The collect for today, the Second Sunday After Christmas, from the 1962 Canadian Book of Common Prayer:
Almighty God, who hast given us thy only-begotten Son to take our nature upon him, and as at this time to be born of a pure Virgin; Grant that we being regenerate, and made thy children by adoption and [...]

The collect for today, the Circumcision of Christ, from the 1962 Canadian Book of Common Prayer:
Almighty God, who madest thy blessed Son to be circumcised, and obedient to the law for man; Grant us the true circumcision of the Spirit; that, our hearts, and all our members, being mortified from all worldly and carnal lusts, [...]

The collect for today, the commemoration of John Wycliffe, (c 1320-84),  Scholar, translator of the Scriptures into English, (source):
O Lord, God of truth, whose Word is a lantern to our feet and a light upon our path: We give you thanks for your servant John Wyclif, and those who, following in his steps, have labored [...]

The collect for today, the Feast Day of Thomas Becket (1117-1170), Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr (source):
O Lord God,
who gavest to thy servant Thomas Becket
grace to put aside all earthly fear
and be faithful even unto death:
grant that we, caring not for worldly esteem,
may fight against evil,
uphold thy rule,
and serve thee to our life’s end;
through Jesus Christ [...]

The collect for today, the Feast Day of the Holy Innocents, from the 1962 Canadian Book of Common Prayer:
O Almighty God, who out of the mouths of babes and sucklings hast ordained strength, and madest infants to glorify thee by their deaths; Mortify and kill all vices in us, and so strengthen us by thy [...]

The collect for today, the Sunday After Christmas-Day, from the 1962 Canadian Book of Common Prayer:
Almighty God, who hast given us thy only-begotten son to take our nature upon him, and as at this time to be born of a pure Virgin; Grant that we being regenerate, and made thy children by adoption and grace, [...]

The collect for today, the Feast of St John the Evangelist, from the 1962 Canadian Book of Common Prayer:
Merciful Lord, we beseech thee to cast thy bright beams of light upon thy Church, that it being enlightened by the doctrine of thy blessed Apostle and Evangelist Saint John may so walk in the light of [...]

The collect for today, the Feast of St Stephen, from the 1962 Canadian Book of Common Prayer:
Grant, O Lord, that, in all our sufferings here upon earth, for the testimony of thy truth, we may stedfastly look up to heaven, and by faith behold the glory that shall be revealed; and, being filled with the [...]

The collect for today, the Nativity of our Lord, or the Birth-day of Christ, commonly called Christmas-day, from the 1962 Canadian Book of Common Prayer:
Almighty God, who hast given us thy only-begotten Son to take our nature upon him, and as at this time to be born of a pure Virgin; Grant that we being [...]

The collect for today, Christmas Eve (source):
Almighty God,
who makest us glad with the yearly remembrance
of the birth of thy only Son Jesus Christ:
grant that, as we joyfully receive him as our redeemer,
so we may with sure confidence behold him
when he shall come to be our judge;
who liveth and reigneth with thee
in the unity of the [...]

The collect for today, the Feast Day of St Thomas, from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer:
Almighty and everliving God, who for the more confirmation of the faith didst suffer thy holy Apostle Thomas to be doubtful in thy Son’s resurrection; Grant us so perfectly, and without all doubt, to believe in thy Son Jesus [...]

The collect for today, the 4th Sunday in Advent, from the 1962 Canadian Book of Common Prayer:
Raise up, we beseech thee, O Lord, thy power, and come among us, and with great might succour us; that whereas, through our sins and wickedness, we are sore let and hindered in running the race that is set [...]

Conrad Rudolph, Professor of Art History, University of California at Riverside, has digitally re-constructed a lost 12th-century mural. Hugh of Saint-Victor (1096-1141) originally created “The Mystic Ark”, probably as a wall painting, but it was subsequently lost.  The mural is considered the most complex work of art from the medieval period.

That digital reconstruction of “The [...]

The collect for today, the Feast Day of St Ignatius (d. c. 107), Bishop of Antioch, Martyr (source):
Feed us, O Lord, with the living bread
and make us drink deep of the cup of salvation
that, following the teaching of thy bishop Ignatius,
and rejoicing in the faith
with which he embraced the death of a martyr,
we may be [...]

The collect for today, the 3rd Sunday in Advent, from the 1962 Canadian Book of Common Prayer:
O Lord Jesu Christ, who at thy first coming didst send thy messenger to prepare thy way before thee; Grant that the ministers and stewards of thy mysteries may likewise so prepare and make ready thy way, by turning [...]