Friday after Second Sunday in Advent
EVENING
Lord's Prayer and Preces
Our Father, whichwho art in heaven, Hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done inon earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them thatthose 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.
O Lord, open thou our lips.
And our mouth shall show forth thy praise.
O God, make speed to save us.
O Lord, make haste to help us.
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.
Praise ye the Lord.
The Lord's Name be praised.
Ps. 65.
| Thou, O God, art praised in Sion; and unto thee shall the vow be performed in Jerusalem. |
| Thou that hearest the prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come. |
| My misdeeds prevail against me: O be thou merciful unto our sins. |
| Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and receivest unto thee: he shall dwell in thy court, and shall be satisfied with the pleasures of thy house, even of thy holy temple. |
| Thou shalt shew us wonderful things in thy righteousness, O God of our salvation; thou that art the hope of all the ends of the earth, and of them that remain in the broad sea. |
| Who in his strength setteth fast the mountains, and is girded about with power. |
| Who stilleth the raging of the sea, and the noise of his waves, and the madness of the people. |
| They also that dwell in the uttermost parts of the earth shall be afraid at thy tokens, thou that makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to praise thee. |
| Thou visitest the earth, and blessest it; thou makest it very plenteous. |
| The river of God is full of water: thou preparest their corn, for so thou providest for the earth. |
| Thou waterest her furrows, thou sendest rain into the little valleys thereof; thou makest it soft with the drops of rain, and blessest the increase of it. |
| Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy clouds drop fatness. |
| They shall drop upon the dwellings of the wilderness; and the little hills shall rejoice on every side. |
| The folds shall be full of sheep; the valleys also shall stand so thick with corn, that they shall laugh and sing. |
| 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. |
Ps. 66.
| O be joyful in God, all ye lands; sing praises unto the honour of his Name, make his praise to be glorious. |
| Say unto God, O how wonderful art thou in thy works! through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies be found liars unto thee. |
| For all the world shall worship thee, sing of thee, and praise thy Name. |
| O come hither, and behold the works of God; how wonderful he is in his doing toward the children of men. |
| He turned the sea into dry land, so that they went through the water on foot; there did we rejoice thereof. |
| He ruleth with his power for ever; his eyes behold the people: and such as will not believe shall not be able to exalt themselves. |
| O praise our God, ye people, and make the voice of his praise to be heard; |
| Who holdeth our soul in life; and suffereth not our feet to slip. |
| For thou, O God, hast proved us; thou also hast tried us, like as silver is tried. |
| Thou broughtest us into the snare; and laidest trouble upon our loins. |
| Thou sufferedst men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and water, and thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place. |
| I will go into thine house with burnt offerings: and will pay thee my vows, which I promised with my lips, and spake with my mouth, when I was in trouble. |
| I will offer unto thee fat burnt sacrifices, with the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks and goats. |
| O come hither, and hearken, all ye that fear God; and I will tell you what he hath done for my soul. |
| I called unto him with my mouth, and gave him praises with my tongue. |
| If I incline unto wickedness with mine heart, the Lord will not hear me. |
| But God hath heard me; and considered the voice of my prayer. |
| Praised be God, who hath not cast out my prayer, nor turned his mercy from me. |
| 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. |
Ps. 67.
| God be merciful unto us, and bless us; and shew us the light of his countenance, and be merciful unto us: |
| That thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among all nations. |
| Let the people praise thee, O God; yea, let all the people praise thee. |
| O let the nations rejoice and be glad; for thou shalt judge the folk righteously, and govern the nations upon earth. |
| Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee. |
| Then shall the earth bring forth her increase; and God, even our own God, shall give us his blessing. |
| God shall bless us; and all the ends of the world shall fear him. |
| 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. |
First Lesson✤
| In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live. |
| Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the Lord, |
| And said, Remember now, O Lord, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore. |
| Then came the word of the Lord to Isaiah, saying, |
| Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the Lord, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years. |
| And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend this city. |
| And this shall be a sign unto thee from the Lord, that the Lord will do this thing that he hath spoken; |
| Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down. |
| The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness: |
| I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover. |
| Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the Lord? |
MAGNIFICATFirst Canticle
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.
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.
Second Lesson✤
| Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. |
| Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. |
| Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. |
| Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth. |
| Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. |
| Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you. |
| Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. |
| Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh. |
| Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door. |
| Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience. |
| Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy. |
| But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation. |
| Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms. |
| Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: |
| And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. |
| Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. |
| Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. |
| And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit. |
| Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him; |
| Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins. |
NUNC DIMITTISSecond Canticle
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.
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.
Collect of the Day
Blessed Lord, who hast caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning; Grant that we may in such wise hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them; that by patience, and comfort of thy holy Word, we may embrace, and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life, which thou hast given us in our Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen.
Collect of 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.
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 both 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.
Collect for Aid Against All 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.
