Hear, Mark, Learn, and Inwardly Digest

A reflection on the Collect for Proper 28 (The Sunday closest to November 16)

Yesterday was the Twenty-sixth Sunday after Pentecost, and the Collect of the Day (and for the rest of the week) is Proper 28 (The Sunday closest to November 16):

Blessed Lord, who caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning: Grant us so to hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that we may embrace and ever hold fast the bl…