Christ has redeemed us with blood, our hearts he has won and holds, and we are his own, though we are in the world. Holy Father, keep your people we beseech you, for Jesus’ sake: though they are in the world let them not be of it; but may there be a marked distinction between them and the rest of mankind.
Even as their Lord was “holy, harmless, undefiled, and separate from sinners,” so may it be with believers in Christ. May they follow him; and may they not know the voice of strangers, but come out from the rest, that they may follow him without the camp.
Amen.