ther, save the Son, and he to The Annunciation of the blessed WE The Collect. E beseech thee, O Lord, pour thy grace into our hearts; that as we 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 Epistle. Isa. vii. 10. with thee; blessed art thou among women. And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what man ner of salutation this should be And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary; for thou hast found favour with God. And behold, thou shalt conceive in thy 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 nian? And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee; therefore also MOREOVER, the Lord spake that holy thing which shall be again unto Ahaz, saying, born of thee, shall be called the Ask thee a sign of the Lord thy Son of God. And behold, thy God; ask it either in the depth, or cousin Elisabeth, she hath also in the height above. But Ahaz conceived a son in her old age; said, I will not ask, neither will and this is the sixth month with I tempt the Lord. And he said, her who was called barren. For Hear ye now, O house of David; with God nothing shall be imposIs it a small thing for you to wea-sible. And Mary said, Behold ry men, but will ye weary my the handmaid of the Lord; be it God also? Therefore the Lord unto me according to thy word. himself shall give you a sign: Be- And the angel departed from her. hold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good. The Gospel. St. Luke i. 26. AND in the sixth month, the Angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, to a Virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the Virgin's name was Mary. And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that Saint Mark's Day. The Collect. ALMIGHTY God, who hast instructed thy holy Church with the heavenly doctrine of thy Evangelist Saint Mark; give us grace, that being not like chil- The Epistle. Ephes. iv. 7. art highly favoured, the Lord is sure of the gift of Christ Where fore he saith, When he ascended much fruit: for without me ye up on high, he led captivity cap-can do nothing. If a man abide tive, and gave gifts unto men. not in me, he is cast forth as a (Now that he ascended, what branch, and is withered; and it but that he also descended first men gather them, and cast them into the lower parts of the earth? into the fire, and they are burned. He that descended is the same If ye abide in me, and my words also that ascended up far above abide in you, ye shall ask what all heavens, that he might fill all ye will, and it shall be done unto things.) And he gave some you. Herein is my Father gloriapostles, and some prophets, and fied, that ye bear much fruit; so some evangelists, and some pas- shall ye be my disciples. As the tors and teachers; for the per- Father hath loved me, so have I fecting of the saints, for the work loved you: continue ye in my of the ministry, for the edifying love. If ye keep my commandof the body of Christ; till we all ments, ye shall abide in my love; come in the unity of the faith, even as I have kept my Father's and of the knowledge of the Son commandments, and abide in his of God, unto a perfect man, unto love. These things have I spoken the measure of the stature of the unto you, that my joy might refulness of Christ: that we hence- main in you, and that your joy forth be no more children, tossed might be full. 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 by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body, unto the edifying of itself ir love. The Gospel. St. John xv 1. Saint Philip and Saint James's Day. ALMIGHTY God, whom truly to know is everlasting life; grant us perfectly to know thy Son Jesus Christ to be the way, the truth, and the life; that following the steps of thy holy Apostles, Saint Philip and Saint James, we may steadfastly walk in the way that leadeth to eternal life, through the same thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. of Lord The Epistle. St. James i. 1. JAMES, a servant of God, and the twelve tribes Jesus Christ, to tered abroad, greeting. My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; know I AM the true vine, and my Fary branch in me that beareth not fruit, he taketh away; and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth ing this, that the trying of your more fruit. Now ye are clean faith worketh patience. But let through the word which I have patience have her perfect work, spoken unto you. Abide in me, that ye may be perfect and entire, and I in you. As the branch wanting nothing. If any of you cannot bear fruit of itself, except lack wisdom, let him ask of God, it abide in the vine; no more that giveth to all men liberally, can ye, except ye abide in me. I and upbraideth not; and it shall am the vine, ye are the branches. be given him. But let him ask He that abideth in me, and I in in faith, nothing wavering: for him, the same bringeth forth he that wavereth is like a wave c the sea, driven with the wind, | thou not that I am in the Father, and tossed. For let not that man and the Father in me? The words think that he shall receive any that I speak unto you, I speak thing of the Lord. A double- not of myself; but the Father minded man is unstable in all his that dwelleth in me, he doeth ways. Let the brother of low the works. Believe me, that I degree rejoice in that he is ex- am in the Father, and the Father alted, but the rich in that he is in me; or else believe me for the made low; because as the flower very works' sake. Verily, verily, of the grass he shall pass away. I say unto you, He that believeth For the sun is no sooner risen on me, the works that I do shall with a burning heat, but it with- he do also; and greater works éreth the grass, and the flower than these shall he do; because thereof falleth, and the grace of I go unto my Father. And whatthe fashion of it perisheth: so soever ye shall ask in my name, also shall the rich man fade away that will I do, that the Father in his ways. Blessed is the man may be glorified in the Son. If that endureth temptation; for ye shall ask any thing in my when he is tried, he shall receive name, I will do it. the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him. The Gospel. St. John xiv. 1. Saint Barnabas the Apostle. The Collect. LORD God Almighty, who didst endue thy holy Apostle A ples, Let not your heart be Barnabas with singular gifts of the Holy Ghost; leave us not, For the Epistle. Acts xi. 22. troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. unto the ears of the Church And whither I go, ye know, and which was in Jerusalem: and the way ye know. Thomas saith they sent forth Barnabas, that he unto him, Lord, we know not should go as far as Antioch: who, whither thou goest, and how can when he came, and had seen th we know the way? Jesus saith grace of God, was glad; and exunto him, I am the way, the truth, horted them all, that with purand the life; no man cometh un-pose of heart they would cleave to the Father but