in us lusteth to envy? But he giveth | crieth: and the cries of them which more grace wherefore he saith, GOD have reaped are entered into the ears resisteth the proud, but giveth grace of the LORD of sabaoth. Ye have lived unto the humble. Submit yourselves in pleasure on the earth, and been therefore to GOD. Resist the devil, wanton; ye have nourished your and he will flee from you. Draw nigh hearts, as in a day of slaughter. Ye to GOD, and He will draw nigh to you. have condemned and killed the just; Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and and he doth not resist you. purify your hearts, ye double-minded. Ry. I will sing. p. ccx. Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. BE patient therefore, brethren, unto

Humble yourselves in the sight of the
LORD, and he shall lift you up.
Ry. With my. with Glory. p. ccix.
Lesson III.

Lesson II.

the coming of the LORD. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the LORD draweth nigh. Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door. Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the LORD, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience. Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the LORD; that the LORD is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.

SPEAK not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another? Go to now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow, we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain; whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the LORD will, we shall BUT above all things, my brethren, live, and do this, or that.

Te Deum. p. 15.

SATURDAY.

Of the Epistle of S. James the Apostle.
Lesson I. Chap. v.

Ry. It is a good.

p. ccx. Lesson III.

swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation. Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merGo to now, ye rich men, weep and ry? let him sing psalms. Is any sick howl for your miseries that shall among you? let him call for the elders come upon you. Your riches are cor- of the church; and let them pray over rupted, and your garments are moth-him, anointing him with oil in the eaten. Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. Behold the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud,

name of the LORD. And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the LORD shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed.

Te Deum. p. 15.

FIFTH SUNDAY AFTER EASTER.

I revealed, that not unto themselves, Inv. and Hymn, &c., as in Psalter, p. 5. but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the

FIRST NOCTURN.

Here beginneth the 1st Epistle of S. Gospel unto you with the HOLY GHOST

Peter the Apostle.

Lesson I. Chap. i.

PETER,

sent down from heaven; which things
the angels desire to look into.
Ry. The waters. p. ccviii.

Lesson III.

WHEREFORE gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of JESUS CHRIST; as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance; but as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; because it is written, Be

an apostle of JESUS CHRIST, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, elect according to the foreknowledge of GOD the FATHER, through sanctification of the SPIRIT, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of JESUS CHRIST: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied. Blessed be the GOD and FATHER of our LORD JESUS CHRIST, which according to his abundant mercy, hath begotten us again unto a lively hope, by the resur-ye holy; for I am holy. And if ye rection of JESUS CHRIST from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time.

Ry. If I forget Thee. p. ccviii.
Lesson II.

WHEREIN ye greatly rejoice,
though now for a season (if need
be) ye are in heaviness through mani-
fold temptations; that the trial of
your faith, being much more precious
than of gold that perisheth, though it
be tried with fire, might be found unto
praise, and honour, and glory, at the
appearing of JESUS CHRIST: whom
having not seen, ye love; in whom,
though ye see him not, yet believing,
ye rejoice with joy unspeakable, and

call on the FATHER, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear: forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; but with the precious blood of CHRIST, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifested in these last times for you, who by him do believe in GOD, that raised him up from the dead, and gave Him glory that your faith and hope might be in GOD.

Ry. I will declare. p. ccix.

SECOND NOCTURN.

full of glory: receiving the end of your From the Book of S. Ambrose the

Bishop, on the faith of the
Resurrection.

Lesson IV.

INASMUCH as the wisdom of GOD

faith, even the salvation of your souls. Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: searching what, or could not die, and that which was what manner of time, the Spirit of not dead could not rise again, He CHRIST which was in them did signify, assumed flesh, which could die, in when it testified beforehand the suffer-order that whilst that dies which is ings of CHRIST, and the glory that wont so to do, that which had been should follow. Unto whom it was already dead should rise again. For

the Resurrection could not be, unless | rising on His own account. In Him by a man: for as by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. Therefore man rose again because man died; man was quickened again, but the quickener was GOD: then, man according to the flesh now, GoD over all. For now we no longer know CHRIST according to the flesh, but we hold to the grace of His flesh, in that we know that He is the first-fruits of them that sleep that He is the first-born from the dead. Ry. Praise the LORD. p. ccix.

Lesson V.

the world rose again: in Him the hea-
ven rose again: in Him the earth
rose again. For there shall be a new
heaven and a new earth. Resurrection
was needless for Him Whom the bonds
of death could not hold for although
He was dead according to His Man-
hood, yet He was free in the very grave.
Would you know how free?
become as a man that hath no
strength: free among the dead. And
well is He called free, Who was able
to raise Himself, according to that
which is written: Destroy this temple,
and in three days I will raise it up

I am

FURTHER, first-fruits are of the again. Well is He called free, Who

same kind and nature as the remaining fruits; and it is that these may have more abundant increase, that the firstling gifts are offered to

descended to ransom others.
Ry. Sing us. p. ccix.

