An order for matins and evensong and the celebration of the holy communion, commonly called the mass. Together with a brief ceremonial |
Common terms and phrases
albs altar Amen Answer Anthem Apostle Ascension Bishop bless ye cense chalice Chap choir Christ our Lord Church Clergy clerks Communion Creed day or season deacon double feasts earth Ember Days Epiphany Eucharist Evensong Father feasts with rulers feasts without rulers feria follow forgive give Gospel grace grant hast hath heaven Holy Ghost Holy-day Hymn Idus Introit Invitatory Jesus Christ Kalendæ kneeling later evening service Lent lessons let the Priest Let us pray Lord's Prayer Luke magnify Martyr Mass Matins Matins and Evensong Maundy Maundy Thursday Minister Nonæ peace praise Prid Priest Psalm Rogation Days Saints second Collect sedilia Septuagesima simple feasts sing sins song Souls subdeacon sung taper-bearers thee to hear thine thurifer Thursday thy holy thy mercy thy Name thy servants thy Son Jesus thy spirit trespasses Trinity Sunday unto thee Vigils Virgin week-days world without end ye the Lord
Popular passages
Page 49 - He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name ; which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
Page 48 - PREVENT us, O Lord, in all our doings, with thy most gracious favour, and further us with thy continual help, that in all our works begun, continued, and ended in thee, we may glorify thy holy Name, and finally by thy mercy obtain everlasting life, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Page 21 - Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them...
Page 44 - Father, who of thy tender mercy didst give thine only Son Jesus Christ to suffer death upon the Cross for our redemption ; who made there (by his one oblation of himself once offered) a full, perfect, and sufficient sacrifice, oblation, and satisfaction, for the sins of the whole world...
Page 41 - Majesty ; beseeching Thee to inspire continually the universal Church with the spirit of truth, unity, and concord. And grant, that all they that do confess Thy holy Name may agree in the truth of Thy holy Word, and live in unity, and godly love.
Page 1 - O Lord, save thy people : and bless thine heritage. Govern them : and lift them up for ever. Day by day : we magnify thee ; And we worship thy Name : ever world without end. Vouchsafe, O Lord : to keep us this day without sin. O Lord, have mercy upon us : have mercy upon us. O Lord, let thy mercy lighten upon us : as our trust is in thee. O Lord, in thee have I trusted : let me never be confounded.
Page 21 - Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath-day. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all that thou hast to do ; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy GOD. In it thou shalt do no manner of work, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, thy cattle, and the stranger that is within thy gates. For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day : wherefore the LORD blessed the seventh day, and hallowed...
Page 1 - God; we acknowledge thee to be the Lord. All the earth doth worship thee, the Father everlasting. To thee, all Angels cry aloud; the Heavens, and all the Powers therein. To thee, Cherubim and Seraphim continually do cry, Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Sabaoth; Heaven and earth are full of the Majesty of thy Glory.
Page 48 - There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
Page 42 - IT is very meet, right, and our bounden duty, that we should at all times, and in all places, give thanks unto Thee, O LORD, *Holy FATHER, Almighty, Everlasting GOD.