Again this year the weekly
Collects will be from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer. I will post the readings,
along with any rubrics, with the Collect. Because we have a great resource on
the Order’s website of homilies that have been pulled together according to the
calendar – thanks to the work of the Fundator, Mark Carroll – I will attach a
link to the homily that goes with the Collect. On occasion
I may also append some personal observations.
The First
Sunday of Advent.
Psalm 1
Beatus vir,
qui non abiit, &c.
1. BLESSED is the man that hath not
walked in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners : and
hath not sat in the seat of the scornful.
2. But his delight is in the law of
the Lord : and in his law will he exercise himself day and night.
3. And he shall be like a tree
planted by the water-side : that will bring forth his fruit in due season.
4. His leaf also shall not wither :
and look, whatsoever he doeth, it shall prosper.
5. As for the ungodly, it is not so
with them : but they are like the chaff, which the wind scattereth away from
the face of the earth.
6. Therefore the ungodly shall not be
able to stand in the judgement : neither the sinners in the congregation of the
righteous.
7. But the Lord knoweth the way of
the righteous : and the way of the ungodly shall perish.
The Collect.
ALMIGHTY God, give us
grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armour
of light, now in the time of this mortal life in which thy Son Jesus Christ
came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come
again in his glorious majesty to judge both the quick and the dead, we may rise
to the life immortal; through him who liveth and reigneth with thee and the
Holy Ghost, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
[This Collect is to be repeated every
day, with the other Collects in Advent, until Christmas-Eve.]
Old Testament Reading: Isaiah
28.14-22
Psalter: Morning-8, 50; Evening-96,
97
Epistle Reading: Romans 13.8-14
Gospel Reading: Matthew 21.1-13
Personal
note: The Epistle reading, on which the
Collect is beautifully based, is the very passage that had a powerful impact on
St. Augustine. Remember, he heard the child’s voice say to him, “Tolle lege, tolle lege (take up and
read)” and he picked up the Bible book in front of him (Romans) and it was
opened to this passage. He read and was converted! Every year when I use this
Collect I am reminded of this episode.
Saint Andrew the
Apostle
(November 30)
(November 30)
[A helpful snippet from the Rubric in the 1962 BCP-Canada: “A Holy-day falling on a Sunday in Advent or
Lent, or on Ash Wednesday or Ascension Day, shall be transferred to the following Tuesday.”]
ALMIGHTY God, who didst give such grace unto thy holy Apostle Saint
Andrew, that he readily obeyed the calling of thy Son Jesus Christ, and followed
him without delay; Grant unto us all, that we, being called by thy holy Word,
may forthwith give up ourselves obediently to fulfil thy holy commandments;
through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Old Testament Reading: Isaiah 55.1-5
Psalter: Psalm 34
Epistle Reading: Romans 10.9-21
Gospel Reading: Matthew 4.18-22 (see
also John 1.35-42)
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