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At the end:

Verse. All they from Saba shall come. Alleluia

Answer. They shall bring gold and incense. Alleluia.

Ps. lxxi. Give the King, &c., (p. 55.)

3. At supper on Maundy Thursday, nothing is said except the following:

At the beginning (without any "Bless ye, &c.")

Christ, for our sakes, became obedient unto death.

Then the Lord's Prayer is said inaudibly throughout, and afterwards the sign of the Cross is made silently.

If there be reading, nothing is said by the Reader before or after, and no blessing, &c.

At the end:

Christ for our sakes, &c.

Then Ps. 1., (p. 96,) without "Glory, &c."

Then the Lord's Prayer is said inaudibly throughout.

Then the Prayer, "Lord, we beseech Thee, &c.," (p. 440,) the last clause, "Who liveth, &c.," being said inaudibly.

Then the Lord's Prayer again inaudibly throughout.

4. At supper on Good Friday, the same, except that the words, "even the death of the Cross" are added to the "Christ, for our sakes, &c."

5. Supper on Holy Saturday is as usual, with the following:

Text at the beginning. (Matth.
xxviii. 1.)

But in the end of the Sabbath, As it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, Alleluia-Came Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, to see the sepulchre. Alleluia.

1 Isa. Ix. 6.

At the end the same is repeated as V. and R.

6. From dinner on Easter Day to dinner on the next Saturday, both inclusive.

Text at the beginning. (Ps. cxvii. 24.)

This is the day which the LORD hath made, Alleluia

Let us rejoice and be glad in it. Alleluia.

At the end, the same is repeated as V. and R.

Ps. cxvii. O give thanks, &c., (p. 115.)

7. From supper on Rogation Wednesday to supper on Friday before Whitsun Day, both inclusive.

Text at the beginning. (Ps. xlvi. 6.) God is gone up with a shout, Alleluia

And the LORD with the sound of a trumpet. Alleluia.

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Prayers for a Journey.

These Prayers are said immediately after starting. If one person say them by himself, the Singular Number is used.

Antiphon. May the Lord, the Almighty and Merciful, lead us

Song of Zacharias. Blessed be the Lord, &c., (p. 91.)

Antiphon. May the Lord, the Almighty and Merciful, lead us into the way of peace and prosperity, and may the angel Raphael be with us in the way, that we may come to our home again in peace, and health, and glad

ness.

Kyrie eleison. Christe eleison. Kyrie eleison.

Our Father (inaudibly till the last words)

And lead us not into temptation. Answer. But deliver us from evil. Verse. 10 Thou my God, save Thy servants,

Answer. That trust in Thee. Verse. 20 Lord, send us help from the sanctuary.

Answer. And strengthen us out of Zion.

Verse. Lord, be Thou unto us a strong tower,

Answer. From the enemy.

Verse. Let the enemy prevail nothing against us,

Answer. Nor the son of wickedness afflict us.

Verse. "Blessed be the Lord daily. Answer. The God of our salvation maketh our way prosperous.

Verse. Show us Thy ways, O LORD. Answer. And teach us Thy paths. Verse. O that our ways were directed,

Answer. To keep Thy statutes. Verse. The crooked shall be made straight.

Answer. And the rough places plain. Verse. God hath given His Angels charge over thee.

Answer. To keep thee in all thy

ways.

Verse. Hear my prayer, O LORD.

1 Ps. lxxxv. 2. Ps. lxxxviii. 23.

7 Ps. cxviii. 5.

Answer. And let my cry come unto Thee.

Let us pray.

GOD, Who madest the children of Israel to walk with dry feet through the midst of the sea, and Who didst open unto the three wise men, by the guiding of a star, the way that led unto Thee, grant us good speed, and quietness, that Thine holy Angel may be with us, and that we may happily come thither whither we would, now, and, in the end, unto the haven of eternal salvation.

GOD, Who didst call Thy servant

Abraham out of Ur of the Chaldees, and didst keep him from evil through all the ways of his pilgrimage, we beseech Thee, that it may please Thee to keep us Thy servants. Be Thou unto us, O Lord, an help when we go forward, a comfort by the way, a shadow from the heat, a covering from the rain and the cold, a chariot in weariness, a refuge in trouble, a staff in slippery paths, an haven in shipwreck. Do Thou lead us, that we may happily come thither where we would be, and thereafter come again safe unto our own home.

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RACIOUSLY hear our supplications, O Lord, we beseech Thee, and order the goings of Thy servants in the safe path that leadeth unto salvation in Thee, that amidst all the manifold changes of this life's pilgrimage, Thy shield may never cease from us.

RANT, we beseech Thee, O Almighty ward in the path of salvation, and by giving heed to the preaching of the blessed Fore-runner John, may safely attain unto Him Whom John preached, even our Lord JESUS Christ Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, one God, world without end. Amen.

Verse. Let us go on in peace. Answer. In the name of the Lord. Amen.

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General Appendix.

DECEMBER 1.

Second Day within the Octave of St. Andrew.

All as on the Feast, except that the Antiphons are not doubled, and the following.

FIRST NOCTURN.

Lessons from Scripture according to the Season.

SECOND NOCTURN. Fourth Lesson.

The Lesson is taken from the Sermons of St. Peter Chrysologus, [Archbishop of Ravenna.] (Sermon 133.) THIS day is well called the day of

blessed Andrew's birth, whereon indeed he came not forth out of his mother's womb into this life that now is, but whereon, having been conceived in faith, he was born through martyrdom into glory; whereon he lay not down wailing in his mother's cradle, but entered with unspeakable joy into the unseen mansions above; whereon he sucked not from his mother's breast a feeble nourishment of milk, but like a loyal soldier, shed his brave blood for his King. And he is alive; for the fighters in the heavenly warfare are the slayers of death.

Fifth Lesson.

ERE in death he followeth the Lord

H passionately and hungrily; he

straineth every nerve to follow in the Lord's Foot-prints, lest in the race he

should fall behind his brother [Peter,] who had been his like by nature, his comrade by calling, and his peer by grace. Together had the brothers, at one word from the Lord, left their father, their home, and their goods. Together had they unweariedly devoted themselves to Christ, in toil, in shame, in journeying, in insult, in watching. Once only, when the Lord was suffering, had Andrew forsaken Him and fled, and then he fell not alone, for Peter denied. But upon this let us be silent. The brethren committed divers faults, but received alike the same forgiveness.

Sixth Lesson.

THAT Cross which had once scared

them, was afterward the object whereunto both hasted with all their strength, that as it had once led them into guilt, it might now be made a stepping-stone to heaven, the mean of a reward and a crown. Peter goeth up upon the cross, Andrew upon the tree, that they who leapt for joy to suffer with Christ, might in their own persons show forth the likeness of His Passion, the redeemed of His tree be perfected for the palm. And thus doth our Andrew, though he yield to Peter in place of honour, come behind him neither in his reward nor in his works.

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