“Salvation belongs to God who is seated on the throne, and to the lamb!”

Each shard still shines with Christ’s reflected light,
It glances from the eyes, kindles the words
Of all his unknown saints. The dark is bright
With quiet lives and steady lights undimmed,
The witness of the ones we shunned and shamed.
Plain in our sight and far beyond our seeing,
He weaves their threads into the web of being.
They stand beside us even as we grieve,
The lone and left behind whom no one claimed,
Unnumbered multitudes, he lifts above
The shadow of the gibbet and the grave,
To triumph where all saints are known and named;
The gathered glories of his wounded love.

Collect of the Day: Almighty God, who hast knight together thine elect in one communion and fellowship in the mystical body of thy Son Christ our Lord: Grant us grace sot o follow thy blessed saints in all virtuous and godly living, that we may come to those ineffable joys which though hast prepared for those who unfeignedly love thee; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord, who with thee and the Holy Spirit liveth and reigneth, one God, in glory everlasting. Amen.

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