24 October 2015 - Saint Raphael the Archangel

Greater Double – White

INTROIT Ps. 102.20

Bless the Lord, all ye his angels: you that are mighty in strength, and execute his word, hearkening to the voice of his orders. Ps. 102.1. Bless the Lord, O my soul: and let all that is within me bless his holy Name. V. Glory be.

COLLECT

O God, who didst give blessed Raphael the Archangel to thy servant Tobias, as a companion on his journey, grant to us, thy servants, that we may always be guarded by his care and strengthened by his help. Through.

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EPISTLE Tob. 12.7-15

In those days, the Angel Raphael said to Tobias: It is good to hide the secret of a king: but honourable to reveal and confess the works of God. Prayer is good with fasting and alms more than to lay up treasures of gold: For alms delivereth from death, and the same is that which purgeth away sins, and maketh to find mercy and life everlasting. But they that commit sin and iniquity are enemies to their own soul. I discover then the truth unto you, and I will not hide the secret from you. When thou didst pray with tears, and didst bury the dead, and didst leave thy dinner, and hide the dead by day in thy house, and bury them by night, I offered thy prayer to the Lord. And because thou wast acceptable to God, it was necessary that temptation should prove thee. And now the Lord hath sent me to heal thee, and to deliver Sara thy son's wife from the devil. For I am the angel Raphael, one of the seven who stand before the Lord.

GRADUAL Tob. 8.3; Ps. 146.5

The Angel of the Lord, Raphael, took and bound the devil. Great is our Lord, and great is his power.

Alleluia, alleluia. V. Ps. 137.1-2. The Lord hath sworn, and he will not repent: thou art a priest for ever according of the order of Melchisedech. Alleluia.

+ The Continuation of the Holy Gospel according to John (5.1-4)

At that time, Jesus said to his disciples: Watch ye therefore, because ye know not what hour your Lord will come. But know this ye, that if the goodman of the house knew at what hour the thief would come, he would certainly watch, and would not suffer his house to be broken open. Wherefore be you also ready, because at what hour you know not the Son of man will come. Who, thinkest thou, is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath appointed over his family, to give them meat in season? Blessed is that servant, whom, when his lord shall come, he shall find so doing. Amen I say to you, he shall place him over all his goods.

The Creed is said.

OFFERTORY Apoc. 8.3,4

An Angel stood near the altar of the temple, having a golden censer in his hand: and there was given to him much incense, and the smoke of the perfumes ascended to God.

SECRET

O Lord, we offer to thee the sacrifice of praise, humbly beseeching thee, through the intercession of thine Angel, that thou be appeased and accept it: and do thou make it conducive to our salvation. Through.

SEASONAL COLLECTS
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COMMUNION Dan. 3.58

All ye Angels of the Lord, bless ye the Lord: sing a hymn, and exalt him above all for ever.

POSTCOMMUNION

Vouchsafe, O Lord God, to send holy Raphael the Archangel to aid us: and may he who we believe ever standeth before thy Majesty present our poor prayers to be blessed by thee. Through.

SEASONAL COLLECTS
Of the Saints
Collect ad Libitum