Sentences of Scripture.
O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness; let the whole earth stand
in awe of him. Psalm xcvi. 9.
Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be alway
acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength and my redeemer.
Psalm xix. 14.
General Confession & Absolution
O Lord, open thou our lips.
Answer. And our mouth shall show forth thy praise.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost;
Answer. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,
world without end. Amen.
Minister. Praise ye the Lord.
Answer. The Lord's Name be praised.
The Psalter
The Psalter (First Set of Propers)
Psalm 48
The Forty-Eighth Psalm
Magnus Dominus.
GREAT is the LORD, and highly to be praised * in the city of our God, even upon his holy hill.
The hill of Sion is a fair place, and the joy of the whole earth; * upon the north side lieth the city of the
great King: God is well known in her palaces as a sure refuge.
For lo, the kings of the earth * were gathered, and gone by together.
They marvelled to see such things; * they were astonished, and suddenly cast down.
Fear came there upon them; and sorrow, * as upon a woman in her travail.
Thou dost break the ships of the sea * through the east-wind.
Like as we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God; * God
upholdeth the same for ever.
We wait for thy loving-kindness, O God, * in the midst of thy temple.
O God, according to thy Name, so is thy praise unto the world's end; * thy right hand is full of
righteousness.
Let the mount Sion rejoice, and the daughters of Judah be glad, * because of thy judgments.
Walk about Sion, and go round about her; * and tell the towers thereof.
Mark well her bulwarks, consider her palaces, * that ye may tell them that come after.
For this God is our God for ever and ever: * he shall be our guide unto death.
Psalm 126
The One Hundred Twenty Sixth Psalm
In convertendo.
WHEN the LORD turned again the captivity of Sion,
* then were we like unto them that dream.
Then was our mouth filled with laughter,
* and our tongue with joy.
Then said they among the heathen,
* The LORD hath done great things for them.
Yea, the LORD hath done great things for us already;
* whereof we rejoice.
Turn our captivity, O LORD,
* as the rivers in the south.
They that sow in tears
* shall reap in joy.
He that now goeth on his way weeping,
and beareth forth good seed,
* shall doubtless come again with joy,
and bring his sheaves with him.
The Psalter (Second Set of Propers)
Psalm 18:1-20
The Eighteenth Psalm
Diligam te, Domine.
I WILL love thee, O LORD, my strength.
* The LORD is my stony rock, and my defence;
My Saviour, my God, and my might, in whom
I will trust;
* my buckler, the horn also of my salvation,
and my refuge.
I will call upon the LORD, which is worthy
to be praised;
* so shall I be safe from mine enemies.
The sorrows of death compassed me,
* and the overflowings of ungodliness made me afraid.
The pains of hell came about me;
* the snares of death overtook me.
In my trouble I called upon the LORD,
* and complained unto my God:
So he heard my voice out of his holy temple,
* and my complaint came before him; it entered
even into his ears.
The earth trembled and quaked,
* the very foundations also of the hills shook, and
were removed, because he was wroth.
There went a smoke out in his presence,
* and a consuming fire out of his mouth, so that
coals were kindled at it.
He bowed the heavens also, and came down,
* and it was dark under his feet.
He rode upon the Cherubim, and did fly;
* he came flying upon the wings of the wind.
He made darkness his secret place,
* his pavilion round about him with dark water,
and thick clouds to cover him.
At the brightness of his presence his clouds removed;
* hailstones and coals of fire.
The LORD also thundered out of heaven, and the
Highest gave his thunder;
* hailstones and coals of fire.
He sent out his arrows, and scattered them;
* he cast forth lightnings, and destroyed them.
The springs of waters were seen, and the foundations of
the round world were discovered,
* at thy chiding, O LORD, at the blasting of the breath
of thy displeasure.
He sent down from on high to fetch me,
* and took me out of many waters.
He delivered me from my strongest enemy, and from
them which hate me;
* for they were too mighty for me
They came upon me in the day of my trouble;
* but the LORD was my upholder.
He brought me forth also into a place of liberty;
* he brought me forth, even because he had a
favour unto me.
vs 21 The LORD rewarded me after my righteous dealing,
* according to the cleanness of my hands did he
recompense me.
Because I have kept the ways of the LORD,
* and have not forsaken my God, as the wicked doth.
For I have an eye unto all his laws,
* and will not cast out his commandments from me.
I was also uncorrupt before him,
* and eschewed mine own wickedness.
Therefore the LORD rewarded me after my
righteous dealing,
* and according unto the cleanness of my hands
in his eyesight.
