Proper of the Seasons. MATINS. FIRST SUNDAY IN ADVENT. Inv. The King, the LORD that is to come, as p. 4. Hymn. Verbum supernum, as p. 4. IN THE FIRST NOCTURN. Ant. Behold, a King. Ps. i. and the rest as in the Psalter, p. 5. Absolutions and Benedictions as at the beginning, before the Psalter. Here beginneth the Book of Isaiah the Prophet. Lesson I. Chap. i. THE vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib but Israel dot not know, my people doth not consider. But Thou, O LORD, have mercy upon us. Ry. Thanks be to God. And thus ends every Lesson unless it be otherwise signified. Ry. I beheld from afar, and saw the Glory of GoD, and a cloud covering the whole earth. * Go forth to meet Him, and say, * Tell us if Thou art He* That shall reign over Thy people Israel. y. All ye people, and all that dwell in the world, rich and poor, one with another. Go forth to meet Him, and say. y. Hear, O Thou Shepherd of Israel, Thou that leadest Joseph like a sheep. Tell us if Thou art He. Y. Lift up your heads, O ye | gates, and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors and the King of Glory shall come in. That shall reign over Thy people Israel. V. Glory be to the FATHER, and to the SoN, and to the HOLY GHOST. Then repeat, I beheld, down to the Y. All ye people. This Ry. is not said through the week, but in its place is said the first R7. for the ensuing Monday. Lesson II. AH sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evil-doers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward. ye be stricken any more? Why should whole head is sick, and the whole ye will revolt more and more: the heart faint. From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, been closed, neither bound up, neither and putrifying sores: they have not mollified with ointment. is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a be called the Son of GOD. Y. How lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a shall this be, seeing I know not besieged city. Except the LORD of a man? And the Angel answered hosts had left unto us a very small and said unto her. The HOLY remnant, we should have been as GHOST. Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah. Ry. The Angel Gabriel was sent to Mary, a Virgin espoused to Joseph: announcing to her the Word; and the Virgin was affrighted at the light. Fear not, Mary, thou hast found favour with GOD. Behold, thou shalt conceive and bear a Son, and He shall be called the Son of the Highest. y. The LORD GOD shall give unto Him the throne of His father David, and He shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever. Ry. Behold. V. Glory be to the FATHER, and to the SON, and to the HOLY GHOST. Behold. Glory &c. is thus said at the end of the last Response in each Nocturn, unless it be otherwise ordered. SECOND NOCTURN. Lesson V. FOR whose Advent it is the duty of every man to be prepared: lest it should come upon him unawares, while he is given up to the lusts of the flesh or to the cares of the world. For it is proved by every-day experience, that the vigour of the mind is impaired by satiety of drinking, and by abundance of food the strength of the heart is stupified; so that delights of this kind, hurtful both to the body and to the soul, detract from those true delights which are at GoD's right hand for ever more. * Ry. We look for the SAVIOUR, the LORD JESUS CHRIST, Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious Body, y. Let us live soberly, righteously, Ant. Rejoice and be glad. Ps. xvi. and godly in this present world, lookand the rest as p. 10. Lesson IV. A Sermon of S. Leo the Pope. WHEN the Saviour was instruct ing His disciples concerning the coming of the kingdom of GOD, and the end of the world and of time, and in the person of His Apostles was teaching His whole Church: Beware, saith He, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and revelling, and with the cares of this world. Which precept, beloved, more especially pertains to ourselves, to whom the day is announced, which, though the time of its coming be unknown, is certainly near at hand. ing for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great GOD. Ry. Who. Lesson VI. FOR although the body could know no sin without the soul, and receives the power of sinning thence, whence also it receives its power of motion, it is the part of the soul to determine what is convenient and what is inconvenient in worldly enjoyments, so that by keeping aloof from them for a season, it may have the more leisure for Divine wisdom; and being at rest from all noise of earthly care, may give itself up to holy meditation, and to those delights which are to endure for ever. * Ry. I beseech Thee, O LORD, send Ry. Hail, full of grace, the LORD Him Whom Thou wilt send, behold is with thee, * the HOLY GHOST as Thou hast promised, * come, see shall come upon thee, and the power the affliction of Thy people, and set of the Highest shall overshadow us free. Y. Hear, O Thou Shepthee; therefore, also, that Holy Thing herd of Israel, Thou that leadest Jowhich shall be born of thee, shall seph like a sheep, Thou that sittest |
