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DEVOTIONS.

A Morning Prayer for the Aged.

O LORD, Open Thou my lips,

And my mouth shall show forth Thy praise.

Our FATHER, which art in Heaven, Hallowed be Thy Name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, As it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, As we forgive them that trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation; But deliver us from evil. Amen.

Glory be to Thee, O LORD, glory to Thee.
Glory to Thee, Who givest me sleep
to recruit my weakness,

and to remit the toils

of this fretful flesh.

To this day, and all days,

a perfect, holy, peaceful, sinless course,

Vouchsafe, O LORD.

The Angel of peace, a faithful guide,
guardian of souls and bodies,
to encamp around me,
and ever prompt what is salutary,

Vouchsafe, O LORD.

Pardon and remission

of all sin, and of all offences,

Vouchsafe, O Lord,

to our souls what is good and convenient,

and peace to the world,

Vouchsafe, O Lord.

Repentance and strictness

for the residue of our life,

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and health and peace to the end,

Vouchsafe, O LORD.

Whatever is true, whatever is honest,
whatever just, whatever pure,

whatever lovely, whatever of good report,
if there be any virtue, if any praise,
such thoughts, such deeds,

Vouchsafe, O LORD.

A Christian close,

without sin, without shame,

and, should it please Thee, without pain,
and a good answer

at the dreadful and fearful judgment-seat
of JESUS CHRIST our LORD,

Vouchsafe, O Lord.

The Apostles' Creed.

I believe in God the FATHER Almighty, Maker of Heaven and earth :

And in JESUS CHRIST His only SON our LORD, Who was conceived by the HOLY GHOST, Born of the Virgin Mary, Suffered under Pontius Pilate, Was crucified, dead, and buried, He descended into hell; The third day He rose again from the dead, He ascended into Heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the FATHER Almighty; From thence He shall come to judge the quick and the dead.

I believe in the HOLY GHOST; the Holy Catholic Church; The Communion of Saints; The Forgiveness of sins; The Resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.

Blessed art Thou, O LORD, our God,

the God of our fathers;

Who turnest the shadow of death into the morning; and lightenest the face of the earth;

Who lightenest my eyes,

that I sleep not in death;

Who deliverest me from the terror by night,
from the pestilence that walketh in darkness;
Who drivest sleep from mine eyes,
and slumber from mine eyelids;

Who makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to praise Thee;

because I laid me down and slept and rose up again, for the LORD sustained me;

because I waked and beheld,

and my sleep was sweet unto me.

Blot out as a thick cloud my transgressions,
and as a cloud my sins;

Grant me to be a child of light, a child of the day,
vouchsafe to keep me this day without sin,
me and mine, all for whom I am bound
to seek unto Thee.

Moreover deliver us to-day

from the snare of the hunter, and from the noisome pestilence; from the arrow that flieth by day, from the sickness that destroyeth in the noonday. Teach me to do the thing that pleaseth Thee, for Thou art my GOD;

let Thy loving Speech lead me forth
into the land of righteousness.

Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth,
and keep the door of my lips.
Into Thine Hands I commend
my spirit, soul, and body,
and together with me

all men, and all that belongs to me, this Church, and kingdom, this diocese, parish, house, authorities spiritual, civil,

relations, friends, benefactors, enemies,
sick, and afflicted in any manner,
and especially the aged.
Guard us without falling,