Bulletin

Draw near to your servants, O Lord,

and answer their prayers with unceasing kindness,

that, for those who glory in you as their Creator and guide,

you may restore what you have created

and keep safe what you have restored.

“O God, protector of those who hope in you,

without whom nothing has firm foundation, nothing is holy,

bestow in abundance your mercy upon us

and grant that, with you as our ruler and guide,

we may use the good things that pass

in such a way as to hold fast even now to those that ever endure.”

Dear sisters and brothers,

Show favour, O Lord, to your servants and mercifully increase the gifts of your grace, that, made fervent in hope, faith and charity, they may be ever watchful in keeping your commands.

Dear sisters and brothers,

Today’s Collect: O God, who show the light of your truth to those who go astray, so that they may return to the right path, give all who for the faith they profess are accounted Christians the grace to reject whatever is contrary to the name of Christ and to strive after all that does it honour.

Dear sisters and brothers,

Collect O God, who in the abasement of your Son have raised up a fallen world, fill your faithful with holy joy, for on those you have rescued from slavery to sin you bestow eternal gladness.

Dear sisters and brothers,

Today we celebrate our communion with the Church of Rome, with Pope Leo and the Apostolic See. Today the Church links two Apostles, Peter and Paul, in a common feast, as the first martyrs of the Church of Rome.

Dear sisters and brothers,

O God, who in this wonderful Sacrament have left us a memorial of your Passion, grant us so to revere the sacred mysteries of your Body and Blood that we may always experience in ourselves the fruits of your redemption.

Dear sisters and brothers,

Collect God our Father, who, by sending into the world the Word of truth and the Spirit of sanctification made known to the human race your wondrous mystery, grant us, we pray, that in professing the true faith, we may acknowledge the Trinity of eternal glory and adore your Unity, powerful in majesty.

Dear sisters and brothers,

 Today’s Collect: O God, who by the mystery of today’s great feast sanctify your whole Church in every people and nation, pour out, we pray, the gifts of the Holy Spirit across the face of the earth and, with the divine grace that was at work when the Gospel was first proclaimed, fill now once more the hearts of believers.

Dear sisters and brothers,

Our prayers this Sunday are strikingly positive. We are called to leave behind miserabilism and embrace God’s abundant grace.