Sunday of II Class, Semidouble

INTROIT

Exsurge (Psalm 44)

  Up, Lord, why sleepest thou?
  Awake and be not absent from us for ever:
  Wherefore hidest thou thy face?
  And forgettest our misery and trouble?
  Our belly cleaveth unto the ground:
  Arise, and help us, and deliver us. §

  O God, we have heard with our ears
  Our fathers have declared unto us.
  Glory be ...
  As it was ...

(Repeat to §.)

O LORD God, who seest that we put not our trust in any thing that we do; Mercifully grant that by thy power we may be defended against all adversity; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

§ The other Collects shall be said as below or as on December 30th.

COLLECT 2  Of the Saints

Defend us, O Lord, we beseech thee, from all dangers both of body and soul: and at the intercession of thy blessed and glorious ever-Virgin Mary, Mother of God, of blessed Joseph, of thy holy Apostles Peter and Paul, of blessed N., and of all thy Saints, grant us thy saving health and peace:; that being defended from all adversities and all false doctrines, thy Church may serve thee in all freedom and quietness.  (Through.)

COLLECT 3  Ad Libitum
 

THE EPISTLE

II Corinthians 11.19-31

YE suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise. For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face. I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also. Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I. Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not? If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities. The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.

GRADUAL

  (Psalm 83) Let the heathen know that thou, whose Name is Jehovah:
Art only the Most Highest over all the earth.
  O my God, make them like unto a wheel:
And as the stubble before the wind.

The following Tract is said on Sundays only.

TRACT

  (Psalm 60) Thou hast moved the land, O Lord,
And divided it.
  Heal the sores thereof,
For it shaketh.
That they may triumph because of the truth:
That thy beloved may be delivered.

THE GOSPEL

St. Luke 8.4-15

WHEN much people were gathered together, and were come to him out of every city, he spake by a parable: A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way-side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it. And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture. And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it. And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit an hundredfold. And when he had said these things, he cried, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. And his disciples asked him, saying, What might this parable be? And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand. Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. Those by the way-side are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved. They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away. And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection. But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.

The Creed is said.

OFFERTORY  Psalm 17

O hold thou up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not: incline thine ear to me, and hearken unto my words: shew thy marvellous loving-kindness, O Lord, thou that art the Saviour of them which put their trust in thee.

SECRET

We beseech thee, O Lord, that this sacrifice, which we offer unto thee, may evermore avail to quicken and defend us.  Through.

§ The other Secrets shall be said as below or as on December 30th.

SECRET 2 Of the Saints

Graciously hear us, O God of our salvation, and by the power of this Sacrament defend us from all dangers both of body and soul: granting us in this world the succour of thy grace, and in the world to come life everlasting.  (Through).

SECRET 3 Ad Libitum

COMMUNION  Pslam 43

I will go unto the altar of God: even unto the God of my joy and gladness.

POSTCOMMUNION

We humbly beseech thee, Almighty God: that we whom thou dost vouchsafe to regenerate with thy holy sacraments; may continually serve thee in all virtuous and godly living.  Through.

§ The other Postcommunions shall be said as below or as on December 30th.

POSTCOMMUNION 2  Of the Saints

Grant, we beseech thee, O Lord, that the gifts now offered by us in these holy mysteries may evermore cleanse and defend us: that at the intercession of the blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, of blessed Joseph, of thy holy Apostles Peter and Paul, of blessed N., and of all thy Saints, we may be absolved from all our offences and defended against al adversities.  (Through.)

POSTCOMMUNION 3  Ad Libitum

V.  Let us bless the Lord.
R.  Thanks be to God.

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