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The collect for today, the Feast Day of St Agnes (d. 304), virgin and martyr (source):
Eternal God, shepherd of your sheep,
whose child Agnes was strengthened to bear witness
in her living and her dying
to the true love of her redeemer:
grant us the power to understand, with all your saints,
what is the breadth and length and height and depth
and to know the love that surpasses knowledge,
even Jesus Christ your Son our Lord,
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.
For the Epistle: Song of Solomon 2:10-13
The Gospel: St Matthew 18:1-6
Artwork: Sir Edward Burne-Jones, St Agnes, Stained glass, 1887-88, St Paul's Church, Irton, England.
