Uses the return of spring to ask for renewed faith, hope, and love that endure into eternal life.
Historical edition. Historical claims and instructions are preserved as historical context.
ALMIGHTY GOD, Who bringest forth again the fruits of the earth, be pleased to renew within us, by Thy divine Spirit, the life that the care and cold of this world have caused to fade, that we, bringing forth even in this world the perpetual bloom of faith and hope and charity, may pass into the land of eternal light and life, there to abide for evermore, through Jesus Christ our Lord.—AMEN.