Collect for the feast
Grant,
O Lord,
that we…
may be
rooted
deep in
your love…*
Blandina, a slave, and 47 others were martyred at Lyons that day in the year 177. Among them were Blandina, a slave, and her mistress, her bishop, Pothius and a 15 year old boy who, together "offered a single wreath woven of diverse colors and flowers of all kinds" (Eusebius)
The companions of Blandina, in their torment, looked upon her suspended from a the stake; and, in the form of their sister, they beheld him who
was crucified for them.
Antiphon on the Benedictus
Pray today for all who suffer discrimination, imprisonment, torture or death for their faith.
*Just in case you're keeping track of such things, "rooted deep" is from the Lutheran collect which I like it better than the Episcopal which says not “rooted deep” but “rooted and grounded….”
*Just in case you're keeping track of such things, "rooted deep" is from the Lutheran collect which I like it better than the Episcopal which says not “rooted deep” but “rooted and grounded….”
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