FRIDAY IN EMBER WEEK.

INTROIT. Ps. civ. Let the hearts cf them rejoice that seek the Lord: seek ye the Lord, and be strengthened: seek his face evermore. Ps. Give glory to the Lord, and call upon his name: declare his deeds among the Gentiles. V. Glory.

COLLECT. Præsta.-Grant, we beseech thee, O Almighty God, that whilst with yearly devotion we keep these holy appointed times, we may be well-pleasing to thee in body and mind. Thro'.

LESSON. Osee. xiv. 2.-Thus saith the Lord: Return, O Israel, to the Lord thy God: for thou hast fallen down by thy iniquity. Take with you words, and return to the Lord and say to him: Take away all iniquity, and receive the good; and we will render the calves of our lips. Assyria shall not save us, we will not ride upon horses, neither will we say any more: the works of our hands are our gods; for thou wilt have mercy on the fatherless that is in thee. I will heal their breaches, I will love them freely; for my wrath is turned away from them. I will be as the dew, Israel shall spring as the lily, and his root shall shoot forth as that of Libanus. His branches shall spread, and his glory shall be as the olive-tree; and his smell as that of Libanus. They shall be converted that sit under his shadow. they shall live upon wheat, and they shall blossom as a vine: his memorial shall be as the wine of Libanus. Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I will hear him, and I will make him flourish like a green fir-tree: from me is thy fruit found. Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know these things?-For the ways of the Lord are right, and the just shall walk in them; but the transgressor shall fall in them.

GRAD. Ps. lxxxix.-Turn to us, O Lord, a while

and hear thy servants. V. Lord, thou hast been our refuge from generation to generation.

GOSPEL. Luke vii. 36. 50. as in p. 221. OFFERT. Ps. cii.-Bless the Lord, O my soil, and never forget all he hath done for thee: and thy youth shall be renewed like the eagle's.

SECRET.-May the sacrifice we offer on this fast, O Lord, we beseech thee, be well pleasing to thee; that cleansing away our sins, it may make us worthy of thy grace, and bring us to thy eternal promises. Thro'.

COMM. Ps. cxviii.-Remove from me reproach and contempt; because I have sought after thy ordinances, O Lord: for thy testimonies are my meditation.

P. COMM. Quæsumus.-We beseech, thee, O almighty God, that while we return thee thanks for what we have received, we may receive those blessings, which are still greater. Thro’.

SATURDAY IN EMBER WEEK.

INTROIT. Ps. xciv.-Come let us adore God, and fall down before the Lord, and weep before the Lord that made us; for he is the Lord our God. Ps. Come let us praise the Lord with joy: let us joyfully sing to God our Saviour. V. Glory.

After Kyrie eleison, is said,

Let us pray. Let us kneel down. R. Stand up again. I. COLLECT.-O Almighty and everlasting God, who, by a wholesome abstinence, healest both body and soul: we humbly beseech thy Majesty, that, being appeased by our prayers and fasts, thou mayest grant us present and future help. Thro'.

I. LESSON. Lev. xxiii. 26.-In those days: The Lord spake to Moses saying: Upon the tenth day of the seventh month shall be the day of atonement; it shall be most solemn, and shall be called holy: and you shall afflict your souls on that day, and

shall offer a holocaust to the Lord. You shall do no servile work in the time of this day; because it is a day of propitiation, that the Lord your God may be merciful unto you. Every soul that is not afflicted on this day, shall perish from among his people: and every soul that shall do any work, the same will I destroy from among his people. You shall do no work therefore on that day: it shall be an everlasting ordinance unto you in all your generations and dwellings. It is a Sabbath of rest, and you shall afflict your souls, beginning on the ninth day of the month: from evening until evening you shall celebrate your Sabbaths, saith the Lord Almighty.

GRAD. Ps. xxviii.-Forgive us, O Lord, our sins: never let the Gentiles say: Where is now their God? V. Help us, O God our Saviour; and for the honour of thy name O Lord, deliver us.

Let us pray. Let us kneel down. R. Stand up again.

