And what the Holy Spirit has done for his Church, he does also for each individual member who does not resist him.  For there are members of the Church who resist the Holy Spirit, who do not want to be converted, who do not want to grow in holiness, who only wish for God to leave them alone in their respectability.

But there are others who open their hearts to the cleansing and vitalising breeze of the Holy Spirit, who want their souls to be temples of God, made clean and kept clean for him to dwell in, so that they may become the kind of people the all-holy God wants them to be, whatever personal sacrifice of their selfish instincts or their selfish interests that may mean: people whose prayer is that they may persevere in their following of him until the time comes for him to call them home.

Such souls are indeed the living temples of the Holy Spirit, and let us pray that each of us may be numbered among them.  And let us pray that, like Peter and the first Apostles, in the power of the Holy Spirit, we may proclaim the Gospel in word and deed and continue our Master’s work, drawing others into the Family of the Church.  And may the people of our land be freed from the tyranny of secularism and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.

Collect for the Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity

God, who in generous mercy sent the Holy Spirit
       upon your Church in the burning fire of your love:
grant that your people may be fervent
in the fellowship of the gospel
that, always abiding in you,
they may be found steadfast in faith and active in service;
through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord,
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever. (4)

References

1. Wakeman, H.O. (4th edition) (1897) An introduction to the history of the Church of England, London: Rivington, Percival & Co.

2. Mozley, T. (1882) Reminiscences chiefly of Oriel College and the Oxford Movement, Volume 1, London: Longmans Green and Co, p.273.  Available from:
http://archive.org/stream/reminiscencesch01mozlgoog#page/n304/mode/2up (Accessed 09 May 2013) (Internet).

3. Cited in Addison, W. (1947) The English country parson, London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, p.151.

4. ©The Archbishops' Council of the Church of England (2004) Common Worship Collects and Post Communions in Contemporary Language.  Available from:
http://www.churchofengland.org/prayer-worship/worship/texts/collects-and-post-communions/contemporary-language/postwhit.aspx (Accessed 10 May 2013) (Internet).