Ember Wednesday
September 16, 2009
This Sunday at St. Barnabas the Apostle
Traditional Anglican Church
Sung Mass at 11:15 A.M.
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Trinity XV.
The Collect. 
KEEP, we beseech thee, O Lord, thy Church with thy perpetual mercy; and, because the frailty of man without thee cannot but fall, keep us ever by thy help from all things hurtful, and lead us to all things profitable to our salvation; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Amen.
The Epistle. Galatians vi. 11.
Brethren: YE see how large a letter I have written unto you with mine own hand. As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ. For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh. But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God. From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus. Brethren, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.
The Gospel. St. Matthew vi. 24.
NO man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Therefore I say unto you, Be not anxious for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than the food, and the body than the raiment? Behold the birds of the heaven, that they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not ye of much more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add one cubit unto the measure of his life? And why are ye anxious concerning raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God doth so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? Be not therefore anxious, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? For after all these things do the Gentiles seek; for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first his kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Be not therefore anxious for the morrow: for the morrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
OUR HYMNS for THIS WEEK
(Speakers ON!)
PRO #280
OFF #446
*COM #204
REC #600
* Words: Thomas Aquinas, ca. 1260;
trans. The Monastic Diurnal, 1932, alt.
Music: Adoro devote
Humbly I adore thee, verity unseen
who thy glory hidest, beneath these shadows mean
lo, to thee surrendered, my whole heart is bowed
tranced as it beholds thee, shrined within the cloud.
Taste and touch and vision to discern thee fail
faith that comes by hearing, pierces through the veil
I believe whatever the son of God hath told
what the truth hath spoken, that for truth I hold.
O memorial wondrous of the Lord’s own death
living bread that givest all they creatures breath
grant my spirit ever by thy life may live
to my taste they sweetness never failing give.
Jesus, whom now hidden, I by faith behold
what my soul doth long for, that thy word foretold
face to face thy splendor I at last shall see
in the glorious vision, blessed Lord, of thee. |
