Tuesday after First 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. 12.
| Help me, Lord, for there is not one godly man left; for the faithful are minished from among the children of men. |
| They talk of vanity every one with his neighbour; they do but flatter with their lips, and dissemble in their double heart. |
| The Lord shall root out all deceitful lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things; |
| Which have said, With our tongue will we prevail; we are they that ought to speak, who is lord over us? |
| Now for the comfortless trouble's sake of the needy, and because of the deep sighing of the poor, |
| I will up, saith the Lord; and will help every one from him that swelleth against him, and will set him at rest. |
| The words of the Lord are pure words; even as the silver, which from the earth is tried, and purified seven times in the fire. |
| Thou shalt keep them, O Lord; thou shalt preserve him from this generation for ever. |
| The ungodly walk on every side: when they are exalted, the children of men are put to rebuke. |
| 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. 13.
| How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord, for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me? |
| How long shall I seek counsel in my soul, and be so vexed in my heart? how long shall mine enemies triumph over me? |
| Consider, and hear me, O Lord my God; lighten mine eyes, that I sleep not in death. |
| Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him: for if I be cast down, they that trouble me will rejoice at it. |
| But my trust is in thy mercy, and my heart is joyful in thy salvation. |
| I will sing of the Lord, because he hath dealt so lovingly with me; yea, I will praise the Name of the Lord most Highest. |
| 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. 14.
| The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. |
| They are corrupt, and become abominable in their doings; there is none that doeth good, no not one. |
| The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that would understand, and seek after God. |
| But they are all gone out of the way, they are altogether become abominable; there is none that doeth good, no not one. |
| Their throat is an open sepulchre, with their tongues have they deceived; the poison of asps is under their lips. |
| Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; their feet are swift to shed blood. |
| Destruction and unhappiness is in their ways, and the way of peace have they not known; there is no fear of God before their eyes. |
| Have they no knowledge, that they are all such workers of mischief, eating up my people as it were bread, and call not upon the Lord? |
| There were they brought in great fear, even where no fear was; for God is in the generation of the righteous. |
| As for you, ye have made a mock at the counsel of the poor, because he putteth his trust in the Lord. |
| Who shall give salvation unto Israel out of Sion? When the Lord turneth the captivity of his people, then shall Jacob rejoice, and Israel shall be glad. |
| 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✤
| The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap. |
| The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid. |
| The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the Lord of hosts. |
| And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean. |
| And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim. |
| Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the Lord God of Israel. |
| At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel. |
| And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images. |
| In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation. |
| Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips: |
| In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow. |
| Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters! |
| The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind. |
| And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us. |
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✤
| Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens; |
| A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man. |
| For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer. |
| For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law: |
| Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount. |
| But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises. |
| For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. |
| For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: |
| Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. |
| For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: |
| And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. |
| For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. |
| In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away. |
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
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.
