18 February 2024 Collect O Lord, who for our sake didst fast forty days and forty nights; Give us grace to use such abstinence, that, our flesh being subdued to the Spirit, we may ever obey thy godly motions in righteousness, and true holiness, to thy honour and glory, who livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy Spirit, one God, world without end. … Continue reading The lectionary for the first Sunday in Lent
11 February 2024 Collect O Lord, who hast taught us that all our doings without charity are nothing worth; Send thy Holy Spirit, and pour into our hearts that most excellent gift of charity, the very bond of peace and of all virtues, without which whosoever liveth is counted dead before thee; Grant this for thine only Son Jesus Christ’s sake. Amen. The First Reading: … Continue reading The lectionary for the Sunday before Lent
4 February 2024 Collect O Lord God,who seest that we put not our trustin any thing that we do;Mercifully grant that by thy powerwe may be defended against all adversity;through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. The First Reading: Proverbs 8: 1, 22-31 Does not wisdom call, and does not understanding raise her voice? The Lord created me at the beginning of his work, the first … Continue reading The lectionary for the second Sunday before Lent
28 January 2024 Collect O God,who knowest us to be setin the midst of so many and great dangers,that by reason of the frailty of our naturewe cannot always stand upright;Grant to us such strength and protection,as may support us in all dangers,and carry us through all temptations;through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. The First Reading: Deuteronomy 18: 15-20 The Lord your God will raise … Continue reading The lectionary for the fourth Sunday after The Epiphany
21 January 2024 Collect Almighty and everlasting God,Mercifully look upon our infirmities,and in all our dangers and necessitiesstretch forth thy right hand to help and defend us;through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. The First Reading: Jonah 3: 1-5, 10 The word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time, saying, ‘Get up, go to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim to it the message … Continue reading The lectionary for the third Sunday after The Epiphany
14 January 2024 Collect Almighty and everlasting God,who dost govern all things in heaven and earth;Mercifully hear the supplications of thy people,and grant us thy peace all the days of our life;through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. First Reading: 1 Samuel 3: 1-10, (11-20) Now the boy Samuel was ministering to the Lord under Eli. The word of the Lord was rare in those days; … Continue reading The lectionary for the second Sunday after The Epiphany
7 January 2024 Collect O Lord,we beseech thee mercifully to receivethe prayers of thy people which call upon thee;and grant that they may both perceive and knowwhat things they ought to do,and also may have grace and powerfaithfully to fulfil the same;through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. The First Reading: Genesis 1: 1-5 In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, the … Continue reading The lectionary for the first Sunday after The Epiphany: The Baptism of Christ
3 December 2023 Collect 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 … Continue reading The lectionary for the first Sunday of Advent
8 October 2023 Collect Almighty and everlasting God: increase in us your gift of faith that, forsaking what lies behind, we may run the way of your commandments and win the crown of everlasting joy; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. The First Reading: Exodus 20: 1-4, 7-9, 12-20 Then God spoke all these words: I am the Lord your God, who brought you out … Continue reading The lectionary for the eighteenth Sunday after Trinity
25 June 2023 Collect O Lord,we beseech thee mercifully to hear us;and grant that we, to whom thou hast givenan hearty desire to pray,may by thy mighty aid be defended and comfortedin all dangers and adversities;through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. The First Reading: Genesis 21: 8-21 The child grew, and was weaned; and Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was … Continue reading The lectionary for the third Sunday after Trinity
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