GENERAL CONFESSION.

WITH a true heart and sincere repentance, let us make humble confession of our unworthiness:

If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us;

If we confess our sins, God is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

I will arise and go to my Father, and say unto him, Father, I have sinned against Heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.

For the good that I would, I do not; but the evil which I would not, that I do.

God be merciful to me a sinner.

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.

Speak the word only, and thy servant shall be healed.

Enter not into judgment with thy servant, O Lord!
For in thy sight shall no man living be justified.

Hide thy face from my sins! and blot out all mine iniquities! The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit.

A broken and a contrite spirit, O God, thou wilt not despise.

THE LORD'S PRAYER.

Our Father, who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, As we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, But deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, For ever and ever. Amen.

THE COMMANDMENTS.

THOU shalt have no other gods before me.

Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any like. ness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.

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Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work; but the seventh is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.

Honor thy father and thy mother; that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

Thou shalt not kill.

Thou shalt not commit adultery.

Thou shalt not steal.

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor's.

HEAR also what our Saviour Christ saith:

The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God is one Lord: and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength.

This is the first commandment.

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And the second is like, namely,

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

There is none other commandment greater than these.

O Lord, Open thou our eyes!

And we shall behold wondrous things out of thy law!

O Lord, have mercy upon us!

And write all these thy commandments, we beseech thee, in our hearts.

BEATITUDES.

JESUS opened his mouth and taught them, saying:

Blessed are the poor in spirit;

For theirs is the kingdom of Heaven.

Blessed are they that mourn;

For they shall be comforted.

Blessed are the meek;

For they shall inherit the earth.

Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness;

For they shall be filled.

Blessed are the merciful;

For they shall obtain mercy.

Blessed are the pure in heart;

For they shall see God.

Blessed are the peacemakers;

For they shall be called the children of God.

Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake; For theirs is the kingdom of Heaven.

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Blessed are ye when men shall revile you, and persecute you, shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake ; Rejoice, and be exceeding glad for great is your reward in Heaven for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.

O Lord, touch our hearts,

That we may know the mysteries of the kingdom of Heaven!

SERVICES FOR THE CHRISTIAN YEAR.

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FIRST SUNDAY IN ADVENT.

COLLECT.

LMIGHTY God, give us grace that we may cast away

the works of darkness, and put upon us the armor 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 evermore. Amen.

PROPHECIES.

ISAIAH.

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.

many people shall

And go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of God; 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.

And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people, and they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks: nation shall not