The Twenty-fifth
Sunday after Trinity.
(from The Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany)
Habakkuk 3.2-11
Domine audivi
O LORD, I have heard thy speech, and was
afraid: * O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years,
In the midst of the years make known; *
in wrath remember mercy.
God came from Teman, * and the Holy One
from mount Paran. Selah.
His glory covered the heavens, * and
the earth was full of his praise.
And his brightness was
as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: * and
there was the hiding of his power.
Before him went the pestilence, * and
burning coals went forth at his feet.
He stood, and measured the earth: * he
beheld, and drove asunder the nations;
And the everlasting mountains were
scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: * his ways are everlasting.
I saw the tents of Cushan in
affliction: * and the curtains of the land of Midian did
tremble.
Was the LORD displeased against the
rivers? * was thine anger against the rivers?
Was thy wrath against the sea, * that thou didst ride upon thine
horses and thy chariots of salvation?
Thy bow was made quite naked, * according to
the oaths of the tribes, even thy word. Selah. Thou didst
cleave the earth with rivers. * The mountains saw thee, and they
trembled:
The overflowing of the water passed by:
* the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.
The sun and moon stood
still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, * and at
the shining of thy glittering spear.
Glory be to the Father and to the Son *
and to the Holy Ghost.
As it was in the beginning, is now, and
ever shall be, * world without end. Amen.
The Collect.
O GOD, whose blessed
Son was manifested that he might destroy the works of the devil, and make us
the sons of God, and heirs of eternal life; Grant us, we beseech thee, that,
having this hope, we may purify ourselves, even as he is pure; that, when he
shall appear again with power and great glory, we may be made like unto him in
his eternal and glorious kingdom; where with thee, O Father, and thee, O Holy
Ghost, he liveth and reigneth, ever one God, world without end. Amen.
Old Testament
Reading: Isaiah 66.1-2, 10, 12-16, 18-23
Psalter: Psalm 75,
138, 98 | 9, 76, 96
Epistle Reading: 1
John 3.1-8
Gospel Reading: St.
Matthew 24.23-31
