CIRCUMCISION AND OCTAVE OF THE NATIVITY. 155 sion of the Spirit; that, our | they which are of the law be hearts, and all our members, heirs, faith is made void, and being mortified from all the promise made of none worldly and carnal lusts, we effect. may in all things obey Thy blessed will. Through the same Thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Who liveth. No Commemorations. EPISTLE. Romans iv. 8. GRADUAL. In Christ Jesus we have redemption through His Blood: according to the riches of His grace, wherein He hath abounded toward us. V. And we have known and believed the love that God Ephes. i. 7. BLESSED is the man to hath to us. whom the Lord will not impute sin. Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? For we say, that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. How was it Alleluia, alleluia. V. We therefore love God: because God first loved us. Alleluia. 1 St. John iv. 19. (P.) GOSPEL. St. Luke ii. 15. AND it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another: Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass,. which the Lord hath made known unto us. And they came with haste, and found Mary and Joseph, and the Babe lying in a manger. And when they had seen it, they made known abroad the say then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision. And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised; that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also: And the fathering which was told them conof circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised. For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. For if cerning this Child. And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds. But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart. And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things. that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them. And when eight days were: accomplished for the circumcising of the Child, His Name was called JESUS, which was so named of the angel¶ before He was conceived in the womb. The Creed. OFFERTORY. We have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous: and He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for our sins only, but also for the sins of the whole world. 1 St. John ii. 1. (P.) LORD, we beseech Thee, by the power of these holy Mysteries: mortify and kill all vices in our hearts; and only suffer that to live within us, whereby we may be able to serve and please Thee. Through. (P.) II. JANUARY. Protomartyr. cording to the Sarum use, unless the Octave fall upon Sunday. The Memorial of St. Mary is said from and on this day, on week days, feasts, and Sundays, till the Purification; except on the Eve and Feast of the Epiphany. III. JANUARY. Oct. of St. John, Evang. ¶ All as on the feast-day, with Commemoration of the SS. Innocents. The Creed is not said; the proper Preface of Apostles. IV. JANUARY. ¶ All as on the feast-day, except that Gloria in excelsis and Alleluia are said; the Creed is not said. V. JANUARY. Eve of the Epiphany. INTROIT. Exurge Jerusalem. ARISE, O Jerusalem, and look about toward the east, and behold thy children gathered from the east the Lord bringeth them unto thee exalted with glory, as children of the kingdom. Bar. v. 5, 6. PSALM. Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem God, O Sion Glory. Arise. (P.) COLLECT. LORD, we beseech Thee, let the brightness of Thy coming feast-day shine upon our hearts: whereby we may be able to escape the darkness of this world, and come at length to the country of everlasting glory. Through. LESSON. Numb. xxiv. 15. they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord. Isa. xlix. 22, 23. Alleluia, alleluia. V. I will confess to Thee among the Gentiles, O Lord: and sing Alleluia. unto Thy Name. Rom. xv. 9. (P.) GOSPEL. St. Matthew ii. 19. AND Balaam took up his parable, and said: Ba- WHEN Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the laam the son of Beor hath Lord appeareth in a dream to said, and the man whose Joseph in Egypt, saying: eyes are open hath said: Arise, and take the young He hath said, which heard Child and His mother, and the words of God, and knew go into the land of Israel; the knowledge of the most for they are dead which High, which saw the vision sought the of the Almighty, falling into And he arose, and took the young Child's life. a trance, but having his eyes young Child and His mother, open: I shall see Him, but and came into the land of not now: I shall behold Him, Israel. But when he heard but not nigh: there shall that Archelaus did reign in come a Star out of Jacob, Judæa in the room of his and a Sceptre shall rise out father Herod, he was afraid of Israel, and shall smite the to go thither; notwithstandcorners of Moab, and destroying, being warned of God all the children of Sheth. And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also shall be a possession for his enemies; and Israel shall do valiantly. Out of Jacob shall come He That shall have dominion, and shall destroy him that remaineth of the city. (P.) GRADUAL. Behold, I will lift up Mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up My standard to the people: and they shall bring in their arms thy sons and thy daughters. V. Kings shall be thy nursing fathers; in a dream, he turned aside into the parts of Galilee: and he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets: He shall be called a Nazarene. The Creed is not said, unless it be Sunday. OFFERTORY. All people, nations, and languages shall serve Him: His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away; and His kingdom that which shall not be destroyed. Dan. | of it. Alleluia. Rev. xxi. vii. 14. (P.) SECRET. 23. (P.) POSTCOMMUNION. GRANT, O Lord, we be- GRANT us, O Lord, we seech Thee, that we may offer and receive in this Sarcifice Him, Whose coming solemnity these holy gifts foretell, even Jesus Christ, Thy Son, our Lord. Who liveth. to beseech Thee, worthily celebrate the Mystery of our Saviour's infancy, declared by such shining miracles: Whose Manhood also was made manifest by His bodily growth. Through the same. ¶ The Gloria in excelsis is not said, unless it be Sunday. The Epiphany of our Lord. INTROIT. Ecce advenit. BEHOLD, the Lord the Behold. COLLECT. phets by the Spirit: That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of His promise in Christ, by the Gospel: whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of His power. Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace GOD, Who by the lead-given, that I should preach ing of a star didst manifest Thy Only-begotten Son to the Gentiles: mercifully grant; that we, which know Thee now by faith, may after this life have the fruition of Thy glorious Godhead. Through. among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ; and to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, Who created all things by Jesus Christ: to the intent, that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the Church the manifold wisdom of God, ac EPISTLE. Ephesians iii. I. FOR this cause, I, Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles; if ye have heard of the dispen-cording to the eternal pursation of the grace of God, which is given me to youward: How that by revelation He made known unto me the mystery (as I wrote afore in few words, whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ) which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto His holy Apostles and Pro pose which He purposed in Whom we have boldness and Christ Jesus our Lord: in access with confidence by the faith of Him. GRADUAL. All they from Sheba shall come, they shall bring gold and incense: and they shall shew forth the praises of the Lord. V. Arise, shine, O Jerusalem: for the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. Isa. lx. 6, 1. |