Friday 30th July, 2010
The Eighth Sunday After Trinity
Mattins
The Second Reading
Then shall be read in like manner1 the Second Lesson, taken out of the New Testament.
Find Acts 28:17-30 in the KJV, or read below.
Acts 28:17-30
(28v18) Who, when they had examined me, would have let
(28v19) But when the Jews spake against
(28v20) For this cause therefore have I called for you, to see
(28v21) And they said unto him, We neither received letters out of Judaea concerning thee, neither any of the brethren that came shewed or spake any harm of thee.
(28v22) But we desire to hear of thee what thou thinkest: for as concerning this sect, we know that every where it is spoken against.
(28v23) And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into
(28v24) And some believed the things which were spoken, and some believed not.
(28v25) And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed, after that Paul had spoken one word, Well spake the Holy Ghost by Esaias the prophet unto our fathers, (28v26) Saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive: (28v27) For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with
(28v28) Be it known therefore unto you, that the salvation of God is sent unto the Gentiles, and
(28v29) And when he had said these words, the Jews departed, and had great reasoning among themselves.
(28v30) And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him,
Benedictus
And after that, the Hymn following;2 except when that shall happen to be read in the Chapter for the day, or for the Gospel on Saint John Baptist's Day.3
Benedictus. St. Luke i. 68.
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Benedictus
BLESSED be
the Lord ˡ God of ˡ Israel : for he hath ˡ visited · and reˡdeemed his ˡ people;
2 And hath raised up a mighty salˡvation
ˡ for us : in the ˡ house of his ˡ servant ˡ David;
3 As he spake by the mouth of his ˡ holy
ˡ Prophets : which have been ˡ
since the ˡ world beˡgan;
4 That we should be saved ˡ from our ˡ enemies : and from the ˡ hand of ˡ all that ˡ hate us.
5 To perˡform the ˡ mercy promised ˡ to our
ˡ forefathers : and to reˡ member his ˡ holy ˡ Covenant;
Deut 7:6-8
6 To perform the oath which he sware to
our ˡ fore·father ˡ Abraham :
That ˡ he would ˡ give ˡ us,
Gen 15:1-6
Gen 17:1-8
7 That we being delivered out of the ˡ hand
of our ˡ enemies : might ˡ serve him withˡ out ˡ fear;
8 In holiness and ˡ
righteousness beˡfore him : all the ˡ days of ˡ our ˡ life.
9 And thou, Child, shalt be called the
ˡ Prophet of the ˡ Highest :
for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord ˡ to
preˡpare his ˡ ways;
Mal 3:1
Mal 4:5
10 To give knowledge of salvation ˡ unto his
ˡ people : for the reˡmission ˡ of their ˡ sins,
11 Through the tender mercy of ˡ our ˡ God :
whereby the day-spring ˡ from on ˡ high
Mal 4:2
2 Pet 1:19
hath ˡ visited us;
12 To give light to them that sit in
darkness, and in the ˡ shadow of ˡ death
Is 2:2
Mt 4:15-16
Ps 23:4 :
and to guide our feet ˡ into the ˡ way of
ˡ peace.
Glory be to the Father, and ˡ to the ˡ Son :
and ˡ to the ˡ Holy ˡ Ghost;
As it was in the beginning, is now, and ˡ ever ˡ shall be :
world without ˡ endˡ . Aˡmen.
Jubilate Deo
Or this Psalm, Jubilate Deo. Psalm c.
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Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625), New College Choir (Oxford) |
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BE joyful in the Lord, ˡ all ye ˡ lands : serve the Lord with gladness, and
come before his ˡ presence ˡ with a ˡ song.
2. Be ye sure that the Lord ˡ he is ˡ God
:
it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, ˡ and
the
ˡ sheep of his ˡ pasture.
3. O go your way into his gates with thanksgiving, and
into his ˡ courts with ˡ praise :
be thankful unto him, ˡ and speak ˡ good of his
ˡ Name.
4. For the Lord is gracious, his mercy is ˡ everˡlasting : and his truth
endureth from generˡation to ˡ geneˡration.
Glory be to the Father, and ˡ to the ˡ Son :
and ˡ to the ˡ Holy ˡ Ghost;
As it was in the beginning, is now, and ˡ ever ˡ shall be :
world without ˡ end. ˡ Aˡmen.
Footnotes
1 "Like manner". The Rubric for the first reading at Mattins runs:
Then shall be read distinctly with an audible voice the First Lesson, taken out of the Old Testament, as is appointed in the Calendar, except there be proper Lessons assigned for that day: He that readeth so standing and turning himself, as he may best be heard of all such as are present.
"Read in an audible voice" allows for ordinary spoken words, but includes the tradition of chanting the readings in a simple tone, which was ordered by the 1552 Book. "Audible" is a warning against using over-complicated chants that obscure rather than project the words.
The Reader is instructed to "turn himself" because worship is normally conducted facing the altar. When the congregation is addressed, the reader must turn round and face west, down the church.
The Reader is also instructed to announce the reading like this:
Note, That before every Lesson the Minister shall say, Here beginneth such a Chapter, or Verse of such a Chapter, of such a Book : And after every Lesson, Here endeth the First, or the Second Lesson.
2 "Hymn". The Benedictus is the Song of Zechariah, on the birth of his son John, later known as "the Baptist" (John was Jesus's cousin). The Benedictus acts as a summary of the gospel message, which is why it is placed immediately after the New Testament reading.
THE position of this Canticle makes its ritual meaning self-evident. It is a thanksgiving to Almighty God for His mercy as exhibited towards mankind in the Incarnation of our Lord, whereof the Gospel speaks, and in the foundation of the Church in His blood, as recorded in the Acts of the Holy Apostles. It is the last prophecy of the old Dispensation, and the first of the new: and furnishes a kind of key to the Evangelical interpretation of all prophecies under the one by which they are connected with the other.
3 "Except &c.". This recommendation was enforced by rubric in the 1552 Book, making the use of Psalm 100 Jubilate Deo a rarity.
The days on which the Jubilate must be used depend on which Calendar is employed. Working with the original 1662 Calendar, they are February 18th., June 17th., June 24th (St John the Baptist's day) and October 15th.
This website currently uses the 1871 Calendar, which comes with more recent editions of the Book of Common Prayer. In addition to being the Gospel reading at Holy Communion on June 24th (The Nativity Of St John The Baptist), the Benedictus is sung at Morning Prayer on March 25th (Annunciation), and at Evening Prayer on September 24th.
Psalm 100 Jubilate Deo is sung at Evening Prayer on the 19th day of every month.