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For Angelic Succour. St. Michael and All Angels. For Pardon, Absolution, Peace. Ash-Wednesday; 2nd Sunday after Epiphany; 12th, 21st, 24th Sundays after Trinity.

For a Resurrection to Life and Joy. 6th Sunday after Epiphany; Sunday before Easter; Easter Even; Sunday after Ascension; All Saints. The following supplicate for inward holiness, gifts, and graces:

Holiness. 1st Sunday in Lent; 1st, 2nd, 4th Sundays after Easter; 7th, 11th, 14th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 25th Sundays after Trinity; All Saints. Heavenly-Mindedness. Ascension Day; 4th Sunday after Easter.

Love to God. 6th Sunday after Trinity.

Knowledge of Christ. SS. Philip and James.
Health of Soul. St. Luke.

Spiritual Help. 1st and 9th Sundays after Trinity.
Spiritual Gifts. St. Barnabas.

Understanding of Scripture. 2nd Sunday in Advent.
Stedfastness in the Truth. Conversion of St. Paul;
St. Mark; Trinity Sunday.

Guidance in Prayer. 10th Sunday after Trinity.
Boldness to rebuke Vice. St. John the Baptist.

Comfort. Sunday after Ascension; Whit-Sunday. Charity, Faith, Hope. Quinquagesima; 14th Sunday after Trinity.

Penitence. Ash-Wednesday.

Humility and Patience. Sunday before Easter.

Obedience to Christ's Call. St. Andrew; St. James.

Right Judgment. Whit Sunday.

Undoubting Faith. St. Thomas.

Freedom from Covetousness. St. Matthew.

Freedom from Evil Thoughts. 2nd Sunday in Lent. Performance of Good Desires. Easter Day; 5th

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St. Andrew. The one composed for 1549 turned upon his martyrdom, "the sharp and painful death of the cross," as to which Scripture is silent. 1552 it was replaced by the present one, turning upon his call.

St. Stephen.-Composed by Bishop Cosin in 1662, founded on an ancient Latin original. It seems distantly to allude to the trials and sufferings of the preceding Commonwealth period.

The Presentation of Christ in the Temple is recognised as a fact in His human life and a witness to His Incarnation.

The Purification is alluded to by a petition that we may be presented to God with pure and clean hearts.

Annunciation.-Turns on the Angelic message as revealing the Incarnation of Christ.

Easter Even.-The Collect, drawn up in 1662, was founded on one composed for the Scottish Prayer Book in 1636. The English Prayer Book before 1662 had no Collect for this day, though it had an Epistle and Gospel.

St. Mark.-Begins like the Sarum collect; but whereas that petitioned for defence through the saint's prayer, the passage "being not like children carried away," etc., was substituted in 1549.

St. Peter.-Turns chiefly on the apostle's pastorate, without any mention of his martyrdom.

St. James.-It turns upon his call, without any allusion to his martyrdom, though there is Scripture authority for it.

St. Bartholomew.-Nearly that of the Sarum Use, but the petition that the Church may "preach what he taught" is omitted, perhaps because there is no express extant record of what he taught.

The Collects for Whit Sunday and Trinity Sunday were placed in the Primers in English (Mask. M. R. iii. 31; Burt. 92, 340, 359, 360, 467).

§ 97. Special Expressions :—

"Let and hindered." 4th Sunday in Advent. impeded.

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"Stewards of Thy mysteries." 3rd Sunday in Advent from 1 Cor. iv. 1.

"Endeavour ourselves." 2nd Sunday after Easter. Endeavour here used reflexively: =exert.

So again twice in the Ordination Service,
and once in Confirmation.

"From all adversities," Trinity Sunday. "Ab
omnibus adversis." Cf. Prov. xviii. 10.
"The Name of the Lord is a strong tower;
the righteous runneth into it and is safe."
"Prevent and follow us." 17th Sunday after
Trinity. "Et præveniat et sequatur."
"To have a right judgment in all things."
Whit Sunday, "recta sapere."

CHAPTER XX.

THE EPISTLES AND GOSPELS.

§ 98. Their History.-These selections from the New Testament have descended to us from early times, appearing first in a work called the Comes, from which, through the Sarum Use, it entered substantially into the First Common Prayer. The Comes or Companion was ascribed to Jerome by its editor Pamelius, though it is probably three or four centuries later than that Father (D.C.A. 622, a, 962, a). It may be seen in vol. xi. of Jerome's Works (P. L. xxx). It occurs in three editions (Pam. L.L. ii. 1; Bal. C. ii. 1309; Thom. Op. v. 297), and as these differ considerably it may be noted that Baluze is followed by Migne (P.L. xxx. 487), and Pamelius by the D. C. A. (p. 962). The Comes is in fact a Lectionary, giving a passage to be read from the Epistles and another from the Gospels for numerous week-days, and all the Sundays and holy days in the year, the opening and closing words of each portion being alone given. The Sunday and chief holy day portions of this Lectionary we have adopted, omitting the rest; and those form our present "Epistles and Gospels." Those portions are cited by chapter and verse in D.C.A., under the article "Lectionary," and

their occasional variations from the Prayer Book may be there observed. In the Prayer Book of 1662 the version of 1539 was altered to that of 1611.

§ 99. Notes.-The custom of the people to rise and sing "Glory be to Thee, O Lord" before the commencement of the Gospel was observed in the Eastern Churches (Sw., 16; N. & L. p. 7). Our rubric orders rising, but not the " Glory."

The present Epistle and Gospel for the Sixth Sunday after Epiphany were added, like the Collect for the same day, in 1662.

Palm Sunday (the next before Easter) is not recognised in the English Prayer Book, where the Gospel which relates our Lord's triumphal entry into Jerusalem is read on Advent Sunday, though not the Gospel which mentions palm branches. In the unreformed Church Palm Sunday was made much of, branches of willow and other trees being laid on the altar, exorcised, blessed, and afterwards carried in procession round the church. All this however was made a distinct service, in which was read the account of the children of Israel encamping by the palm grove of Elim (Exod. xv. 27—xvi. 10), and that of our Lord's entry into Jerusalem in John xii. 12-19, the only passage which mentions palm branches.

Holy Week.-The Epistles and Gospels for each day in this week were selected by the Reformers with an especial view to our Lord's Passion, instead of those appointed in the Sarum Use, which went on another plan. Every one of the Gospel accounts is read through in the course of the week.

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