II. COLLECT. Da nobis. Graut, we beseech thee, O Almighty God, that by fasting we may be filled with thy grace; and by abstinence become stronger than all our enemies. Thro'.

II. LESSON. Lev. xxiii. 39. 43.-In those days: The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: From the fiftieth day of the seventh month, when you shall have gathered in all the fruits of your land, you shall celebrate the feast of the Lord seven days, on the first day and the eighth shall be a Sabbath, that is a day of rest. And you shall take to you on the first day the fruits of the fairest tree, and branches of palm trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook, and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God. And you shall keep the solemnity thereof seven days in the year. It shall be an everlasting ordinance in your generations. In the seventh month shall you celebrate this feast. And you shall dwell in bowers seven days, every one that is of the race of Israel, shall dwell in tabernacles: that your pos

terity may know that I made the children of Israe to dwell in tabernacles, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.

GRAD. Pe. İxxxiii.-Behold, O God, our Protector, look down on thy servants. V. Lord God of Hosts, hear the prayers of thy servants.

Let us pray. Let us kneel down. R. Stand up again.

III. COLLECT. Tuere.-Defend, O Lord, we beseech thee, thy family; that by thy bounty, we may obtain those helps of salvation, which, by thy inspiration, we seek after. Thro'.

III. LESSON. Micheas vii. 14.-O Lord our God: Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thy inheritance, them that dwell alone in the forest, according to the days of old. The nations shall see, and shall be confounded at all their strength. Who is a God like to thee, who takest away iniquity, and passest by the sin of the remnant of thy inheritance? he will send his fury in no more, because he delighteth in mercy. He will turn again and have mercy on us: he will put away our iniquities; and he will cast all our sins into the bottom of the sea. Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, thy mercy to Abraham which thou hast sworn to our fathers, from the days of old, O Lord our God.

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GRAD. Ps. lxxxix.-Turn to us, O Lord, a while, and hear thy servants. V. O Lord, thou hast been our refuge from generation to generation. Let us pray. Let us kneel down. R. Stand up again.

IV. COLLECT. Præsta.-Grant, O Lord, we beseech thee, that we may so abstain from corporeal food, as to fast from all those vices that attack us. Thro'.

IV. LESSON. Zach. viii. 14.-In those days: The word of the Lord came to me saying: Thus saith the Lord of Hosts: As I purposed to afflict you, when your fathers had provoked me to wrath, and I had no mercy: so turning again, I have thought

in these days to do good to the house of Juca, and Jerusalem: fear not. These then are the things which you shall do: Speak ye truth every one to his neighbour: judge ye truth and judgment of peace in your gates. And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his friend: and love not a false oath: for all these are the things that I hate, saith the Lord. And the word of the Lord of Hosts came to me, saying: Thus saith the Lord of Hosts: The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Juda, joy, and gladness, and great solemnities; only love ye truth, and peace, saith the Lord of Hosts.

GRAD. Ps. cxl.-Let my prayer be directed as incense in thy sight, O Lord. V. The lifting up of my hands, as evening sacrifice.

Let us pray. Let us kneel down. R. Stand up again.

V. COLLECT. Ut nobis.-As it is by thy grace, O Lord, we render thee the tribute of this solemn fast ; so grant us, we beseech thee, the favour of thy mercy and pardon. Thro'.

V. LESSON. Dan. iii. 49.—In those days: The angel of the Lord went down with Azarias and his companions into the furnace: and he drove the flame of the fire out of the furnace, and made the midst of the furnace like the blowing of a wind bringing dew, and the fire touched them not at all, nor troubled them, nor did them any harm. Then these three, as with one mouth, praised and glorified, and blessed God in the furnace saying.

Here follow the Canticle and VI. Collect. pp. 66, 67. with the Collect, A cunctis, p. xx.

EPISTLE. Heb. ix. 2. 12.-Brethren: The e was a tabernacle made the first, wherein were the candlesticks, and the table, and the setting forth of loaves, which is called the Holy. And after the second veil, the tabernacle, which is called the