With Thee is the well of life, &c. Though he were dead, yet shall he live. Antiphon. Antiphon. Psalm 63. (2) Cast me not away. LAUDS. Have mercy upon me, &c. With Thee, &c. Cast me not away from Thy presence, and take not Thy Holy Spirit from me. Have I not remembered Thee. O God, Thou art my God, &c. With Thee, &c. Have I not remembered Thee in my bed, and thought upon Thee when I was waking. Antiphon. I am like a green olive tree. With Thee, &c. the house of God; my I am like a green olive tree in Antiphon. Song of Ezekias (4) The living, the living, he shall praise Thee. I said, in the cutting off of my days I shall go to the gates Is. xxxviii. 10-20. of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years, &c. I said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world. Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me. I reckoned till morning, that as a lion so will he break all my bones from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me. Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove; mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me. What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul. O LORD, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit; so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live. Antiphon. Antiphon. Ps. 148, 149, & 150. (5) Antiphon. (v) Verse and Response. (w) Antiphon. Benedictus. Antiphon. The Lord's Prayer (privately.) Psalm 126. Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back. For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth. The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day the father to the children shall make known thy truth. The LORD was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life, in the house of the LORD. With Thee, &c. The living, the living, he shall praise Thee, as I do this day. Let every thing that hath breath. O praise the Lord of heaven. With Thee, &c. Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. I heard a voice from heaven, saying unto me, I am the Resurrection and the life. I am the Resurrection and the life; he that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live, and whosoever liveth and believeth in Me, shall never die. Our Father, &c. When the Lord turned again, &c. The Service terminates with the Collects and Sentences used at Vespers, p. 147, 148. With Thee is the well, &c. May their souls rest in peace. Amen. § 8. SERVICE FOR THE SUNDAYS IN ADVENT. [Sections 2 and 3 form the respective bases to this and the following section, the letters and numbers marking the substitutions: the Hymns at Matins, Lauds, and Vespers are the only portion of the Services not given. Christmas Day is here supposed to fall on a Sunday. The Service for St. Thomas's necessarily affects the Lauds and dependent Hours on the 21st: with this exception no notice is taken of Festivals, which materially alter the Advent Services as actually performed in the Latin Church. It is instructive to compare the Sunday Services as they here stand, with ours, which are formed from them.] (a) Invitatory. (b) Hymn. (c) Antiphon. (d) Antiphon. (e) Antiphon. Sundays 1 & 2. O come, let us worship: the Lord our King is coming. Sundays 3 & 4. O come, let us worship: the Lord is now at hand. Verbum supernum prodiens, &c. NOCTURN I. Behold, the mighty King: shall come with great power to save the nations. Hallelujah. Strengthen ye: the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees; say to them of fearful heart, Behold your God will come and save you. Hallelujah. Be strong fear not, behold your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompense: He will come and save you. (f) Verse and Response. Out of Sion hath God appeared Lesson 1. Isa. i. 1-3. Response 1. Lesson 2. Isa. i. 4-6. SUNDAY I. The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the Lord hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. NIVI I look afar off, and behold, I see the power of God coming, and a cloud covering the whole earth: Go ye forth to meet Him, and say: Tell us, whether Thou be He who shall rule over the people Israel. All ye children of the earth and sons of men, the rich and the poor together. Go ye forth to meet Him, and say: Tell us, whether Thou be He who shall rule over the people Israel. Hear, O Thou Shepherd of Israel, Thou that leadest Joseph like a sheep. Tell us, whether Thou be He: who shall rule over the people Israel. Lift up your heads, O ye gates, and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of glory shall come in. Who shall rule over the people Israel. Glory be to the Father, &c. I look afar off, and behold, I see the power of Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evil doers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward. Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment. Response 2. Lesson 3. Isa. i. 7-9. Response 3. Lesson 1. Isa. xi. 1-4. I saw in the night visions, and behold, One like unto the Son of man come with the clouds of heaven, and there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom: that all people, nations, and languages should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and His kingdom that which shall not be destroyed. That all people, nations, &c. Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers. And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city. Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah. The angel Gabriel was sent to Mary, a virgin espoused to Joseph, announcing to her the Word, and the virgin was troubled at the light: Fear not, Mary, thou hast found favour with the Lord, and behold, thou shalt conceive and bring forth a son, and He shall be called the Son of the Highest. The Lord God shall give unto Him the Throne of His Father David, and He shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever. Behold, thou shalt conceive, &c. Glory be to the Father, &c. Behold, thou shalt conceive, &c. SUNDAY 2. And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD; And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears: But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. |