upon the Cherubims. As. Glory. See. THIRD NOCTurn. Ps. xix. Ant. The Angel Gabriel. and the rest, as p. 14. The Lesson of the Holy Gospel according to S. Matthew. The Lesson of the Holy Gospel is always placed before the first Lesson of the Homily. Lesson VII. Chap. xxi. AT that time: 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 that which follows. A Homily from divers sources. From the Breviary of [Sarum] Aberdeen. Lesson VIII. GO into the village over against you. For it was against the Apostles, nor did it desire to take the yoke of doctrine. These teachers thus sent signify those whom He appointed to pass through, in preaching the Gospel, the ignorant and rude places of the whole earth, which were, so to speak, the bulwarks of a village set against them. And straightway ye shall find an ass tied and a colt with her: loose them and bring them unto Me. When they went out into the world the preachers found the colt of the nations fast guarded with bonds, for every one was bound with the chains of his own sins. But not only the Jewish people, for all have sinned and come short of the glory of GOD. Ry. Hear the Word of the LORD, ye nations, and proclaim it in the ends of the earth: * and say to the islands that are afar off: The LORD is at y. Publish it, proclaim, and Lesson IX. OR the she-ass which was under the yoke, and tamed, setteth forth the Synagogue, which had been brought under the LORD's yoke. But the foal of the ass, wanton and free, sheweth the Gentile nations. Whereon never man sat: because no teacher of things reasonable had as yet persuaded the Gentile nations to Bethphage, which is by interpreta-hand. tion House of the Cheek, or of the say to the earth. And say. Cheek bone, and which was a small village pertaining to the priests, was a type of Confession: it was situated on the Mount of Olives, where there is the light of knowledge, and rest from labour and from woe. Then sent He two disciples. Those two disciples, sent to bring the beasts to the LORD, may not inaptly be taken to set forth two kind of preachers, whereof the one was sent unto the Gentiles, the other unto the circum-receive the bridle of correction, wherecision. They were mostly sent out by twos, either to set forth knowledge of the truth, and pureness of deed; or, that the twin mystery, to wit of the love of GoD and of our neighbour, might be proclaimed to all the earth. by their tongues might be kept from evil, and they might be guided in the narrow way of life. A man may sit upon this beast, when by the use of reason he keepeth under and correcteth his own foolishness. Ry. Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise up to David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and righteousness in the earth. * And this is His Name whereby He shall be called, The LORD our Righteousness. V. In His days Judah shall be sayed, and Israel shall dwell safely. And. y. Glory. The LORD. From this Sunday till the Nativity of the LORD, and from Septuagesima Sunday till Easter, the ninth Ry. is said on Sunday, and Te Deum is said only on Festivals. MONDAY. Inv. The King, the LORD that is to come, as p. 4. Ps. Venite p. 3. Hymn. Verbum supernum, as p. 4. Of Isaiah the Prophet. WASH you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they Ishall be as wool. Ry. Receive the Word, O Virgin Mary, which is sent thee from the LORD by the Angel: thou shalt conceive and bring forth Him Who is GOD and Man,* that thou mayst be called blessed among all women. Y. For thou shalt bear the SON, and suffer no detriment of thy virginity, thou shalt be an ever-spotless mother. That. Lesson II. IF ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: but if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it. How is the faithful city become an harlot ! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers. Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water: thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: THEREFORE saith the LORD, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies and I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin: and I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city. Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness. And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed. * Ry. There shall no stranger pass through Jerusalem any more. For in that day the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, saith the LORD. Y. GOD shall come from Lebanon, and the Holy One from the shady and thick mountain. For. Glory. For. To-day is said the Office for the Dead. TUESDAY. Of Isaiah the Prophet. Lesson I. Chap. ii. THE word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the GoD of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. Rz. O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit. * The day of the LORD is near to come. y. Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation. The. Lesson II. the LORD your God, to visit you in Of Isaiah the Prophet. FOR, behold, the LORD, the LORD of AND he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD. Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people, the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please them-AND the people shall be oppressed, selves in the children of strangers. * Ry. Let the mountains break forth with joy, and the hills with righteousness: for the LORD, the Light of the world, cometh with power. y. Out of Sion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jeru salem. For. Lesson III. THEIR land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots: their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made: and the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not. * R. CHRIST our King shall come, Whom John foretold as the Lamb that was to come. y. At Whom kings shall shut their mouths, unto Whom the Gentiles shall pray. Whom. Lesson II. every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable. When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand: in that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people. R. Long before prophesied Ezekiel: I saw a closed gate: lo, GoD went forth thence before all ages for the salvation of the world: * and it was shut again, signifying the Virgin, who, after bearing, abode a virgin. y. The gate which thou sawest, the LORD alone shall pass through it. Ry. Behold, from the south I come, And. Lesson III. FOR Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory. The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves. Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him : for the reward of his hands shall be given him. Ry. Behold, the days come (p. iii.) THURSDAY. Of Isaiah the Prophet. Lesson I. Chap. iv. AND in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach. In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel. And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem. Ry. Receive the word (p. iv.) Lesson II. Chap. v. NOW will I sing to my well-beloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My well-beloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: and he fenced it, and gathered out the AND now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down: and I will lay it waste : it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briars and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry. Ry. The Angel Gabriel (p. ii.) FRIDAY. Of Isaiah the Prophet. Lesson I. Chap. vi. IN the year that King Uzziah died I saw also the LORD sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: stones thereof, and planted it with AND the posts of the door moved at the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone ; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts. Then flew one of the seraphims unto | anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the me, having a live coal in his hand, son of Remaliah. Because Syria, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar: and he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged. Ry. We look (p. ii.) Lesson III. ALSO I heard the voice of the LORD, who will go for us? Then said 1, Here am I; send me. And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not. Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed. saying, Whom shall I send, and Ry. I beseech Thee (p. ii.) Of Isaiah the Prophet. AND it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it. And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind. Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shear-jashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field. Ry. Behold, a Virgin (p. iii.) Lesson II. AND say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be faint-hearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying, Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeal. Ry. Hear the word (p. iii.) Lesson III. THUS saith the LORD GOD, It shall to pass. For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head' of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people. And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established. Moreover the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying, Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy GOD; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above. But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD. And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you not stand, neither shall it come to weary men, but will ye weary my GoD also? Therefore the LORD himself shall give you a sign: Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good. Ry. Behold, the days come (p. iii.) SECOND SUNDAY IN ADVENT. IN THE FIRST NOCTURN, out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: and the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge |