stranger from his right, and fear not and prayers night and day. And me, saith the LORD of hosts. The Gospel. St. Luke ii. 22. she, coming in that instant, gave thanks likewise unto the LORD, and spake of him to all them that looked for redemption in Jerusalem. And when they had performed all things according to the law of the LORD, AND when the days of her purification, according to the law of Moses, were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem to present him to they returned into Galilee, to their the LORD, (as it is written in the law own city Nazareth. And the child of the LORD, Every male that open- grew, and waxed strong in spirit, eth the womb shall be called holy to filled with wisdom; and the grace the LORD,) and to offer a sacrifice, of GOD was upon him. according to that which is said in the SAINT MATTHIAS'S DAY. The Collect. law of the LORD, A pair of turtle*loves, or two young pigeons. And behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the HOLY GHOST was upon him. to be of the number of the twelve O ALMIGHTY GOD, who into the place of the traitor Judas, didst choose thy faithful servant Matthias, apostles; grant that thy Church, be And it was revealed unto hiin by the HOLY GHOST, that he should not see death, before he had seen the LORD's CHRIST. And he came by the SPIRIT into the temple; and when the parents brought in the child JESUS, to do for him after the custom of the law, then took he him up in his arms, the midst of the disciples, and said, and blessed GOD, and said, LORD, (the number of the names together now lettest thou thy servant depart in were about a hundred and twenty ;) peace, according to thy word: for Men and brethren, this Scripture mine eyes have seen thy salvation; must needs have been fulfilled, which which thou hast prepared before the the HOLY GHOST by the mouth of face of all people; a light to lighten David spake before concerning Judas, the Gentiles, and the glory of thy who was guide to them that took JE people Israel. And Joseph and his mo- sus. For he was numbered with ther marvelled at those things which us, and had obtained part of this were spoken of him. And Simeon ministry. Now this man purchased blessed them, and said unto Mary a field with the reward of iniquity; his mother, Behold, this child is set and falling headlong, he burst asun. for the fall and rising again of many der in the midst, and all his bowels in Israel; and for a sign which shall gushed out. And it was known to all be spoken against, (yea, a sword the dwellers at Jerusalem; insomuch shall pierce through thy own soul as that field is called in their proper also,) that the thoughts of many tongue, Aceldama, that is to say, The hearts may be revealed. And there field of blood. For it is written in the was one Anna, a prophetess, the book of Psalms, Let his habitation be daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of desolate, and let no man dwell there Aser; she was of a great age, and in: and his bishopric let another take. had lived with a husband seven years Wherefore of these men, which have from her virginity; and she was a companied with us all the time that widow of about fourscore and four the Lord JESUS went in and out years, which departed not from the among us, beginning from the baptism temple, but served GOD with fastings of John, unto that same day that he was taken up from us, must one be sign of the LORD thy God; ask it ordained to be a witness with us of either in the depth, or in the height his resurrection. And they appoint- above. But Ahaz said, I will not ed two, Joseph called Barsabas, who ask, neither will I tempt the LORD. was surnamed Justus, and Matthias. And he said, Hear ye now, O house And they prayed, and said, Thou, of David; Is it a small thing for you LORD, which knowest the hearts of to weary men, but will ye weary my all men, show whether of these two GOD also? Therefore the LORD himtheu hast chosen; that he may take self shall give you a sign: Behold, a part of this ministry and apostleship, virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, from which Judas by transgression and shall call his name Immanuel. fell, that he might go to his own place. And they gave forth their lots; and the lot fell upon Matthias. And he was numbered with the eleven apostles. Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good. The Gospel. St. Luke 1. 26. The Gospel. St. Matt. xi. 25. AND in the sixth month, the angel AT that time JESUS answered, and Gabriel was sent from GOD unto a said, I thank thee, O Father, LORD city of Galilee, named Nazareth, to of heaven and earth, because thou a virgin espoused to a man whose hast hid these things from the wise name was Joseph, of the house of and prudent, and hast revealed them David; and the virgin's name was unto bates. Even so, Father, for so Mary. And the angel came in unto it seemed good in thy sight. All her, and said, Hail, thou that art things are delivered unto me of my highly favored, the LORD is with Father; and no man knoweth the thee; blessed art thou among women. SON, but the FATHER, neither know- And when she saw him, she was eth any man the FATHER, save the troubled at his saying, and cast in SON, and he to whomsoever the SON her mind what manner of salutation will reveal him. Come unto me all this should be. And the angel said ye that labor and are heavy laden, and unto her, Fear not, Mary; for thou I will give you rest. Take my yoke hast found favor with God. And upon you, and learn of ine; for I am behold thou shalt conceive in thy meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burthen is light.. THE ANNUNCIATION OF THE The Collect. WE beseech thee, O LORD, pour thy grace into our hearts; that as we man? And the angel answered and 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 unto the glory of his resurrection, through the same JESUS CHRIST Our Lord. Amen. For the Epistie. Isa. vii. 10. MOREOVER, the LORD spake again unto Alhaz, saying, Ask thee a womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name Jesus. He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest; and the LORD GOD shall give unto him the throne of his father David. And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end. Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a said unto her, The HOLY GHOST shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee, shall be called the Son of God. And behold, thy cousin Elizabeth, she hath also con. ceived a son in her old age; and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren. For with God no thing shall be impossible. And Mary increase of the body, unto the edifysaid, Behold the handmaid of the ing of itself in love. LORD, be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her SAINT MARK'S DAY. The Collect. O ALMIGHTY GOD, who hast instructed thy holy Church with the heavenly doctrine of thy evangelist Saint Mark; give us grace, that being not like children carried away with every blast of vain doctrine, we may be established in the truth of thy holy Gospel, through JESUS CHRIST our Lord. Amen. The Gospel. St. John xv. 1. I AM the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that bearetlı not fruit, ne taketh away; and every branch that bear. eth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. If a man abide not in The Epistle. Ephes. iv. 7. UNTO every one of us is given me, he is cast forth as a branch, grace, according to the measure of and is withered; and men gather the gift of CHRIST. Wherefore he them, and cast them into the fire, and saith, When he ascended up on high, they are burned. If ye abide in me, he led captivity captive, and gave and my words abide in you, ye shall gifts unto men. (Now that he as- ask what ye will, and it shall be done cended, what is it but that he also unto you. Herein is my Father glo. descended first into the lower parts of rified, that ye bear much fruit; so the earth? He that descended is the shall ye be my disciples. As the same also that ascended up far above Father hath loved me, so have I loved all heavens, that he might fill all you: continue ye in my love. If ye things.) And he gave some apostles, keep my commandments, ye shall and some prophets, and some evan- abide in my love; even as I have gelists, and some pastors and teach- kept my Father's commandments, ers; for the perfecting of the saints, and abide in his love. These things for the work of the ministry, for the have I spoken unto you, that my joy edifying of the body of CHRIST; till might remain in you, and that your we all come in the unity of the faith, joy might be full. and of the knowledge of the Son of GOD, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of CHRIST: that we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; but speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even CHRIST: from whom the whole body fitly joined together, and compacted Saint James, we may steadfastly by that which every joint supplieth, walk in the way that leadeth to eter. according to the effectual working in nal life, through the same thy Son the measure of every part, maketh JESUS CHRIST Our Lord. Amen. SAINT PHILIP AND SAINT The Collect. O ALMIGHTY GOD, whom truly to know is everlasting life; grant us perfectly to know thy Gon JESUS CHRIST to be the way, the truth, and the life; that following the steps of thy holy apostles, Saint Philip and The Epistle. St. James i. 1. life: no man cometh unto the Father JAMES, a servant of God, and but by me. If ye had known me, ye of the Lord JESUS CHRIST, to the should have known my Father also: twelve tribes which are scattered and from henceforth ye know him, abroad, greeting. My brethren, count and have seen him. Philip saith unit all joy when ye fall into divers to him, LORD, show us the Father, temptations: knowing this, that the and it sufficeth us. JESUS saith unto trying of your faith worketh patience. him, Have I been so long time with But let patience have her perfect you, and yet hast thou not known work, that ye may be perfect and en- me, Philip? He that hath seen me, tire, wanting nothing. If any of you hath seen the Father; and how saylack wisdom, let him ask of God, est thou then, Show us the Father? that giveth to all men liberally, and Believest thou not that I am in the upbraideth not; and it shall be given Father, and the Father in me? The him. But let him ask in faith, words that I speak unto you, I speak nothing wavering: for he that was not of myself; but the Father that vereth is like a wave of the sea, driven dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. with the wind, and tossed. For let Believe me, that I am in the Father, not that man think that he shall re- and the Father in me; or else believe ceive any thing of the LORD. A me for the very works' sake. Verily, double-minded man is unstable in all verily, I say unto you, He that behis ways. Let the brother of low lieveth on me, the works that I do degree rejoice in that he is exalted, shall he do also; and greater works but the rich in that he is made low: than these shall he do; because I go because as the flower of the grass be unto my Father. And whatsoever shall pass away. For the sun is no ye shall ask in any name, that will I sooner risen with a burning heat, but do, that the FATHER may be glori. it withereth the grass, and the flower fied in the SON. If ye shall ask any thereof falleth, and the grace of the thing in my name, I will do it. fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways. Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the LORD hath promised to them that love him. me. SAINT BARNABAS THE APOSTLE, The Collect. O LORD GOD Almighty, who didst endue thy holy apostle Barnabas with singular gifts of the HOLY GHOST; leave us not, we beseech The Gospel. St. John xiv. 1. thee, destitute of thy manifold gifts, nor yet of grace to use them alway to thy honor and glory, through JESUS CHRIST our Amen. AND JESUS said unto his disciples, Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in In my Father's house are many For the Epistle. Acts xi. 22. mansions; if it were not so, I would TIDINGS of these things came have told you. I go to prepare a unto the ears of the Church which place for you. And if I go and pre- was in Jerusalem: and they sent pare a place for you, I will come forth Barnabas, that he should go as again, and receive you unto myself; far as Antioch: who, when he came, that where I am, there ye may be and had seen the grace of GOD, was also. And whither I go, ye know, glad; and exhorted them all, that and the way ye know. Thomas saith with purpose of heart they would unto him, LORD, we know not whi- cleave unto the LORD. For he was ther thou goest, and how can we a good man, and full of the HOLY know_the way? JESUS saith unto GHOST, and of faith: and much peo him, I am the way, the truth, and the ple was added unto the LORD. Then departed Barnabas to Tarsus for to the truth's sake, through JESUS seek Sacs: and when he had found CHRIST Our Lord. Amen. him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it cane to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the Church, and taught much people: and the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch. And in these days came prophets from Jerusalem For the Epistle. Isa. xl. 1. plished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hatlı received or the LORD'S The unto Antioch. And there stood up hand double for all her sins. one of them, named Agabus, and voice of him that crieth in the wilsignified by the SPIRIT, that, there should be great dearth throughout all derness, Prepare ye the way of the the world: which came to pass in LORD, make straight in the desert a the days of Claudius Cæsar. Then highway for our God. Every val. the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in Judea. Which also they did, and sent it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul. ley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain. And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it. The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is The Gospel. St. John xv. 12. THIS is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than as the flower of the field. The grass this, that a man lay down his life for withereth, the flower fadeth, because his friends. Ye are my friends, if the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon ye do whatsoever I command you. it: surely the people is grass. The Henceforth I call you not servants; grass whereth, the flower fadeth: for the servant knoweth not what his but the word of our God shall stand lord doeth: but I have called you for ever. O Zion, that bringest good friends; for all things that I have tidings, get thee up into the high heard of my Father, I have made mountain: O Jerusalem, that bring. known unto you. Ye have not chosen est good tidings, lift up thy voice me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. SAINT JOHN BAPTIST'S DAY. 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, and shall gently lead those that are with young. ALMIGHTY GOD, by whose providence thy servant John Baptist was wonderfully born, and sent to prepare The Gospel. St. Luke i. 57. the way of thy Son our Saviour, by ELIZABETH'S full time came preaching repentance; make us so to that she should be delivered; and she follow his doctrine and holy life, that brought forth a son. And her neighwe may truly repent according to his bors and her cousins heard how the preaching; and after his example LORD had showed great mercy upon constantly speak the truth, boldly re- her; and they rejoiced with her. Duke vice, and patiently suffer for And it came to pass, that on the eighth : |