Sunday, December 21, 2014

21 December 2014 - Fourth Sunday in Advent


Sunday of the II Class, Seidouble
Purple 

Nota bene: The Feast of St. Thomas the Apostle is transferred in accordance with the rubrics to Monday. 

INTROIT Isa. 45.8

Drop down dew, ye heavens, from above and let the clouds rain the just one. Let the earth be opened and bud forth a savior. Ps. 18.2. The heavens show forth the glory of God, and the firmament proclaims his handiwork. V. Glory be.

COLLECT

O Lord, show thyself an all-powerful God and come to us. Aid us with thy powerful assistance so that, through thy grace and merciful forgiveness, we may attain salvation, which now is hindered by our sins; who livest and reignest.

SEASONAL COLLECT
Of Saint Mary

EPISTLE I Cor. 4.1-5

Brethren: Let a man so account of us as of the ministers of Christ and the dispensers of the mysteries of God. Here now it is required among the dispensers that a man be found faithful. But to me it is a very small thing to be judged by you or by man's day. But neither do I judge my own self. For I am not conscious to myself of anything. Yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord. Therefore, judge not before the time: until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts. And then shall every man have praise from God.

GRADUAL Ps. 144.18, 21

The Lord is near to all who call upon him, to all who call upon him in truth. V. My lips shall speak the praise of the Lord; let all men bless his holy Name. Alleluia, alleluia. V. Come, O Lord; do not delay. Forgive the sins of Israel, thy people. Alleluia.

+ The Continuation of the Holy Gospel according to Luke (3.1-6)

Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and Philip his brother tetrarch of Iturea and the country of Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilina: Under the high priests Annas and Caiphas: the word of the Lord was made unto John, the son of Zachary, in the desert. And he came into all the country about the Jordan, preaching the baptism of penance for the remission of sins. As it was written in the book of the sayings of Isaias the prophet: A voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight his paths. Every valley shall be filled and every mountain and hill shall be brought low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways plain. And all flesh shall see the salvation of God. 

The Creed is said.

OFFERTORY Luke 1.28, 42

Hail, Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.

SECRET

Look with favor upon these offerings, O Lord, that they may be an aid to our devotion and to our salvation. Through.

SEASONAL COLLECT
Of Saint Mary

COMMUNION Isa. 7.14

Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and shall bear a son, and his Name shall be called Emmanuel.

POSTCOMMUNION

O Lord, may we, who have received thy Gifts, be brought closer to our salvation by each performance of this Sacred Rite. Through.

SEASONAL COLLECT
Of Saint Mary

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