INTROIT

Veni et ostende (Psalm 80)

Priest:   Come and show us the light of thy countenance, O Lord,
People:   Thou that sittest upon the Cherubims: and we shall be whole.  §

Priest: Hear, O thou Shepherd of Israel:
People: Thou that leadest Joseph like a sheep.
Priest: Glory be ...
People: As it was ...

(Repeat to §.)

After Kyrie eleison is said forthwith: Let us pray.  Let us bow the knee.  R. Arise.
 

THE COLLECT

O God, who seest us to be sore afflicted by reason of the frailty of our mortal nature: grant, we beseech thee, that we may be relieved by thy gracious visitation.  Who livest and reignest with the Father.

THE LESSON

Isaiah 19.20-22

In those days: They shall cry unto the LORD because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.  And the Lord shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the LORD in that day, and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto the LORD, and perform it.  And the Lord shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and they shall return even to the Lord, and he shall be intreated of them, and shall heal them,even the Lord our God..
 
GRADUAL

Priest:   (Psalm 19) He goeth forth from the uttermost part of the heaven:
People:   And runneth about unto the end of it again.
Priest:   The heavens declare the glory of God:
People:   And the firmament sheweth his handy-work.

Let us pray/  Let us bow the knee.  R. Arise.

COLLECT

Grant, we beseech thee, Almighty God: that we, who as at this time await the Birth of thy only-begotten Son, may thereby be delivered from the bondage of the sins which aforetime we have committed.  Through the same.

LESSON

Isaiah 35.1-7a

Thus saith the Lord: The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.  It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the LORD, and the excellency of our God.  Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.  Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you. Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.  And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water.

GRADUAL

Priest:   (Psalm 19) In heaven hath se set a tabernacle for the sun:
People:   Which cometh forth as a bridegroom out of his chamber.
Priest:   He goeth forth from the uttermost part of the heaven:
People:   And runneth about unto the end of it again.

Let us pray.  Let us bow the knee:  R. Arise.

COLLECT

O Lord, we pray thee, that we thine unworthy servants, who now bewail the guilt of our misdoings: may be gladdened by the coming of thy only-begotten Son.  Who liveth and reigneth with thee.

LESSON

Isaiah 40.9-11

Thus saith the Lord: O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!  Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.  He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, he the Lord our God.

GRADUAL

Priest:   (Psalm 80) Turn us again, O Lord, God of Hosts:
People:   Shew the light of thy countenance and we shall be whole.
Priest:   Stir up thy strength.O Lord.
People:   And come and help us.

Let us pray.  Let us bow the knee:  R. Arise.

COLLECT

Grant, we beseech thee, Almighty God: that the coming festival of thy Son may avail for the healing of our souls in this present life, and obtain for us in that which is to come the rewards of eternal felicity.  Through the same.

LESSON

Isaiah 45.1-8

Thus saith the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;  I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:  And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the Lord, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.  For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.  I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:  That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the Lord, and there is none else.  I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.  Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the Lord have created it.
 
GRADUAL

Priest:   (Psalm 80) Stir up thy strength, O Lord,
People:   And come and help us.
Priest:   Hear, O thou Shepherd of Israel;
People:   Thou that leadest Joseph like a sheep.
Priest:   Shew thyself, thou that sittest upon theCherubims,
People:   Before Ephraim, Benjamin and Manasses.

Let us pray.  Let us bow the knee:  R. Arise.

COLLECT

O Lord, we beseech thee, favourably to hear the prayers of thy people: that we, who are justly punished for our offences, may be comforted by the visitation of thy mercy.  Through.

LESSON

Song of the Three Children 26-28

In those days: The Angel of the Lord came down into the oven together with Azarias and his fellows, and smote the flame of the fire out of the oven; and made the midst of the furnace as it had been a moist whistling wind, so that the fire touched them not at all, neither hurt nor troubled them.  Then the three, as out of one mouth, praised, glorified, and blessed, God in the furnace, saying:

Here Thanks be to God is not said.

