THE BOOK OF
AND ADMINISTRATION OF
THE SACRAMENTS
AND OTHER RITES AND CEREMONIES OF
THE CHURCH
ACCORDING TO THE USE OF
THE ANGLICAN
CHURCH OF CANADA
TOGETHER WITH
THE PSALTER
AS IT IS APPOINTED TO BE SAID OR SUNG
IN CHURCHES
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ABSTINENCE AND SOLEMN
PRAYER
TO BE OBSERVED IN THE ANGLICAN
CHURCH OF CANADA
Major Fast Days: Ash Wednesday and Good Friday.
Days of Abstinence:
All the Fridays of the Year except Christmas Day and the Epiphany.
The Forty Days of Lent
Days of Solemn Prayer:
The Ember Days at the Four Seasons, being the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday after the Third Sunday in Advent, the First Sunday in Lent, the Day of Pentecost (Whitsunday) and Holy Cross Day (September 14).
The Rogation Days, being the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday before Holy Thursday, or the Ascension of our Lord.
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In reading any Collect ending with
the words through Jesus Christ
our Lord, the Priest may add
the ascription who liveth and reigneth
with tee and the Holy
Spirit, one God, world without end.
Advent Sunday is always the nearest
Sunday to the Feastof
St Andrew, whether before or after.
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THE FIRST SUNDAY IN ADVENT
BEING THE FOURTH SUNDAY
BEFORE CHRISTMAS DAY
ALMIGHTY God, give us
grace that we may
cast away the works of
darkness, and put
upon us the armour 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 and the Holy
Spirit, now
and ever. Amen.
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THE ADVENT EMBER DAYS
BEING THE WEDNESDAY FRIDAY AND
SATURDAY AFTER THE THIRD SUNDAY
IN ADVENT
On Ember Days the Collect, Epistle, and Gospel, page 210,
shall always be used first. The following Collect, Epistle, and
Gospel for PEACE IN THE WORLD may be used, with the Ember
Collect added, at a second Ember Day Service during the week;
and are also suitable for Advent and other weekdays for which
no special provision has been made in this Book
ALMIGHTY Lord and everlasting Father,
who wouldest have the kingdoms of the
world become the kingdom of thy Son Jesus
Christ: Bestow thy blessing, we beseech thee,
upon all who labour for peace and righteousness
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among the nations, that the day may be hastened
when war shall be no more, and thou shalt take
the nations for thine inheritance; through the
same Jesus christ our Lord. Amen.
THE EMBER DAYS
BEING THE WEDNESDAY FRIDAY AND
SATURDAY IN THE OCTAVE
OF PENTECOST
ALMIGHTY God, the giver of all good gifts,
who of thy divine providence hast appointed
divers Orders in thy Church: Give thy grace, we
THE EMBER DAYS
humbly beseech thee, to all those who are to be
called to any office and administration in the
same; and so replenish them with the truth of
thy doctrine, and endue them with innocency of
life, that they may faithfully serve before thee, to
the glory of thy great Name, and to the benefit of
thy holy Church; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
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IN THE TEMPLE
COMMONLY CALLED
THE PURIFICATION
OF SAINT MARY THE VIRGIN
ALMIGHTY and everliving God, we humbly
beseech thy Majesty, that, as thy only-be-
gotten Son was this day presented in the temple
in substance of our flesh, so we may be presented
unto thee with pure and clean hearts, by the same
thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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