[Sections 2 and 3 form the respective bases to this and the following section, the letters and numbers marking the substitutions: the Hymns at Matins, Lauds, and Vespers are the only portion of the Services not given. Christmas Day is here supposed to fall on a Sunday. The Service for St. Thomas’s necessarily affects the Lauds and dependent Hours on the 21st: with this exception no notice is taken of Festivals, which materially alter the Advent Services as actually performed in the Latin Church. It is instructive to compare the Sunday Services as they here stand, with ours, which are formed from them.]
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Matins
| O Lord, open, &c. And our mouth, &c. O God, make speed, &c. O Lord, make haste, &c. Glory be, &c. Amen. Hallelujah. | |
| (a) Invitatory | Sundays 1 & 2. O come, let us worship: the Lord our King is coming. Sundays 3 & 4. O come, let us worship: the Lord is now at hand. |
| (b) Hymn | Verbum supernum prodiens, &c. |
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Nocturn I.
| (c) Antiphon | Behold, the mighty King: shall come with great power to save the nations. Hallelujah. |
| (d ) Antiphon | Strengthen ye: the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees; say to them of fearful heart, Behold your God will come and save you. Hallelujah. |
| (e) Antiphon | Be strong: fear not, behold your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompense: He will come and save you. |
| (f) Verse and Response | Out of Sion hath God appeared in perfect beauty. |
Sunday 1.
Lesson 1.
Isa. i. 1-3.
The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw con-
cerning 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 doth not know, my people doth not consider.
Response 1.
I look afar off, and behold, I see the power of God
coming, and a cloud covering the whole earth: Go ye
forth to meet him, and say: Tell us, whether Thou be He:
who shall rule over the people Israel.
All ye children of the earth and sons of men, the rich and
the poor together.
Go ye forth to meet him, and say: Tell us, whether Thou
be He: who shall rule over the people Israel.
Hear, O Thou Shepherd of Israel, Thou that leadest
Joseph like a sheep.
Tell us, whether Thou be He: who shall rule over the
people Israel.
Lift up your heads, O ye gates, and be ye lift up, ye ever-
lasting doors, and the King of glory shall come in.
Who shall rule over the people Israel.
Glory be to the Father, &c.
I look afar off, and behold, I see the power of
God, &c.
Lesson 2.
Isa. i. 4-6.
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.
Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more
and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart
faint.
From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no
soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying
sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither
mollified with ointment.
Response 2.
I saw in the night visions, and behold, One like unto the
Son of man come with the clouds of heaven, and there
was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom:
that all people, nations, and languages should serve
Him.
His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall
not pass away, and His kingdom that which shall not be
destroyed.
That all people, nations, &c.
Lesson 3.
Isa. i. 7-9.
Your country *is* desolate, your cities are burned with fire:
your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is
desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vine-
yard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged
city.
Except the Lord of hosts had left unto us a very small
remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should
have been like unto Gomorrah.