Tuesday, July 25, 2017

                           _______St James' 

                           Collect________

       

          

          pour 

          upon 

          the 

          leaders 

          of your 

          Church 

          that 

          spirit of 

          self-denying service 

                 by which alone 

               they may have 

             true authority   

      among * your people. 

*St. James, first of the apostles to suffer martyrdom, the brother of John, sons of the Galilean fisherman Zebedee whom Jesus nicknamed “Boanerges” Aramaic for "The Sons of Thunder."

“according to an old tradition, the body of James was taken to Compostela Spain which is been a shrine for pilgrim-age for centuries"

                   * among= preposition 

 surrounded by; being a member 

of (a larger set): one of....