Saturday after Second Sunday after Epiphany
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. 119:1-8.
| Blessed are those that are undefiled in the way, and walk in the law of the Lord. |
| Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and seek him with their whole heart. |
| For they who do no wickedness walk in his ways. |
| Thou hast charged that we shall diligently keep thy commandments. |
| O that my ways were made so direct, that I might keep thy statutes! |
| So shall I not be confounded, while I have respect unto all thy commandments. |
| I will thank thee with an unfeigned heart, when I shall have learned the judgements of thy righteousness. |
| I will keep thy ceremonies; O forsake me not utterly. |
| 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. 119:9-16.
| Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? even by ruling himself after thy word. |
| With my whole heart have I sought thee; O let me not go wrong out of thy commandments. |
| Thy words have I hid within my heart, that I should not sin against thee. |
| Blessed art thou, O Lord; O teach me thy statutes. |
| With my lips have I been telling of all the judgements of thy mouth. |
| I have had as great delight in the way of thy testimonies, as in all manner of riches. |
| I will talk of thy commandments, and have respect unto thy ways. |
| My delight shall be in thy statutes, and I will not forget thy word. |
| 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. 119:17-24.
| O do well unto thy servant; that I may live, and keep thy word. |
| Open thou mine eyes; that I may see the wondrous things of thy law. |
| I am a stranger upon earth; O hide not thy commandments from me. |
| My soul breaketh out for the very fervent desire that it hath alway unto thy judgements. |
| Thou hast rebuked the proud; and cursed are they that do err from thy commandments. |
| O turn from me shame and rebuke; for I have kept thy testimonies. |
| Princes also did sit and speak against me; but thy servant is occupied in thy statutes. |
| For thy testimonies are my delight, and my counsellors. |
| 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. 119:25-32.
| My soul cleaveth to the dust; O quicken thou me, according to thy word. |
| I have acknowledged my ways, and thou heardest me: O teach me thy statutes. |
| Make me to understand the way of thy commandments; and so shall I talk of thy wondrous works. |
| My soul melteth away for very heaviness; comfort thou me according unto thy word. |
| Take from me the way of lying, and cause thou me to make much of thy law. |
| I have chosen the way of truth, and thy judgements have I laid before me. |
| I have stuck unto thy testimonies; O Lord, confound me not. |
| I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou hast set my heart at liberty. |
| 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✤
| Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they are in the land of Goshen. |
| And he took some of his brethren, even five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh. |
| And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What is your occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we, and also our fathers. |
| They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come; for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen. |
| And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee: |
| The land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest any men of activity among them, then make them rulers over my cattle. |
| And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. |
| And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou? |
| And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage. |
| And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh. |
| And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded. |
| And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to their families. |
| And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine. |
| And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house. |
| And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in thy presence? for the money faileth. |
| And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if money fail. |
| And they brought their cattle unto Joseph: and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for horses, and for the flocks, and for the cattle of the herds, and for the asses: and he fed them with bread for all their cattle for that year. |
| When that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will not hide it from my lord, how that our money is spent; my lord also hath our herds of cattle; there is not ought left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands: |
| Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate. |
| And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh's. |
| And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof. |
| Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests had a portion assigned them of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their lands. |
| Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land. |
| And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give the fifth part unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little ones. |
| And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants. |
| And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth part; except the land of the priests only, which became not Pharaoh's. |
| And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly. |
| And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years. |
| And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt: |
| But I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace. And he said, I will do as thou hast said. |
| And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed's head. |
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✤
| Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints? |
| Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? |
| Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life? |
| If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church. |
| I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren? |
| But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers. |
| Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded? |
| Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren. |
| Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, |
| Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. |
| And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. |
| All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. |
| Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body. |
| And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power. |
| Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid. |
| What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh. |
| But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. |
| Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. |
| What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? |
| For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. |
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
O God, who through the preaching of the blessed Apostle Saint Paul, hast caused the light of the Gospel to shine throughout the world; Grant, we beseech thee, that we, having his wonderful conversion in remembrance, may show forth our thankfulness unto thee for the same, by following the holy doctrine which he taught, through Jesus Christ our Lord. 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.