by me. If ye unto the Lord. For he was a had known me, ye should have good man, and full of the Holy known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him. Philip saith unto him, Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? He that hath seen me, hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, ow us the Father? Believest Ghost, and of faith: and much people was added unto the Lord. Then departed Barnabas to Tarsus for to seek Saul: And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came 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 For the Epistle. Isa. xl. 1. Jerusalem unto Antioch. And COMFORT ye, comfort ye my there stood up one of them, nam- people, saith your God. Speak ed Agabus, and signified by the ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and Spirit, that there should be great cry unto her, that her warfare is dearth throughout all the world: accomplished, that her iniquity is which came to pass in the days pardoned: for she hath received of Claudius Cæsar. Then the dis-of the Lord's hand double for all ciples, every man according to hersins. The voice of him that crihis ability, determined to send eth in the wilderness, Prepare ye relief unto the brethren which the way of the Lord, make straight dwelt in Judea. Which also they in the desert a high way for our did, and sent it to the elders by God. Every valley shall be exaltthe hands of Barnabas and Saul.ed, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked The Gospel. St. John xv. 12. shall be made straight, and the TH HIS is my commandment, rough places plain. And the gloThat ye love one another, as ry of the Lord shall be revealed, I have loved you. Greater love and all flesh shall see it together; hath no man than this, that a man for the mouth of the Lord hath lay down his life for his friends. spoken it. The voice said, Cry. Ye are my friends, if ye do what- And he said, What shall I cry? soever I command you. Hence- All flesh is grass, and all the goodforth I call you not servants; for liness thereof is as the flower of the servant knoweth not what his the field. The grass withereth, lord doeth: but I have called you the flower fadeth, because the friends; for all things that I have Spirit of the Lord bloweth upon heard of my Father, I have made it: surely the people is grass. The known unto you. Ye have not grass withereth, the flower fadeth; chosen me, but I have chosen but the word of our God shall stand you, and ordained you, that ye for ever. O Zion, that bringest should go and bring forth fruit, good tidings, get thee up into the and that your fruit should re-high mountain: O Jerusalem, that main: that whatsoever ye shall bringest good tidings, lift up thy ask of the Father in my name, he voice with strength; lift it up, be may give it you. 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 Saint John Baptist's Day. A servant Baptist was wonderfully born, a shepherd; he shall gather the and sent to prepare the way of lambs with his arm, and carry thy Son our Saviour, by preach-them in his bosom, and shall genting repentance; make us so to ly lead those that are with young. follow his doctrine and holy life, that we may truly repent accord ing to his preaching; and after his example constantly speak the truth, boldly rebuke vice, and patiently suffer for the truth's sake, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Auten. The Gospel. St. Luke i. 57. that she should be delivered; and she brought forth a son. And her neighbours and her cousins heard how the Lord had showed great mercy upon her; and they rejoiced with her. And it came to LISABETH's full time came the Day-spring from on high hath visited us, to give light to them that sit in darkness, and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace. And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit; and was in the deserts till the day of his showing unto Israel. Saint Peter's Day. For the Epistle. Acts xii. 1. pass, that on the eighth day they |sion of their sins, through the tencame to circumcise the child; and der mercy of our God; whereby they called him Zacharias, after the name of his father. And his mother answered and said, Not so; but he shall be called John. And they said unto her, There is none of thy kindred that is called by this name. And they made signs to his father, how he would have him called. And he asked for a writing table, and wrote, saying, His name is John. And they marThe Collect. velled all. And his mouth was ALMIGHTY God, who, by opened immediately, and his thy Son Jesus Christ, didst tongue loosed, and he spake, and give to thy Apostle Saint Peter praised God. And fear came on many excellent gifts, and comall that dwelt round about them: mandedst him earnestly to feed and all these sayings were noised thy flock; make, we beseech thee, abroad throughout all the hill all Bishops and Pastors diligentcountry of Judea. And all they ly to preach thy holy Word, and that had heard them, laid them the people obediently to follow up in their hearts, saying, What the same, that they may receive manner of child shall this be? the crown of everlasting glory, And the hand of the Lord was through Jesus Christ our Lord. with him. And his father Zach- Amen. arias was filled with the Holy Ghost, and prophesied, saying, Blessed be the Lord God of Isra- king stretched forth his hands el; for he hath visited and re- to vex certain of the Church. And deemed his people, and hath rais- he killed James the brother of ed up an horn of salvation for us, John with the sword. And bein the house of his servant David; cause he saw it pleased the Jews, as he spake by the mouth of his he proceeded further to take Peholy prophets, which have been ter also. (Then were the days of since the world began; that we unleavened bread.) And when should be saved from our ene- he had apprehended him, he put mies, and from the hand of all that him in prison, and delivered him hate us: To perform the mercy to four quaternions of soldiers, to promised to our fathers, and to keep him; intending after Easremember his holy covenant: the ter to bring him forth to the peooath which he sware to our fa-ple. Peter therefore was kept ther Abraham, that he would in prison; but prayer was made grant unto us, that we,being de- without ceasing of the Church unlivered out of the hands of our to God for him. And when Herod enemies, might serve him with- would have brought him forth, out fear, in holiness and righte- the same night Peter was sleepousness before him, all the days ing between two soldiers, bound of our life. And thou, child, shalt with two chains; and the keepers be called the prophet of the High- before the door kept the prison. est: for thou shalt go before the And behold, the angel of the Lord face of the Lord, to prepare his came upon him, and a light shined ways; to give knowledge of salva- in the prison: and he smote Peter tion unto his people by the remis- on the side, and raised him up, |