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Sixth Sunday After Epiphany
Second Class
[Latin Text]
Introit: Psalm xcvi: 7-8
Adore God, all you His angels. Sion heard and was glad, and the
daughters of Juda rejoiced. [Ps.] The Lord has reigned, let the
earth rejoice, let the many islands be glad. Glory be.... Adore
God....
Collect:
Grant, we beseech
Thee, almighty God, that ever meditating upon the truths Thou
hast proposed for our intelligence, we may in every word and work of
ours, do that which is pleasing to Thee.
Additional
Collects of the Season after the Purification
Epistle: 1 Thessalonians i: 2-10
A reading from the
Epistle of blessed Paul the Apostle to the Colossians:
Brethren: We give thanks to
God always for you all, making a remembrance
of you in our prayers without ceasing, being mindful of the
work of your faith and labor of your charity, and of the enduring of
the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ before God and
our Father -- knowing, brethren, beloved of God, of your election -- for
our Gospel has not been unto you in word only, but in power also, and in the
Holy Ghost, and in great fullness, as you know what manner of men we
have been among you for your sakes. And you
became our followers, and followers of the Lord, receiving
the word in much tribulation, with joy of the Holy
Ghost: so that you were made a pattern to all that believe in
Macedonia and in Achaia. For from you spread abroad the word
of the Lord, not only in Macedonia and in Achaia, but
also in every place your faith in God has gone forth,
so that we need not speak of it. They themselves relate how we were
able to convince you; and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living
and true God, and to wait for His Son from heaven (whom He raised up from the
dead), Jesus, who has delivered us from the wrath to come.
Gradual: Psalm ci: 16-17
The Gentiles shall fear Thy name, O Lord, and all the kings of the
earth Thy glory. For the Lord has built up Sion, and He shall be seen
in His glory.
Alleluia, alleluia. The Lord has reigned, let the earth rejoice:
let the many islands be glad. Alleluia.
Gospel: Matthew xiii: 31-35
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The continuation of the Holy Gospel according to Matthew:
At that time, Jesus spoke this parable to
the multitudes, "The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard
seed, which man took and sowed in his field: which is the least, indeed of
all seeds: butwhen it is grown up, it is greater than all herbs and
becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and dwell in the
branches thereof."Another parable He spoke to them,
"The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a
woman took and hid in three measures of meal, until the whole
was leavened." All these things Jesus spoke in parables tothe
multitudes; and without parables He did not speak to them, that it might
be fulfilled which was spoken by the Prophet, saying, "I
will open my mouth in parables; I will utter
things hidden from the foundation of the world."
Credo.
Offertory: Psalm cxvii: 16,17
The right hand of the Lord hath wrought strength: the right hand of
the Lord has exalted me: I shall not die but live, and shall declare
the works of the Lord.
Secret
May this
oblation, O God, we beseech Thee, cleanse and renew, govern
and protect us.
Additional
Secret prayers of the Season after the Purification
Preface
of the Trinity
Communion: Luke iv: 22
All wondered at the things which proceeded from the mouth of the
Lord.
Postcommunion:
Being nourished, O Lord,
with heavenly delights, we beseech Thee that we may ever hunger after those
things by which we truly live.
Additional
Postcommunion prayers of the Season after the Purification
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