St Aelred, 1109-1167, Abbot of the Cistercian Abbey of Rieveaulx in Yorkshire

                                                        Canticle 19: 

                                              Magna et mirabilia 

Your ways are ways 

of right-eousness and truth, 

            O

            King 

            of 

            all 

            the 

            ages… 

Almighty  God, you endowed Aelred with the gift of Christian friendship and the wisdom to lead others in the way of holiness: Grant to your people the same gift of mutual affection, that in loving one another, we may know the love of Christ, and rejoice in the gift 

of your eternal goodness….