Julian of Norwich, Spiritual Writer, c.1417

https://almanac.oremus.org/2024-05-08

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Exciting Holiness
1 Kings 19.9-13a
Psalm 27.1, 3-6
1 Corinthians 13.8-end
John 20.11-18

Holy Communion
Acts 17.15, 22 - 18.1
Psalm 148.1-2, 11-end
John 16.12-15

Morning Prayer
Psalms 132, 133 (or) 119.105-128
Numbers 17.1-11
Luke 7.1-10

Evening Prayer on the Eve of Ascension Day
Psalms 15, 24
2 Samuel 23.1-5
Colossians 2.20 - 3.4

Collect

Most holy God, the ground of our beseeching,
who through your servant Julian
revealed the wonders of your love:
grant that as we are created in your nature
and restored by your grace,
our wills may be so made one with yours
that we may come to see you face to face
and gaze on you for ever;
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

God of truth,
whose Wisdom set her table
and invited us to eat the bread and drink the wine
of the kingdom:
help us to lay aside all foolishness
and to live and walk in the way of insight,
that we may come with Julian to the eternal feast of heaven;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Collect on the Eve of Ascension Day

Grant, we pray, almighty God,
that as we believe your only-begotten Son our Lord Jesus Christ
to have ascended into the heavens,
so we in heart and mind may also ascend
and with him continually dwell;
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.