THE ORDER HOW THE PSALTER IS APPOINTED TO BE READ. THE Psalter shall be read through once every month, as it is there appointed, both for Morning and Evening Prayer. But in February, it shall be read only to the twentyeighth or twenty-ninth day of the month. And whereas, January, March, May, July August, October, an! December, have one-and-thirty days apiece; it is ordered, that the same Psalms shall be rea! the last day of the said months which were read the day before; so that th: Psalter may legin again the first day of the next month ensuing. And whereas the 119th Psalm is divided into twenty-two Portions, and is over lorg to be read at one time; it is so ordered, that at one time shall not be read above four of five of the said Portions. The Minister, instead of reading from the Psalter as divided for Daily Morning and Evening Prayer, may read one of the Selections set out by this Church. And, on Days of Fasting and Thanksgiving, appointed either by the Civil or by the Ecclesiastical Authority, the Minister may appoint such Psalms as he shall think ft in his discretion, unless any shall have been appointed by the Ecclesiastical Authority, in a Service set out for the Occasion; which, in that case, shall be used, and no other. PROPER PSALMS ON CERTAIN DAYS. Morning. Evening. Christmas-Day, 19, 45, 85 89, 110, 132 Easter-Day, Ash-Wednesday, 6, 32, 38102, 130, 143 Ascension-Day, Good-Friday, 22, 40, 54 64,88 Whit-Sunday, The Minister may use one of the Selections, instead of any one of the above Portious. THE ORDER HOW THE REST OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURE IS APPOINTED TO BE READ. HE Old Testament is appointed for the First Lessons at Morning and Evening Prayer; part as appointed. year The New Testament is appointed for the Second Lessons at Morning and Evening Prayer And to know what Lessons shall be read every day, look for the day of the month in the Calen lar following, and there ye shall find the Chapters that shall be read for the Lessons, both at Morning and Evening Prayer; except only the Moveab. Fear's, which are not in the Calendar; and the Immoveable where there is a blank left in the column of Lessons; the Proper Lessons for all which days are to be found in the Table of Proper Lessons. And, on days of Fasting and Thanksgiving, the same rule is to obtain as in reading the Psalms. And the same discretion of choice is allowed on occasions of Ecclesiastical Conventions, and those of Charitable Collections. And Note, That whensoever Proper Psalms or Lessons are appointed, then the Psalins and Lessons of ordinary course appointed in the Psalter and Calendar, if they be different, shall be omitted for that time. Note also. That the Collect, Epistle, and Gospel, appointed for the Sunday, shall serve all the Week after, where it is not in this Book otherwise ordered. *The Numbers prefixed to the several (in foregoing Days, the Calendar,) between the 21st Day of March and the 18th Day of April, both inclusive, denote the Days upon which those Full Moons do fall, which happen upon or next after the 21st Day of March, in those years, of which they are respectively the Golden Numbers; and the Sunday Letter next following any such Full Moon points out Easter-Day for that year. All which holds until the Year of our Lord 1899 inclusive; after which Year, the Place of these Golden Numbers will be te be changed, as is hereafter expressed. |