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Sentence
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I chose you and appointed you, says the Lord; that you should go and bear fruit, fruit that will last. (John 15:16)
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Collect
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Almighty God, who in the place of Judas chose your faithful servant Matthias to be numbered among the Twelve: Grant that your Church, being delivered from false apostles, may always be guided and governed by faithful and true pastors; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
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