THIRD NOCTURN.

to S. John.

GOD: a sacred gift, on behalf of all, Lesson of the Holy Gospel according and as it were, a sort of oblation of restored nature. Therefore CHRIST is the first-fruits of them that sleep. But is He the first-fruits of His own

that sleep, who, as though not liable
to death, are held in a sweet slumber,
or of all the dead? For as in Adam
all die, so also in CHRIST shall all be
made alive. Therefore, as the first-
fruits of death are in Adam, so also
the first-fruits of the resurrection in
CHRIST shall all rise again. But let
no one be hopeless, nor let any
righteous man grieve at that common
fellowship in the resurrection, when
he looks for some special fruit of holi-
ness. All shall indeed rise again, but
each, as saith the Apostle, in his own
order. The fruit of the Divine mercy
is common; the order of merit is
diverse.

Ry. With my whole. p. ccix.
Lesson VI.

WE note how deep a sacrilege it
is, to disbelieve the resurrection.
For if we are not to rise again, in that
case CHRIST died in vain, therefore
CHRIST did not rise again. For if He
did not rise for us, He certainly did not
rise at all: for He had no reason for

Lesson VII. Chap. xvi.

AT that time: JESUS said unto His

disciples: Verily, verily, I say unto you: Whatsoever ye shall ask the FATHER in My name, He will give it you. And that which follows.

A Homily of S. Augustine the Bishop.

Tract 102 on S. John.

Now we have to treat of those words

of the LORD: Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the FATHER in My name, He will give it you. It has been already said, in the previous part of this Sunday's discourse, on their account who ask for some things from the FATHER in CHRIST'S name, and do not receive them, that anything which is asked for against the interest of salvation, is not asked in the Saviour's Name. For

here He is to be taken as saying, when He saith, In My Name, not the mere sound of letters and syllables, but what the sound denotes, and what is rightly and truly understood by that sound.

Ry. I will sing. p. ccx.

Lesson VIII.

WHEREFORE, whoever holds an

ROGATION MONDAY.

If on this day occurs a feast of nine opinion concerning CHRIST, | lessons, its office is used with the which ought not to be held concerning 9th lesson of the following Homily. A the Only-begotten Son of GOD, does feast of three lessons is merely commemonot ask in His Name, even though he rated. should utter the word CHRIST in letters and syllables; because he asks in

the name of him of whom he thinks while he asks. But whosoever thinks

what ought to be thought concerning

Him, does ask in His Name, and receives what he asks, provided he does not ask at the risk of his own everlasting salvation; and he receives it when he ought to receive it. For some things are not refused, but are postponed, to be given at a fitting time. In this way, then, we are to understand His saying, He will give you that we may know by these words are denoted such benefits as properly belong to those who ask. For all the saints are heard, when asking for themselves; but they are not heard, asking for every one, either for their friends, or their enemies, or any other persons. For it is not said, generally, He will give, but He will give you.

Ry. It is a good thing. p. ccx.

Lesson IX.

Lesson of the Holy Gospel according to S. Luke.

Lesson I. Chap. xi.

AT that time: JESUS said unto His

disciples: Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go unto him at midnight, and say unto him, Friend, lend me three loaves? And that which follows.

A Homily of S. Ambrose the Bishop,
Book 7 on S. Luke.

Another part of the precept is, that prayer should be offered at all times, For thou seest that he who arose at not by day only, but by night also. midnight, asking for three loaves from his friend, and persisting in his resolve of asking, is not baulked of his desire. What are these three loaves, save the food of the Heavenly Mystery? If thou love the LORD thy GOD, thou shalt be able to obtain not thy wants alone, but for others also. For who can be more

our friend, than He who gave His Body for us?

Ry. Let them. p. ccx.

Lesson II.

IN this midnight David asked for the

HITHERTO, He saith, ye have asked nothing in My Name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. When He saith, Your joy shall be full, it is clearly not carnal, but spiritual joy; and when it shall be so great, that there shall be nothing loaves, and obtained them. He further to add to it, it will doubtless asked, when He said; At midnight will then be full. Whatever therefore is I rise to give thanks unto Thee. asked, which may have to do with Therefore He obtained these loaves, gaining this joy, must be asked in the which he sets before us to eat. He Name of CHRIST, if we understand the asks, when he says, Every night wash grace of GoD: if we pray for a truly happy I my bed with my tears. For he was life. For if anything else be asked, not afraid of rousing from sleep Him nothing is asked. Not because it is Whom he knows to be ever wakeful. not really something, but because what- And, therefore, mindful of the Scripever other thing is desired in com-tures, let us continue instant in prayer parison with so great a thing as this, is nothing.

Te Deum. p. 15.

night and day, and intreat pardon for our sins.

Ry. Sing, without Glory. p. ccxi.