O God the King of glory,
you have exalted your only Son Jesus Christ
with great triumph to your kingdom in heaven:
we beseech you, leave us not comfortless,
but send your Holy Spirit to strengthen us
and exalt us to the place where our Saviour Christ is gone before,
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Acts 1.15\u201317,21\u201326<\/p>\n\n\n\n
15<\/sup> In those days Peter stood up among the believers (together the crowd numbered about one hundred and twenty people) and said, 16<\/sup>\u2018Friends, the scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit through David foretold concerning Judas, who became a guide for those who arrested Jesus\u2014 17<\/sup>for he was numbered among us and was allotted his share in this ministry.\u2019 John 17.6\u201319<\/p>\n\n\n\n 6<\/sup> \u2018I have made your name known to those whom you gave me from the world. They were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. 7<\/sup>Now they know that everything you have given me is from you; 8<\/sup>for the words that you gave to me I have given to them, and they have received them and know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me. 9<\/sup>I am asking on their behalf; I am not asking on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those whom you gave me, because they are yours. 10<\/sup>All mine are yours, and yours are mine; and I have been glorified in them. 11<\/sup>And now I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one, as we are one. 12<\/sup>While I was with them, I protected them in your name that you have given me. I guarded them, and not one of them was lost except the one destined to be lost, so that the scripture might be fulfilled. 13<\/sup>But now I am coming to you, and I speak these things in the world so that they may have my joy made complete in themselves.14<\/sup>I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. 15<\/sup>I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but I ask you to protect them from the evil one.16<\/sup>They do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. 17<\/sup>Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. 18<\/sup>As you have sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. 19<\/sup>And for their sakes I sanctify myself, so that they also may be sanctified in truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n All collects and readings appointed for this day as well as the orders of Morning Prayer, Evening Prayer and Night Prayer can be found at almanac.oremus.org\/2021-05-16<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sunday 16th May – Seventh Sunday of Easter – Sunday after Ascension Day Collect O God the King of glory,you have exalted your only Son Jesus Christwith great triumph to your kingdom in heaven:we beseech you, leave us not comfortless,but send your Holy Spirit to strengthen usand exalt us to the place where our Saviour … <\/p>\n
21<\/sup>So one of the men who have accompanied us throughout the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, 22<\/sup>beginning from the baptism of John until the day when he was taken up from us\u2014one of these must become a witness with us to his resurrection.\u2019 23<\/sup>So they proposed two, Joseph called Barsabbas, who was also known as Justus, and Matthias. 24<\/sup>Then they prayed and said, \u2018Lord, you know everyone\u2019s heart. Show us which one of these two you have chosen 25<\/sup>to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place.\u2019 26<\/sup>And they cast lots for them, and the lot fell on Matthias; and he was added to the eleven apostles.<\/p>\n\n\n\nGospel<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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