Monday after Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity
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. 136.
| O give thanks unto the Lord, for he is gracious: and his mercy endureth for ever. |
| O give thanks unto the God of all gods: for his mercy endureth for ever. |
| O thank the Lord of all lords: for his mercy endureth for ever. |
| Who only doeth great wonders: for his mercy endureth for ever. |
| Who by his excellent wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy endureth for ever. |
| Who laid out the earth above the waters: for his mercy endureth for ever. |
| Who hath made great lights: for his mercy endureth for ever; |
| The sun to rule the day: for his mercy endureth for ever; |
| The moon and the stars to govern the night: for his mercy endureth for ever. |
| Who smote Egypt with their firstborn: for his mercy endureth for ever; |
| And brought out Israel from among them: for his mercy endureth for ever; |
| With a mighty hand, and stretched out arm: for his mercy endureth for ever. |
| Who divided the Red sea in two parts: for his mercy endureth for ever; |
| And made Israel to go through the midst of it: for his mercy endureth for ever. |
| But as for Pharaoh and his host, he overthrew them in the Red sea: for his mercy endureth for ever. |
| Who led his people through the wilderness: for his mercy endureth for ever. |
| Who smote great kings: for his mercy endureth for ever; |
| Yea, and slew mighty kings: for his mercy endureth for ever; |
| Sehon king of the Amorites: for his mercy endureth for ever; |
| And Og the king of Basan: for his mercy endureth for ever; |
| And gave away their land for an heritage: for his mercy endureth for ever; |
| Even for an heritage unto Israel his servant: for his mercy endureth for ever. |
| Who remembered us when we were in trouble: for his mercy endureth for ever; |
| And hath delivered us from our enemies: for his mercy endureth for ever. |
| Who giveth food to all flesh: for his mercy endureth for ever. |
| O give thanks unto the God of heaven: for his mercy endureth for ever. |
| O give thanks unto the Lord of lords: for his mercy endureth 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. |
Ps. 137.
| By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, when we remembered thee, O Sion. |
| As for our harps, we hanged them up upon the trees that are therein. |
| For they that led us away captive required of us then a song, and melody in our heaviness: Sing us one of the songs of Sion. |
| How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land? |
| If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. |
| If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; yea, if I prefer not Jerusalem in my mirth. |
| Remember the children of Edom, O Lord, in the day of Jerusalem; how they said, Down with it, down with it, even to the ground. |
| O daughter of Babylon, wasted with misery; yea, happy shall he be that rewardeth thee, as thou hast served us. |
| Blessed shall he be that taketh thy children, and throweth them against the stones. |
| 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. 138.
| I will give thanks unto thee, O Lord, with my whole heart; even before the gods will I sing praise unto thee. |
| I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy Name, because of thy lovingkindness and truth; for thou hast magnified thy Name and thy word above all things. |
| When I called upon thee, thou heardest me; and enduedst my soul with much strength. |
| All the kings of the earth shall praise thee, O Lord; for they have heard the words of thy mouth. |
| Yea, they shall sing in the ways of the Lord, that great is the glory of the Lord. |
| For though the Lord be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly; as for the proud, he beholdeth them afar off. |
| Though I walk in the midst of trouble, yet shalt thou refresh me; thou shalt stretch forth thy hand upon the furiousness of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall save me. |
| The Lord shall make good his lovingkindness toward me; yea, thy mercy, O Lord, endureth for ever; despise not then the works of thine own hands. |
| 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 I being grieved did weep, and in my sorrow prayed, saying, |
| O Lord, thou art just, and all thy works and all thy ways are mercy and truth, and thou judgest truly and justly for ever. |
| Remember me, and look on me, punish me not for my sins and ignorances, and the sins of my fathers, who have sinned before thee: |
| For they obeyed not thy commandments: wherefore thou hast delivered us for a spoil, and unto captivity, and unto death, and for a proverb of reproach to all the nations among whom we are dispersed. |
| And now thy judgments are many and true: deal with me according to my sins and my fathers': because we have not kept thy commandments, neither have walked in truth before thee. |
| Now therefore deal with me as seemeth best unto thee, and command my spirit to be taken from me, that I may be dissolved, and become earth: for it is profitable for me to die rather than to live, because I have heard false reproaches, and have much sorrow: command therefore that I may now be delivered out of this distress, and go into the everlasting place: turn not thy face away from me. |
| It came to pass the same day, that in Ecbatane a city of Media Sara the daughter of Raguel was also reproached by her father's maids; |
| Because that she had been married to seven husbands, whom Asmodeus the evil spirit had killed, before they had lain with her. Dost thou not know, said they, that thou hast strangled thine husbands? thou hast had already seven husbands, neither wast thou named after any of them. |
| Wherefore dost thou beat us for them? if they be dead, go thy ways after them, let us never see of thee either son or daughter. |
| When she heard these things, she was very sorrowful, so that she thought to have strangled herself; and she said, I am the only daughter of my father, and if I do this, it shall be a reproach unto him, and I shall bring his old age with sorrow unto the grave. |
| Then she prayed toward the window, and said, Blessed art thou, O Lord my God, and thine holy and glorious name is blessed and honourable for ever: let all thy works praise thee for ever. |
| And now, O Lord, I set mine eyes and my face toward thee, |
| And say, Take me out of the earth, that I may hear no more the reproach. |
| Thou knowest, Lord, that I am pure from all sin with man, |
| And that I never polluted my name, nor the name of my father, in the land of my captivity: I am the only daughter of my father, neither hath he any child to be his heir, neither any near kinsman, nor any son of his alive, to whom I may keep myself for a wife: my seven husbands are already dead; and why should I live? but if it please not thee that I should die, command some regard to be had of me, and pity taken of me, that I hear no more reproach. |
| So the prayers of them both were heard before the majesty of the great God. |
| And Raphael was sent to heal them both, that is, to scale away the whiteness of Tobit's eyes, and to give Sara the daughter of Raguel for a wife to Tobias the son of Tobit; and to bind Asmodeus the evil spirit; because she belonged to Tobias by right of inheritance. The selfsame time came Tobit home, and entered into his house, and Sara the daughter of Raguel came down from her upper chamber. |
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✤
| Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. |
| And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. |
| And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. |
| Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, |
| Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; |
| Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; |
| Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. |
| Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. |
| For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. |
| But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. |
| When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. |
| For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. |
| And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. |
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
Lord, we pray thee, that thy grace may always prevent and follow us; and make us continually to be given to all good works, 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.
