The Third Sunday of Easter.
1st
Evensong
The Psalms Appointed
2 & 57
The Antiphon for the Magnificat
Worthy
art thou, O Lord, our God, to receive glory and honor, and power: * for thou
hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are, and were created. //
Salvation to our God that sitteth upon the throne, * and to the Lamb, Alleluia!
Matins
The Psalms Appointed
21 & 23
The Readings
II Sam 1:19-27
& John 20:24-31
The Antiphon for the Benedictus
I
am the good Shepherd, and I feed my sheep; * and I lay down my life for my
sheep, Alleluia!
Holy
Communion
The Introit Psalm
120. Ad Dominum.
WHEN I was in trouble, I called
upon the LORD, * and he heard me.
2 Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, * and from a deceitful tongue.
3 What reward shall be given or done unto thee, thou false
tongue? * even mighty and sharp arrows, with hot burning coals.
4 Woe is me, that I am constrained to dwell
with Meshech, * and to have my habitation among the tents of Kedar!
5 My soul hath long dwelt among them * that are enemies unto
peace.
6 I labour for peace; but when I speak unto them thereof, *
they make them ready to battle.
The Collect.
ALMIGHTY God, who hast given thine only Son to be unto us both a
sacrifice for sin, and also an ensample of godly life; Give us grace that we
may always most thankfully receive that his inestimable benefit, and also daily
endeavour ourselves to follow the blessed steps of his most holy life; through
the same* Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
The Epistle. 1 St. Pet. ii. 19.
THIS is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure
grief, suffering wrongfully. For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for
your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do. well, and suffer
for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God. For even hereunto
were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example,
that ye should follow his steps: who did no sin, neither was guile found in his
mouth: who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he
threatened not: but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously: who his
own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to
sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. For ye
were as sheep going astray: but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop
of your souls.
The Gradual
Alleluia! Alleluia! O GOD, thou art my God; * early
will I seek thee. Alleluia!
2 My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh also longeth after
thee, * in a barren and dry land where no water is. Alleluia!
3 Thus have I looked for thee in the
sanctuary, * that I might behold thy power and glory. Alleluia!
4 For thy loving-kindness is better than the life itself: *
my lips shall praise thee. Alleluia!
The Gospel. St. John x. 11.
JESUS said, I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his
life for the sheep. But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own
the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth:
and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep. The hireling fleeth,
because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep. I am the good
shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine. As the Father knoweth me,
even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep. And other
sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they
shall hear my voice; and there shall be one flock, and one shepherd.
2nd Evensong
The Psalms Appointed
116, 117
The Readings
Ezek
34:11-16,30-31 & John 10:1-11
The Antiphon for the Magnificat
I
am the Shepherd of the sheep; I am the Way and the Truth: * I am the good
Shepherd, and I know my sheep, and am known of mine, Alleluia! Alleluia!
Third
Wednesday of Easter
Holy
Communion
The Epistle 1 Peter i. 18-25.
Dearly beloved, Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not
redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain
conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious
blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: Who verily was
foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last
times for you, Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead,
and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God. Seeing ye have
purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love
of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of
God, which liveth and abideth for ever. For all flesh is as grass, and all the
glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower
thereof falleth away: But the word of the Lord endureth for ever.
The Gospel Luke xxiv. 1-12.
At that time, upon the first day of the week, very
early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which
they had prepared, and certain others with them. And they found the stone
rolled away from the sepulchre. And they entered in, and found not the body of
the Lord Jesus. And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed thereabout,
behold, two men stood by them in shining garments: And as they were afraid, and
bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the
living among the dead? He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto
you when he was yet in Galilee, Saying, The Son of man must be delivered into
the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again. And
they remembered his words, And returned from the sepulchre, and told all these
things unto the eleven, and to all the rest. It was Mary Magdalene, and Joanna,
and Mary the mother of James, and other women that were with them, which told
these things unto the apostles. And their words seemed to them as idle tales,
and they believed them not. Then arose Peter, and ran unto the sepulchre; and
stooping down, he beheld the linen clothes laid by themselves, and departed,
wondering in himself at that which was come to pass.
Third
Friday of Easter
Holy Communion
The Epistle Romans v. 18-21.
Brethren, as by the offence of one judgment came upon
all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came
upon all men unto justification of life. For as by one man’s disobedience many were
made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. Moreover
the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace
did much more abound: That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace
reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
The Gospel Matt ix. 14-17.
At that time came to him the disciples of John,
saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast oft, but thy disciples fast not? And
Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as
the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall
be taken from them, and then shall they fast. No man putteth a piece of new
cloth unto an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it up taketh from
the garment, and the rent is made worse. Neither do men put new wine into old
bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles
perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.
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