A Prayer for the (Provisional) Feast Day of Richard Rolle, Walter Hilton, & Margery Kempe

Posted by Kendall Harmon

Gracious God, we offer thanks for the lives and work of Richard Rolle, Walter Hilton, and Margery Kempe, hermits and mystics, who, passing through the cloud of unknowing, beheld thy glory. Help us, after their examples, to see thee more clearly and love thee more dearly, in the Name of Jesus Christ our Savior; who with thee and the Holy Spirit livest and reignest, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

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Posted September 28, 2010 at 5:40 am [Printer Friendly] [Print w/ comments]



1. Archer_of_the_Forest wrote:

I am not exactly sure why Margery Kempe is considered a hermit or mystic.

September 28, 6:49 am | [comment link]
2. A Senior Priest wrote:

I’m not exactly sure why these three have been conflated in the first place. But, since I don’t use this absurd list I suppose it doesn’t matter.

September 28, 9:57 am | [comment link]
3. Ross Gill wrote:

Today is also the feast day for St Wenceslas.

September 28, 12:43 pm | [comment link]
4. William Witt wrote:

I don’t think Walter Hilton would have been exactly happy about being included in the same company with Margery Kempe and Richard Rolle.  It’s a bit like having a common feast day for Thomas More and Thomas Cranmer.  I suppose there is a sense in which one could argue that both were martyrs.  However . . .

September 28, 6:31 pm | [comment link]
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