Of a Monastic
Antiphons
for the Psalms at Matins and Evensong
If any man will come after me, let him deny
himself, * and take up his cross daily, and follow me.
Watch ye therefore, and pray always, * that ye
may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and
to stand before the Son of man.
Now Peter and John went up together * into the
temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour.
On the morrow, as they went on their journey, and
drew nigh unto the city, * Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the
sixth hour:
And it was the third hour,* and they crucified him.
The
Collect.
O GOD, by whose grace the blessed ____,
enkindled with the fire of thy love, became a burning and a shining light in
thy Church: Grant that we may be inflamed with the same spirit of discipline
and love, and ever walk before thee as children of light; through Jesus Christ
our Lord. Amen.
The
Epistle. Philippians 3:7-15.
HOWBEIT what things were gain to me, these have
I counted loss for Christ. Yea verily, and I count all things to be loss for
the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I suffer the
loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may gain Christ, and be
found in him, not having a righteousness of mine own, even that which is of the
law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is of
God by faith: that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the
fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed unto his death; if by any
means I may attain unto the resurrection of the dead. Not that I have already obtained,
or am already made perfect: but I press on, if so be that I
may apprehend that for which also I was
apprehended by Christ Jesus. Brethren, I count not myself yet to have
apprehended: but one thing I do, forgetting the things which are behind, and
stretching forward to the things which are before, I press on toward the goal unto
the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Let us therefore, as many
as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in anything ye are otherwise minded, even
this shall God reveal unto you.
The
Gospel. St. Luke 12:22-37.
JESUS said unto his disciples, Therefore I say
unto you,be not anxious for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body,
what ye shall put on. The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment.
Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have
storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much
more are ye better than the fowls? And which of
you by being anxious can add a cubit to his span of life? If ye then be not
able to do that which is least, why are ye anxious for the rest? Consider the lilies
how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that
Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. If then God so
clothe the grass, which is to day in the field, and to morrow is cast into the
oven; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith? And seek not ye
what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of anxious mind. For
all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father
knoweth that ye have need of these things. But rather seek ye the kingdom of
God; and all
these things shall be added unto you. Fear not,
little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a
treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither
moth corrupteth. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Let
your loins be girded about, and your lamps burning; and ye yourselves like unto
men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he
cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately. Blessed are those
servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto
you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will
come forth and serve them.
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