Fourth Sunday of Advent

The following is taken from:

• The Book of Common Prayer (1962), Anglican Church of Canada, Anglican Book Centre, Toronto © The General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada, 1962, Used without permission.
• The English Gradual: Part II - The Proper, Edited by Francis Burgess, originally produced by the Plainchant and Mediaeval Music Society, Royal School of Church Music, Dorking.
• The English Hymnal (1906), Church of England, Oxford University Press.

Antiphon: Psalm 106 Remember us, O Lord, with the favour that thou bearest unto thy people; O visit us with thy salvation: that we, beholding the felicity of thy chosen, may rejoice in the gladness of thy people; and may glory with thine inheritance.

Verse: Ibid We have sinned with our fathers: we have done amiss and dealt wickedly.

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.

Repeat the Antiphon Remember us, O Lord, ...

The English Gradual: Part II - The Proper, Pages 7-8

Collect for Advent IV

Raise up, we beseech thee, O Lord, thy power, and come among us, and with great might succour us; that whereas, through our sins and wickedness, we are sore let and hindered in running the race that is set before us, thy bountiful grace and mercy may speedily help and deliver us; who with the Father and the Holy Spirit livest and reignest, one God, world without end. Amen.

Collect for Advent I

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; through him who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, now and ever. Amen.

This Collect is to be repeated every day after the other Collects in Advent, until Christmas Eve.

The Book of Common Prayer (1962), Page 102 and 95

Rejoice in the Lord alway, and again I say, Rejoice. Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand. In nothing be anxious: but in every thing, by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

Philippians 4:4-7 NIV KJV NRSV NASB RSV NKJV ESV

The Book of Common Prayer (1962), Page 102

Antiphon: Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness

Be not wroth very sore, O Lord, neither remember iniquity forever: thy holy cities are a wilderness, Sion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation: our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee. Isaiah 64.9-11a

Repeat the Antiphon Drop down, ye heavens,...

We have sinned, and are as an unclean thing, and we all do fade as a leaf: our iniquities, like the wind have taken us away; thou hast hid thy face from us: and has consumed us, because of our iniquities. Isaiah 64.6-7

Repeat the Antiphon Drop down, ye heavens,...

Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen; that ye may know me and believe me: I, even I, am the Lord, and beside me there is no Savior: and there is none that can deliver out of my hand. Isaiah 43.10-13

Repeat the Antiphon Drop down, ye heavens,...

Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, my salvation shall not tarry; I have blotted out as a thick cloud thy transgressions: fear not for I will save thee: for I am the Lord thy God, the holy one of Israel thy Redeemer. Isaiah 46.13,44.22

Repeat the Antiphon Drop down, ye heavens,...

English Hymnal (1906)

Psalm 145 The Lord is nigh unto all them that cull upon him: yea,all such as call upon him faithfully. My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord: and let all flesh give thanks unto his holy Name.

Alleluia. Alleluia. Psalm 85.2 Come, O Lord, and tarry not: forgive the misdeeds of thy people. Alleluia.

The English Gradual: Part II - The Proper, Pages 7-8

This is the witness of John, when the Jews sent Priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou? And he confessed, and denied not; and he confessed, I am not the Christ. And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elijah? And he said, I am not. Art thou the Prophet? And he answered, No. Then said they unto him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself? He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Isaiah. And they which were sent were of the Pharisees. And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet? John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not: he it is who cometh after me, whose shoe’s latchet I am not worthy to unloose. These things were done in Bethany beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing. The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.

John 1:19-29 NIV KJV NRSV NASB RSV NKJV ESV

The Book of Common Prayer (1962), Pages 102-103

Psalm 85.1-2 O Lord, thou art become gracious unto thy land; thou hast turned away the captivity of Jacob: thou hast forgiven the offence of thy people.

The English Gradual: Part II - The Proper, Pages 5-6

Isaiah 35 Say to them that are of a fearful heart: Be strong, fear not; behold, your God will come and save you.

The English Gradual: Part II - The Proper, Pages 5-6

Morning Prayer

After the First Lesson shall be sung or said the Hymn Te Deum Laudamus. But the Canticle Benedicite, Omnia Opera is suitable of use in Advent, in Lent, on Ember Days (except those in Whitsun Week), on Rogation Days, and when the third chapter of Daniel is read as the First Lesson.

Evening Prayer

For the Ferial Days

The Book of Common Prayer (1962), Pages xvi, xvii, l and 7