1

Collect

Lord God almighty,
who so kindled the faith of King Oswald with your 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 always bear our cross before the world
and be found faithful servants of the gospel;
through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord,
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.

Post Communion

Eternal God,
who gave us this holy meal
in which we have celebrated the glory of the cross
and the victory of your martyr Oswald:
by our communion with Christ
in his saving death and resurrection,
give us with all your saints the courage to conquer evil
and so to share the fruit of the tree of life;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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God our redeemer,
whose Church was strengthened by the blood of your martyr Oswald:
so bind us, in life and death, to Christ’s sacrifice
that our lives, broken and offered with his,
may carry his death and proclaim his resurrection in the world;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.