HYMN  Song of the Three Children 29
 
Blessed are thou, O Lord God of our fathers.  And to be praised and magnified all for ever.
And blessed is thy glorious and holy Name.  And to be praised and magnified all for ever.
Blessed art thou in the temple of thy holiness.  And to be praised and magnified all for ever.
Blessed art thou on the glorious throne of thy kingdom.  And to be praised and magnified all for ever.
Blessed art thou in the sceptre of thy Godhead.  And to be praised and magnified all for ever.
Blessed art thou that beholdest the depths, and dwellest between the Cherubims.  And to be praised and magnified all for ever.
Blessed art thou that walkest on the wings of the winds, and on the waves of the sea.  And to be praised and magnified all for ever.
Let all thine Angels and Saints bless thee.  And praise thee and magnify thee above all for ever.
Let the heavens, the earth, the sea, and all that in them is, bless thee.  And praise thee and magnify thee above all for ever.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.  And worthy to be praised and magnified above all for ever.
As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be: world without end.  Amen.  And worthy to be praised and magnified above all for ever.
Blessed art thou, O Lord God of our fathers.  And worthy to be praised and magnified above all for ever.
 

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Here is not said Let us bow the knee, but V. The Lod be with you. Let us pray.

COLLECT

O God, who for the deliverance of the three children didst assuage the flames of fire: mercifully grant that the fiery assaults of temptation may have no power upon us thy servants.  Through.

COLLECT 2  Of Advent

ALMIGHTY God, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life, in which thy Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty to judge both the quick and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal.  Through the same Jesus Christ thy Son, our Lord.  Who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end.  Amen.

COLLECT 3  Of Saint Mary

O GOD, who didst vouchsafe that thy Word should be made flesh in the womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary at the message of an Angel: grant to us thy humble servants ; that we, believing her to be indeed the Mother of God, may by her intercession find favour in thy sight. Through the same Jesus Christ thy Son, our Lord.  Who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end.  Amen.

OR

COLLECT 3 For those about to be ordained

Almighty God, our heavenly Father, who hast purchased to thyself an universal Church by the precious blod of thy dear Son: mercifully look upon the same, and at this time so guide and govern the minds of thy servants the Bishops and Pastors of thy flock, that they may lay hands suddenly on no man, but faithfully and wisely make choice of fit persons, to serve inthe sacred Ministry of thy Church.  And to those who shall be ordained to any holy function, give thy grace and heavenly benediction; that both by their life and doctrine they may shew forth thy glory, and set forward the salvation of all men.  Through Jesus Christ our Lord.  [Who.]

THE EPISTLE

Ii Thessalonians 2.1-8

Brethren: We beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,  That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.  Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;  Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?  And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.  For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:

TRACT Psalm 80

Priest:   Hear, O thou Shepherd of Israel:
People:   Thou that keadest Joseph like a sheep.
Priest:   Shew thyself, thou that sittest uon the Cherubims,
People:   Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasses.
Priest:   Stir up thy strength,O Lord:
People:   And come and help us.
 

THE GOSPEL

St. Luke 3.1-6

In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene,  Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.  And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins;  As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.  Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth;  And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.
 
OFFERTORY Zecharaiah 9

Rejoice greatly, o daughter of Sion, shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh untno thee, he is just, and having salvation.

SECRET

We beseech thee, O Lord. ,ercifully to have respect unto these our oblations: that the same may be profitable unto us for ourincrease in all godliness, and for the attainment of everlasting salvation.  Through.

SECRET 2  Of Advent

Grant, we beseech thee, O Lord, that the effectual power of these thy holy mysteries may in such wise cleanse us from all our iniquities that we may in all purity attain unto him who is the author of the same, even Jesus Christ, thy Son, our Lord.  Who liveth and reigneth with thee.

SECRET 3  Of Saint Mary

We beseech thee, O Lord, stablish in our hearts the mysteries of thy true religion: that, as we do believe thy Son, conceived of a virgin, to be very God and very man, so by the power of his resurrection we may be found worthy to attain to everlasting felicity.  (Through the same.)
 

COMMUNION  Psalm 19

He rejoiceth as a giant to run his course: he goeth forth from the uttermost part of theheaven, and runneth about unto the end of it again.

POSTCOMMUNION

Grant, we beseech thee, O Lord our God: that these holy mysteries which thou hast given unto us for the assurance of our salvation, may both in this life and in that which is to come be profitable unto us for the healing of our souls.  Through.

POSTCOMMUNION 2  Of Advent

Grant to us, O Lord, we beseech thee: so to wait for thy loving kindness in the midst of thy Temple, that in readiness of heart and mind we may hail the coming feast of our redemption.  Through.

POSTCOMMUNION 3  Of Saint Mary

We beseech thee, O Lord, pour thy grace into our hearts: that as we have known the incarnation of thy Son Jesus Christ by the message of an Angel; so by his cross and passion we may be brought to the glory of his resurrection.  (Through the same.)
 
 

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