With the holy thou shalt be holy,
* and with a perfect man thou shalt be perfect.
With the clean thou shalt be clean,
* and with the froward thou shalt be froward.
For thou shalt save the people that are in adversity,
* and shalt bring down the high looks of the proud.
Thou also shalt light my candle;
* the LORD my God shall make my darkness to be light.
For in thee I shall discomfit an host of men,
* and with the help of my God I shall leap over the wall.
The way of God is an undefiled way:
* the word of the LORD also is tried in the fire; he is the
defender of all them that put their trust in him.
For who is God, but the LORD?
* or who hath any strength, except our God?
It is God that girdeth me with strength of war,
* and maketh my way perfect.
He maketh my feet like harts' feet,
* and setteth me up on high.
He teacheth mine hands to fight,
* and mine arms shall bend even a bow of steel.
vs 36 Thou hast given me the defence of thy salvation;
* thy right hand also shall hold me up, and thy loving
correction shall make me great.
Thou shalt make room enough under me for to go,
* that my footsteps shall not slide.
I will follow upon mine enemies, and overtake them;
* neither will I turn again till I have destroyed them.
I will smite them, that they shall not be able to stand,
* but fall under my feet.
Thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle;
* thou shalt throw down mine enemies under me.
Thou hast made mine enemies also to turn their
backs upon me,
* and I shall destroy them that hate me.
They shall cry, but there shall be none to help them;
* yea, even unto the LORD shall they cry, but he shall
not hear them.
I will beat them as small as the dust before the wind:
* I will cast them out as the clay in the streets.
Thou shalt deliver me from the strivings of the people,
* and thou shalt make me the head of the nations; a people
whom I have not known shall serve me.
As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me;
* the strangers shall feign obedience unto me.
The strangers shall fail,
* and come trembling out of their strongholds.
The LORD liveth; and blessed be my strong helper,
* and praised be the God of my salvation;
Even the God that seeth that I be avenged,
* and subdueth the people unto me.
It is he that delivereth me from my cruel enemies,
and setteth me up above mine adversaries:
* thou shalt rid me from the wicked man.
For this cause will I give thanks unto thee, O LORD,
among the Gentiles,
* and sing praises unto thy Name.
Great prosperity giveth he unto his King,
* and showeth loving-kindness unto David his anointed,
and unto his seed for evermore.
Gloria in excelsis.
GLORY be to God on high, and on earth peace, good will towards men. We
praise thee, we bless thee, we worship thee, we glorify thee, we give
thanks to thee for thy great glory, O Lord God, heavenly King, God the
Father Almighty.
O Lord, the only-begotten Son, Jesus Christ; O Lord God, Lamb of God, Son
of the Father, that takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon
us. Thou that takest away the sins of the world, receive our prayer.
Thou that sittest at the right hand of God the Father, have mercy upon
us. For thou only art holy; thou only art the Lord; thou only, O Christ,
with the Holy Ghost, art most high in the glory of God the Father. Amen.
The First Lesson (First Set of Propers)
Isaiah 62
For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the
righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth. And the
Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name,
which the mouth of the Lord shall name. Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and
a royal diadem in the hand of thy God. Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land
any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: for the Lord
delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married. For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons
marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee. I have set
watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make
mention of the Lord, keep not silence, And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem
a praise in the earth. The Lord hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will
no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine,
for the which thou has laboured: But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the Lord; and they
that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness. Go through, go through the gates;
prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for
the people. Behold, the Lord hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion,
Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him. And they shall
call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the Lord: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not
forsaken.
The First Lesson (Second Set of Propers)
Isaiah 13:6-13
Howl ye; for the day of the Lord is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt: And they shall be afraid: pangs and
sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one
at another; their faces shall be as flames. Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and
fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it. For the stars of
heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going
forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine. And I will punish the world for their evil, and the
wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the
haughtiness of the terrible. I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden
wedge of Ophir. Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the
wrath of the Lord of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
Magnificat. St. Luke i. 46.
MY soul doth magnify the Lord, * and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my
Saviour.
For he hath regarded * the lowliness of his handmaiden.
For behold, from henceforth * all generations shall call me blessed.
For he that is mighty hath magnified me; * and holy is his Name.
And his mercy is on them that fear him * throughout all generations.
He hath showed strength with his arm; * he hath scattered the proud in
the imagination of their hearts.
He hath put down the mighty from their seat, * and hath exalted the
humble and meek.
He hath filled the hungry with good things; * and the rich he hath sent
empty away.
He remembering his mercy hath holpen his servant Israel; * as he
promised to our forefathers,
Abraham and his seed, for ever.
