Clement, Bishop of Rome, Martyr, c.100

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Red or Green / red

Exciting Holiness
Proverbs 15.1-4
Psalm 78.1-5a, 7
Philippians 3.17 - 4.3
Luke 14.7-11

Holy Communion
1 Maccabees 2.15-29 or
Revelation 5.1-10
Psalm 129 or
149.1-5
Luke 19.41-44

Morning Prayer
Psalms 61, 62 (or) 56, 57, (63*)
Isaiah 10.33-11.9
Matthew 8.14-22

Evening Prayer
Psalms 74, 76 (or) 61, 62, 64
Daniel 9.20-end
Revelation 12

Collect

Creator and Father of eternity,
whose martyr Clement bore witness with his blood
to the love he proclaimed and the gospel that he preached:
give us thankful hearts as we celebrate your faithfulness,
revealed to us in the lives of your saints,
and strengthen us in our pilgrimage as we follow your Son,
Jesus Christ our Lord,
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.

Post Communion

God our redeemer,
whose Church was strengthened by the blood of your martyr Clement:
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.

(or)

Eternal God,
who gave us this holy meal
in which we have celebrated the glory of the cross
and the victory of your martyr Clement:
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.