THE TUESDAY BEFORE EASTER. Lessons: Lam. iii.; St. John xv. For the Epistle: Isa. i. 5. Gospel: St. Mark xv. I-40. "For the Lord God will help me, therefore shall I not be confounded. "Who is among you that feareth the Lord, and obeyeth the voice of His servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God."-Isaiah 1. 7, 10. 66 And now is My soul troubled." Can it be? In that low moan of anguish. Was Thy soul, Thy Father's will, which in Thy secret breast The world new nothing of. And yet Thy soul Trouble then was uppermost, Not joy, not peace, but trouble and unrest, What time these holy words dropp'd from Thy lips; Oh, peace, my heart : It is not sin to feel the bitterness Of sorrow, nor to tremble, as the storm It is not sin to weep, and make our moan. "Father, Thy will, not mine, Thy will be done." THE WEDNESDAY BEFORE EASTER. Lessons: Lam. iv. 1–21; Dan. ix. 20; St. John xvi. Epistle: Heb. ix. 16. Gospel: St. Luke xxii. "This do in remembrance of Me.”—St. Luke xxii. 19. Dark is the veil that hangs between The golden links which brethren bind O blessed banquet of delight! F THE THURSDAY BEFORE EASTER. Lessons: Hosea xiii. Epistle : 1 Cor. xi. 17. 1–15, xiv.; St. John xvii., xiii. 1-36. Gospel: St. Luke xxiii. 1—50. "As often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do show forth the Lord's death till He come."-1 Cor. xi. 26. Till He come-Oh, let the words When the weary ones we love Seems the earth so poor and vast, All our life-joy overcast? Clouds and conflicts round us press: See the feast of love is spread, GOOD FRIDAY. Lessons Gen. xxii. 1—20; Isaiah lii. v. 13 and liii. ; St. John xviii.; 1 Peter ii. Epistle Heb. x. I-26. Gospel : St. John xix. 1—38. THE COLLECTS. ALMIGHTY God, we beseech Thee graciously to behold this Thy family, for which our Lord Jesus Christ was contented to be betrayed, and given up into the hands of wicked men, and to suffer death upon the cross, who now liveth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Amen. ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, by whose Spirit the whole body of the Church is governed and sanctified; Receive our supplications and prayers, which we offer before Thee for all estates of men in Thy holy Church, that every member of the same, in his vocation and ministry, may truly and godly serve Thee; through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen. O MERCIFUL God, who hast made all men, and hatest nothing that Thou hast made, nor wouldest the death of a sinner, but rather that he should be converted and live; Have mercy upon all Jews, Turks, Infidels, and Heretics, and take from them all ignorance, hardness of heart, and contempt of Thy Word; and so fetch them home, blessed Lord, to Thy flock, that they may be saved among the remnant of the true Israelites, and be made one fold under one shepherd, Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, world without end. Amen. |