Fragmenta liturgica - 1848 Author:Peter Hall Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE COLLECTS, EPISTLES, AND GOSPELS, To be used throughout the Tear. The first Sunday in Advent. The Collect. Almighty God, give us grace that we ... more »may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life, in which thy Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty, to judge both the quick and dead, we may rise to the life immortal, through him who liveth and reigneth with thee, now and ever. Amen. This Collect is to be repeated with the other Collects in Advent, until the Feast of the Nativity. The Epistle. Owe no man any thing. Horn. xiii. ver. 8. to the end. The Gospel. When they drew. St. Matth. xxi. ver. 1 to v. 14. The second Sunday in Advent. The Collect. Blessed Lord, who hast caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning ; Grant that we may in such wise hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that by patience and comfort of thy holy word, we may embrace, and ever hold fast, the blessed hope of everlasting life, which thou hast given us in our Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen. The Epistle. Whatsoever things were. Rom. xv. ver. 4 to v. 14. The Gospel. And there shall be. St. Luke ii. ver. 25 to v. 34. The third Sunday in Advent. The Collect. O Lord Jesus Christ, who at thy first coming didst send thy messenger to prepare thy way before thee; Grant that the ministers and stewards of thy mysteries may likewise so prepare and make ready thy way, by turning the hearts of the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, that, at thy second coming to judge the world, we may be found an acceptablepeople in thy sight, who livest and reignest with the Father, world without end. Amen. The ...« less