Readings:
Proverbs 31:10-20
Psalm 139:10-17
2 John 1-9
Matthew 13:44–46Preface of Baptism
[Common of a Saint]
[For Vocation in Daily Work]
[For Social Service]
PRAYER (traditional language)
O God, who didst call thy servant Margaret
to an earthly throne that she might advance thy heavenly kingdom, and gave her zeal for thy church and love for thy people: Mercifully grant
that we may also be fruitful in good works and
attain to the glorious crown of thy saints; though Jesus Christ our Lord,
who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, one God, for ever
and ever. Amen.
PRAYER (contemporary language)
O God, who called your servant Margaret
to an earthly throne that she might advance your heavenly kingdom, and
gave her zeal for your church and love for your people: Mercifully grant
that we also may be fruitful in good works, and
attain to the glorious crown of your saints; though Jesus Christ our Lord,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and
ever.
Amen.
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MARGARET
QUEEN OF SCOTLAND (16 NOV 1093)
Margaret
(born c. 1045) was the grand-daughter of Edmund Ironside, King of the
English, but was probably born in exile in Hungary, and brought to England
in 1057. After the Norman Conquest in 1066, she sought refuge in Scotland,
where about 1070 she married the King, Malcolm III. She and her husband
rebuilt the monastery of Iona and founded the Benedictine Abbey at Dunfermline.
Margaret undertook to impose on the Scottish the ecclesiastical customs
she had been accustomed to in England, customs that were also prevalent
in France and Italy. But Margaret was not concerned only with ceremonial
considerations. She encouraged the founding of schools, hospitals, and
orphanages. She argued in favor of the practice of receiving the Holy
Communion frequently. She was less successful in preventing feuding among
Highland Clans, and when her husband was treacherously killed in 1093,
she herself died a few days later (of grief, it is said).