Annunciation of the
Blessed Virgin Mary – 25 March
Psalm
131
Domine, non est
LORD, I am not high-minded : I have no proud looks.
2. I do not exercise myself in great matters : which are too high for
me.
3. But I refrain my soul, and keep it low, like as a child that is
weaned from his mother : yea, my soul is even as a weaned child.
4. O Israel, trust in the Lord : from this time forth for evermore.
The Collect
We
beseech thee, O Lord, pour thy grace into our hearts; that, as we have known
the incarnation of thy Son Jesus Christ by the message of an angel, so by his
cross and passion we may be brought unto the glory of his resurrection; through
the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Old
Testament Reading: Isaiah 7.10-15
Psalter:
Psalm 8, 113 | 111, 138
Epistle
Reading: [Hebrews 2.5-18]
Gospel
Reading: St. Luke 1.26-38
Massey Hamilton Shepherd, Jr.: “The liturgical observance of the Feast
of the Annunciation cannot be traced earlier than the seventh century, though
as early as the third century March 25th had been determined as the
date of the Annunciation by Christian Chronographers. ( . . . ) Cranmer took
this Collect from the post-communion Collect of the Latin Mass for this day,
which passed from the Gregorian Sacramentary into the Sarum Missal. It is
admirably chosen because it links the theme of the Christmas cycle feasts, to
whiuch the Annunciation belongs, to the themes of Passiontide and Easter, the
seasons when Annunciation so commonly occurs” (“The Oxford American Prayer Book
Commentary,” 235-6).
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