Cantate Domino
Bonum est confiteri
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost;
As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
The Second Lesson (First Set of Propers)
St. Matthew 25:1-13
Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth
to meet the bridegroom. And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. They that were foolish took
their lamps, and took no oil with them: But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. While the
bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the
bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him. Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. And
the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out. But the wise answered,
saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for
yourselves. And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him
to the marriage: and the door was shut. Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open
to us. But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not. Watch therefore, for ye know
neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.
The Second Lesson (Second Set of Propers)
I Thessalonians 5:1-11
But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves
know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace
and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall
not escape. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all
the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us
not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that
be drunken are drunken in the night. But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of
faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation. For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to
obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should
live together with him. Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye
do.
Nunc Dimittis. St. Luke ii. 29.
LORD, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, * according to thy
word.
For mine eyes have seen * thy salvation,
Which thou hast prepared * before the face of all people;
To be a light to lighten the Gentiles, * and to be the glory of thy
people Israel.
Deus misereatur
Benedic, anima mea
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost;
As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
The Apostles' Creed.
I BELIEVE in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth:
And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord: Who was conceived by the Holy
Ghost, Born of the Virgin Mary: Suffered under Pontius Pilate, Was
crucified, dead, and buried: He descended into hell; The third day he
rose again from the dead: He ascended into heaven, And sitteth on the
right hand of God the Father Almighty: From thence he shall come to judge
the quick and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Ghost: The holy Catholic Church; The Communion of
Saints: The Forgiveness of sins: The Resurrection of the body: And the
Life everlasting. Amen.
The Lord be with you.
Answer. And with thy spirit.
Minister. Let us pray.
The Lord's Prayer.
OUR Father, who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done, On earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our
daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, As we forgive those who
trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, But deliver us
from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for
ever and ever. Amen.
Minister. O Lord, show thy mercy upon us.
Answer. And grant us thy salvation.
Minister. O Lord, save the State.
Answer. And mercifully hear us when we call upon thee.
Minister. Endue thy Ministers with righteousness.
Answer. And make thy chosen people joyful.
Minister. O Lord, save thy people.
Answer. And bless thine inheritance.
Minister. Give peace in our time, O Lord.
Answer. For it is thou, Lord, only, that makest us dwell in safety.
Minister. O God, make clean our hearts within us.
Answer. And take not thy Holy Spirit from us.
The Collect for the Day
The First Sunday in 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 him who liveth and reigneth with thee and the
Holy Ghost, now and ever. Amen.
A Collect for Peace.
O GOD, from whom all holy desires, all good counsels, and all just works
do proceed; Give unto thy servants that peace which the world cannot
give; that our hearts may be set to obey thy commandments, and also that
by thee, we, being defended from the fear of our enemies, may pass our
time in rest and quietness; through the merits of Jesus Christ our
Saviour. Amen.
A Collect for Aid against Perils.
LIGHTEN our darkness, we beseech thee, O Lord; and by thy great mercy
defend us from all perils and dangers of this night; for the love of thy
only Son, our Saviour, Jesus Christ. Amen.
A Prayer for the President of the United States
A Prayer for the Clergy and People.
Almighty and everlasting God, from whom cometh every good and perfect
gift; Send down upon our Bishops, and other Clergy, and upon the
Congregations committed to their charge, the healthful Spirit of thy
grace; and, that they may truly please thee, pour upon them the continual
dew of thy blessing. Grant this, O Lord, for the honour of our Advocate
and Mediator, Jesus Christ. Amen.
A Prayer for All Conditions of Men.
O God, the Creator and Preserver of all mankind, we humbly beseech thee
for all sorts and conditions of men; that thou wouldest be pleased to
make thy ways known unto them, thy saving health unto all nations. More
especially we pray for thy holy Church universal; that it may be so
guided and governed by thy good Spirit, that all who profess and call
themselves Christians may be led into the way of truth, and hold the
faith in unity of spirit, in the bond of peace, and in righteousness of
life. Finally, we commend to thy fatherly goodness all those who are any
ways afflicted, or distressed, in mind, body, or estate; [* especially
those for whom our prayers are desired;] that it may please thee to
comfort and relieve them, according to their several necessities; giving
them patience under their sufferings, and a happy issue out of all their
afflictions. And this we beg for Jesus Christ's sake. Amen.
A General Thanksgiving
A Prayer of St. Chrysostom
2 Cor. xiii. 14.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the
fellowship of the Holy Ghost, be with us all evermore. Amen.
Here endeth the Order of Evening Prayer.
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