Prayers for Feast Day - Mother Teresa of Calcutta - Collect - Mass - September 5 -

COLLECT
God, who called blessed Teresa, virgin
to respond to the love of your Son thirsting on the cross
with outstanding charity to the poorest of the poor,
grant us, we beseech you, by her intercession,
to minister to Christ in his suffering brothers.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ your Son 
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, 
one God, for ever and ever. Amen. 

PRAYER OVER THE OFFERINGS
Receive, O God, the homage of our humble service, 
which we present to you on the solemnity
of St Teresa of Calcutta, 
and grant that, by participation in this mystery, 
our lives may burn with charity, 
and be consumed with zeal for the salvation of souls. 
through Christ our Lord.  AMEN.