The voice of Christ is heard in the Holy Gospel. Moses is read in the Commandments. Prophets and Apostles speak to us in the Epistles. UR Father, which art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy Name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, As it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, As we forgive them that trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation; But deliver us from evil. Amen. THE COLLECT FOR PURITY. LMIGHTY God, unto Whom all hearts be open, all desires Aknown, and from Whom no secrets are hid; Cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of Thy Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love Thee, and worthily magnify Thy Holy Name; through Christ our Lord. Amen. "O send out Thy light and Thy truth that they may lead me." "And that I may go unto the Altar of God, even unto the God of my joy and gladness."-Psalm xliii. TH OD spake these words and said: I am the Lord Thy Lord, have mercy upon us, and incline our hearts to keep this law. HOU shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, and visit the sins of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Me, and shew mercy unto thousands in them that love Me, and keep My commandments. Lord, have mercy upon us, and incline our hearts to keep this Law. ΤΗ HOU shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain : for the Lord will not hold him guiltless, that taketh His Name in vain. Lord, have mercy upon us, and incline our hearts to keep this Law. R EMEMBER that thou keep holy the Sabbath-day. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all that thou hast to do; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. In it thou shalt do no manner of work, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, thy cattle, and the stranger that is within thy gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and The Commandments. rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the seventh day and hallowed it. Lord, have mercy upon us, and incline our hearts to keep this Law. ONOUR thy father and thy mother; that thy days may H be long in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. Lord, have mercy upon us, and incline our hearts to keep this Law. Lord, have mercy upon us, and incline our hearts to keep this Law. Lord, have mercy upon us, and incline our hearts to keep this Law. Lord, have mercy upon us, and incline our hearts to keep this Law. HOU shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. THOU Lord, have mercy upon us, and incline our hearts to keep this Law. THO HOU shalt not covet thy neighbour's house; thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife; nor his servant, nor his maid, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is his. Lord, have mercy upon us, and write all these Thy Laws in our hearts, we beseech Thee. |