Morning Prayer for the First Sunday in Lent, being also the Fiftieth Sunday of COVIDtide

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The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. Psalm 51. 17.

Rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil. Joel 2. 13.

Psalms: 38

1st Lesson: Genesis 13

2nd Lesson: Matthew 9. 1-17

Collect of the Day: Lord, who for our sake didst fast forty days and forty nights: Give us grace to use such abstinence, that, our flesh being subdued to the Spirit, we may ever obey thy godly motions in righteousness and true holiness, to thy honour and glory; who livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy Spirit, one God, world without end. Amen.

The Lenten Collect: Almighty and everlasting God, who hatest nothing that thou hast made, and dost forgive the sins of all them that are penitent: Create and make in us new and contrite hearts, that we worthily lamenting our sins, and acknowledging our wretchedness, may obtain of thee, the God of all mercy, perfect remission and forgiveness; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Ash Wednesday 2021

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Ash Wednesday Service at St. Paul’s Church, Halifax, Nova Scotia

The 40 days of Lent begins. #Fasting #Almsgiving #SecondLentInCOVIDtide

Remember, O man, that dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

Almighty and everlasting God, who hatest nothing that thou hast made, and dost forgive the sins of all them that are penitent: Create and make in us new and contrite hearts, that we worthily lamenting our sins, and acknowledging our wretchedness, may obtain of thee, the God of all mercy, perfect remission and forgiveness; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Holy Communion for Quinquagesima, being also the the minor feast of St Valentine, and the Forty-Ninth Sunday of COVIDtide

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Holy Communion at the Cathedral during COVIDtide

Quinquagesima = 50 days before Easter

The Cathedral did a BAS Communion Service (though it did recognize the minor feast of St Valentine), but I will list the BCP propers.

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. Matthew 5. 16.

Introit: Psalm 31. 1-22

Epistle: 1 Corinthians 13. 1

Gradual: Psalm 31. 21-26

Gospel: Luke 18. 31.

Collect of the Day: O Lord, who hast taught us that all our doings without charity are nothing worth: Send thy Holy Spirit, and pour into our hearts that most excellent gift of charity, the very bond of peace and of all virtues, without which whosoever liveth is counted dead before thee. Grant this for thine only Son Jesus Christ’s sake. Amen.

Morning Prayer for the Sunday called Sexegesima, being also the Forty-Eighth Sunday of COVIDtide

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Sexegesima = 60 days before Easter

Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. Isaiah 55. 6, 7.

Psalms: 42, 43

1st Lesson: Genesis 3

2nd Lesson: 1 Corinthians 10. 1-24

Collect of the Day: O Lord God, who seest that we put not our trust in any thing that we do: Mercifully grant that by thy power we may be defended against all adversity; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Solemn Morning Prayer for the Presentation of Christ in the Temple commonly called the Purification of Saint Mary the Virgin or Candlemas 🕯 in the Forty-Seventh Week of COVIDtide

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The hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit in truth; for the Father seeketh such to worship him. St John 4. 23.

(Setting: The Great Service, William Byrd)

Psalms: 45 (Rochester Cathedral Choir)

1st Lesson: 1 Samuel 1. 21-end

2nd Lesson: Hebrews 10. 1-10

Collect of the Day: Almighty and everliving God, we humbly beseech thy Majesty, that, as thy only-begotten Son was this day presented in the temple in substance of our flesh, so we may be presented unto thee with pure and clean hearts, by the same thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

O Lord Jesus Christ, the true light of the world, presented at the Temple on this day, bring forth the light to end the perilous darkness of night in our lives, so thy love can shine by these candles before us, and mercifully grant, that our hearts may be purified by the brightness of the Holy Ghost. Through, Jesus Christ, the Son, who with the Father and Holy Ghost, one God, world without end. Amen.

Nunc Dimittis (Song of Simeon): Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, / according to thy word. For mine eyes have seen thy salvation, / Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people; To be a light to lighten the Gentiles, / and to be the glory of thy people Israel. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, / and to the Holy Ghost; As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, / world without end. Amen.

Simeon’s Song of Praise, Rembrandt van Rijn, 1631

Candlemas falls on the same day as the secular Groundhog Day

Evensong for the Presentation of Christ in the Temple commonly called the Purification of Saint Mary the Virgin or Candlemas in the Forty-Seventh Week of COVIDtide

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Evensong for Candlemas in the new chapel

The Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him. Habakkuk 2. 20.

(Setting: Evensong in G, Charles Villiers Stanford)

Psalms: 26, 27 (Salisbury Cathedral Choir)

1st Lesson: Exodus 13. 11-16

2nd Lesson: Galatians 4. 1-4

Nunc Dimittis (Song of Simeon): Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace according to thy word. For mine eyes have seen thy salvation, Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people; To be a light to lighten the Gentiles and to be the glory of thy people Israel.

O Lord Jesus Christ, the true light, who enlightenest all coming into this world, pour forth Thy blessing upon these candles, and sanctify them with the light of Thy grace; and mercifully grant, that as these lights kindled with fire dispel the darkness of night, so our hearts illumined by the brightness of the Holy Ghost, may be free from the blindness of every sin; that the eye of our minds being purified; so that after the perilous darkness of this life we may deserve to arrive at never-failing light. Through Thee, Christ Jesus, Saviour of the world, who in perfect Trinity livest and reignest God, world without end. Amen

Lighten our darkness, we beseech thee, O Lord; and by thy great mercy defend us from all perils and dangers of this night; for the love of thy only Son, our Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen.