Today’s collect does precisely what a good collect should do: gather up the many far flung references and allusions to angels in the Scriptures: “O Everlasting God, who hast ordained and constituted the services of Angels and men in a wonderful order.” This order in all its complexity is only hinted in Scripture but laid out quite nicely (and maybe too neatly) in Homily 34 of one of the greatest of the ancient popes, St Gregory the Great from the last sixth century:
Praise him, all you angels of his; * praise him, all his host. Young men and maidens, * old and young together. Let us praise the Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Today’s collect does precisely what a good collect should do: gather up the many far flung references and allusions to angels in the Scriptures: “O Everlasting God, who hast ordained and constituted the services of Angels and men in a wonderful order.” This order in all its complexity is only hinted in Scripture but laid out quite nicely (and maybe too neatly) in Homily 34 of one of the greatest of the ancient popes, St Gregory the Great from the last sixth century:
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Almighty and everliving God, who art the author of life and lover of souls; receive, we beseech thee, the grief and sorrow our nation commemorates on this day and look down in mercy upon all whom these horrors touched—the departed and the killers, the families and all who suffer and grieve; and grant that we who once were nameless and no people, may never cease to welcome those who are relegated to the dens and caves of the earth, thou who art the God of the wanderer and of adoption; to whom, with thine eternal Son and Holy Spirit, be all glory and dominion, world without end. Amen. |
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