May the Lord answer you in the day of trouble, ; the Name of the God of Jacob defend you.
Psalm 20:1
This used to be feast of Latimer, Ridley and Thomas Cranmer. But in the new book of Lesser Feasts and Fasts (now called Holy Women, Holy Men: Celebrating the Saints) Cranmer has a day of his own, on March 21, which surely seems appropriate. Maybe Ridley and Latimer are together becasue they were burned at the stake together in Oxford. The Roman Catholics had taken control again in England and the rest, as they say, is history. (Cranmer was burned at the stake a year later.) It's all very confusing. It takes one with more learning and intelligence than I have to say whether it’s salubrious to celebrate these two poor men who were barbecued for their faith - or was it more a political deal? I was not going to even mention that it was their day at all, but the church celebrates them so I have too as a faithful daughter of the church.
"Keep us, O Lord, constant in faith and zealous in witness, that we, like your servants Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley, may live in our fear, die in your favor and rest in your peace... Amen"
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