Sunday of I Class, Semidouble

INTROIT

Ad te levavi (Psalm 25)

  Unto thee, O Lord, will I lift up my soul:
  My God, I have put my trust in thee, O let me not be confounded:
  Neither let my enemies triumph over me:
  For all they that hope in thee shall not be ashamed. §

(Psalm 25)  Shew me thy ways, O Lord:
And teach me thy paths.
Glory be ...
As it was ...

(Repeat to §.)
 

THE COLLECT

ALMIGHTY God, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life, in which thy Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty to judge both the quick and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal.

[Prayer Book Ending: Through him who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, now and ever. Amen.]

Long Ending: Through the same Jesus Christ thy Son, our Lord.  Who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end.  Amen.

¶ This Collect is to be repeated every day after the other Collects in Advent, until Christmas Day. [For an exposition of this Rubric

COLLECT 2  Of Saint Mary

O GOD, who didst vouchsafe that thy Word should be made flesh in the womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary at the message of an Angel: grant to us thy humble servants ; that we, believing her to be indeed the Mother of God, may by her intercession find favour in thy sight.

COLLECT 3  For the Church

WE beseech thee, O Lord, mercifully to hear the prayers of thy that being delivered from all adversities and all false doctrines, thy Church may serve thee in freedom and quietness.  Through the same Jesus Christ thy Son, our Lord.  Who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end.  Amen.

THE EPISTLE

Romans 13.8-14

OWE no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

GRADUAL AND ALLELUIA

  (Psalm 25)  For all they that look for thee
  Shall not be ashamed, O Lord.
  Make known to me thy ways, O Lord:
  And teach me thy paths.
   Alleluia.
  Alleluia.
  (Psalm 85)  Shew us thy mercy, O Lord:
And grant us thy salvation.
All:       Alleluia!
 

THE GOSPEL

St. Matthew 21.1-13

WHEN they drew nigh unto Jerusalem, and were come to Bethphage, unto the mount of Olives, then sent Jesus two disciples, saying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and straightway ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose them, and bring them unto me. And if any man say ought unto you, ye shall say, The Lord hath need of them; and straightway he will send them. All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass. And the disciples went, and did as Jesus commanded them, and brought the ass, and the colt, and put on them their clothes, and they set him thereon. And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way; others cut down branches from the trees, and strewed them in the way. And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name 'of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest. And when he was come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, Who is this? And the multitude said, This is Jesus the prophet of Nazareth of Galilee. And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money-changers, and the seats of them that sold doves, and said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.

The Creed is said on all Sundays through the year, whether occurring or anticipated, and also when its Office is postponed to the first unhindered day.  But it is not said on Ferias when the Mass of the preceding Sunday is merely resumed.

OFFERTORY

Psalm 25

Unto thee, O Lord, will I lift up my soul: my God, I have put my trust in thee, O let me not be confounded: neither let mine enemies triumph over me: for all they that hope in thee shall not be ashamed.

SECRET

Grant, we beseech thee, O Lord, that the effectual power of these thy holy mysteries may in such wise cleanse us from all our iniquities that we may in all purity attain unto him who is the author of the same, even Jesus Christ, thy Son, our Lord.  Who liveth and reigneth with thee.

SECRET 2  Of Saint Mary

We beseech thee, O Lord, stablish in our hearts the mysteries of thy true religion: that, as we do believe thy Son, conceived of a virgin, to be very God and very man, so by the power of his resurrection we may be found worthy to attain to everlasting felicity.  (Through the same.)

SECRET 3  For the Church

Defend, O Lord, we pray thee, us thy servants: that we cleaving fast to things heavenly, may faithfully serve thee both in body and soul.  Through.

The Preface of the Most Holy Trinity is said in this Mass.  Likewise it is said in Sunday Masses through the year, even when the Mass is anticipated on Saturday, provided there be no proper Preface ordered by the Rubrics; but it is not said on Ferias, nor when the Sunday Mass is resumed on a week day, for then is said the common Preface unless some Commemoration be made which requires a proper Preface.  But note that the Preface of the BVM is never said in Masses of the Season during Advent.

COMMUNION

Psalm 86

The Lord shall shew loving-kindness: and our land shall give her increase.

POSTCOMMUNION

Grant to us, O Lord, we beseech thee: so to wait for thy loving kindness in the midst of thy Temple, that in readiness of heart and mind we may hail the coming feast of our redemption.  Through.

POSTCOMMUNION 2  Of Saint Mary

We beseech thee, O Lord, pour thy grace into our hearts: that as we have known the incarnation of thy Son Jesus Christ by the message of an Angel; so by his cross and passion we may be brought to the glory of his resurrection.  (Through the same.)

POSTCOMMUNION 3  For the Church

Grant, we beseech thee, O Lord our God: that we whom thou hast made partakers of heavenly gladness, may by thee be defended from all earthly perils.  Through.

Then is said Let us bless the Lord, which shall always be done when the Gloria in excelsis is not appointed to be said; otherwise is said Depart in peace.

§ Through the year, if during the week Mass is to be said of the Feria, the Mass of the preceding Sunday is resumed unless there be a proper Mass.  And likewise, when the Rubrics order a Commemoration to be made of a Feria which has no proper Mass, the Collects of the preceding Sunday are used.

§ From the I Sunday in Advent to December 23 inclusive, when the Collects are assigned for the different seasons (to wit, those given above for the BVM, etc.) are ordered to be said, the second Collect will be of the BVM, and the third that for the Church, as given above, if the Latin Rubrics be followed.  But if the Prayer-Book Rubrics be followed, after the first week in Advent, the second Collect will of the I Sunday in Advent, and the third Collect that of the BVM.  However, in Masses of the BVM or in those in which she is commemorated, and likewise in a Votive Mass of All Saints, in place of the Collect of the Holy Spirit, as given in the Votive Masses of the BVM.

§ In Advent, in Lent (From Ash Wednesday up to Saturday after Passion Sunday inclusive), on Ember Days, on Vigils, and on the days of the greater and the lesser Litanies, when Mass is said of any Festival or when a Votive Mass is said, a Commemoration of the Feria is always made unless it be a Conventual or a sung Mass in a place where there is also another Conventual or sung Mass of the Feria: otherwise the Feria must be commemorated even in a Conventual or a sung Mass.  The same rule is observed on all Vigils, a Double of the I Class is kept, or when a Votive Mass is celebrated for an important matter of public intention, in which case there is no Commemoration of the said Vigil.

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