may succeed in their desires, make them ask those things that are agreeable to thee. Thro'.

The Epistle. 1 Cor. x. 6. 13.

Brethren: Let us not covet evil things, as they also coveted. Neither become ye idolaters, as some of them: as it is written: "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play." Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and there fell in one day three-and-twenty thousand. Neither let us tempt Christ; as some of them tempted, and perished by the serpents. Neither do you murmur; as some of them murmured, and were destroyed by the destroyer. Now all these things happened to them in figure; and they are written for our correction, upon whom the ends of the world are coine. Wherefore let him that thinketh himself to stand, take heed lest he fall. Let no temptation take hold on you, but such as is human. And God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that which you are able: but will make also with temptation issue, that you may be able to bear it.

At that time: When he drew near Jerusalem, seeing the city, he wept over it, saying: If thou also hadst known, and that in this thy day, the things that are for thy peace: but now they are hidden from thy eyes. For the days shall come upon thee and thy enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and straiten thee on every side, and beat thee flat to the ground, and thy children who are in thee: and they shall not leave in thee a stone upon a stone: because thou hast not known the time of thy visitation. And entering into the temple, he began to cast out them that sold therein, and them that bought.

Saying to them: It is written; " My house is the house of prayer: but you have made it a den of thieves." And he was teaching daily in the temple.

The tenth Sunday after Pentecost.

The Collect.

O GOD, who chiefly manifestest thy Almighty power in pardoning and shewing mercy, increase thy goodness towards us: that having recourse to thy promises, we may be partakers of thy heavenly blessings. Thro'.

The Epistle. 1 Cor. xii. 2. 11.

Brethren: You know that, when you were heathens, you went to dumb idols, according as you were led. Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man, speaking by the spirit of God, saith anathema to Jesus. And no man can say the Lord Jesus, but by the Holy Ghost. Now there are diversities of graces, but the same spirit. And there are diversities of ministers, but the same Lord. And there are diversities of operations, but the same God who worketh all in all, But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man unto profit. To one indeed, by the Spirit, is given the word of wisdom and to another, the word of knowledge, according to the same spirit: to another, faith in the same spirit : to another, the grace of healing in one spirit: to another, the working of miracles: to another, prophecy to another, the discerning of spirits: to another, diverse kinds of tongues: to another, interpretation of speeches. But in all these things one and the same spirit worketh, dividing to every one according as he will.

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The Gospel. Luke xviii. 9. 14.

At that time: Jesus spoke this parable to some who trusted in themselves as just, and despised others. Two men went up into the temple to pray the one was a Pharisee, and the other a Publican. The 'Pharisee standing, prayed thus within himself: O God, I give thee thanks that I am not as the rest of men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, as also is this publican. I fast twice in the week I give tithes of all that I possess. And the publican standing afar off would not so much as lift up his eyes towards heaven: but struck his breast, saying: O God, be merciful to me a sinner. I say to you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: because every one that exalteth himself, shall be humbled; and he thrat humbleth himself, shall be exalted.

"The eleventh Sunday after Pentecost.
The Collect.

O ALMIGHTY and eternal God, who, in the abundance of thy goodness, exceedest both the merits and requests of thy suppliants: pour forth thy mercy upon us and both pardon what our conscience dreadeth, and grant such blessings as we dare not presume to ask. Thro'.

The Epistle. 1 Cor. xv. >1.10.

Brethren: I make known unto you the 'gospel which I preached to you, which also you have received, and wherein you stand, by which also you are saved; if you hold fast after what manner I preached to you, unless you have believed in vain.

For 1 delivered unto you first of all, which I also received: how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures: and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: and that he was seen

by Cephas; and after that by the eleven. Then was he seen by more than five hundred brethren at once of whom many remain until this present, and some are fallen asleep. After that he was seen by James, then by all the apostles; and last of all, he was seen also by me, as by one born out of due time. For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am; and his grace in me hath not been void.

The Gospel. Mark vii. 31. 37.

At that time: Jesus going out of the coast of Tyre, he came by Sidon to the sea of Galilee through the midst of the coast of Decapolis. And they bring to him one that was deaf and dumb; and they besought him to lay his hand upon him. And taking him aside from the multitude, he put his fingers into his ears, and spitting, he touched his tongue: and looking up to heaven, he groaned, and said to him: Ephphetha, that is, Be opened. And immediately his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spoke right. And he charged them that they should tell no man. But the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal did they publish it. And so much the more did they wonder, saying: He hath done all things well; he hath made both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.

The twelfth Sunday after Pentecost.

The Collect.

O ALMIGHTY and merciful God, from whose gift it proceedeth that thy people worthily serve thee; grant, we beseech thee, that we may run

on, without stumbling, to the obtaining the effects of thy promises. Thro'.

The Epistle. 2 Cor. iii. 4. 9.

Brethren: We have confidence through Christ towards God. Not that we are sufficient to think any thing of ourselves, as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God. Who also hath made us fit ministers of the New Testament: not in the letter, but in the spirit: for the letter killeth : but the spirit giveth life. Now if the ministration of death, engraven with letters upon stones, was so glorious, that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses, for the glory of his countenance, which is done away: how shall not the ministration of the Spirit be rather in glory? For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more aboundeth the ministration of justice in glory.

The Gospel. Luke x. 23. 37.

At that time: Jesus said to his disciples: Blessed are the eyes that see the things which you see. For I say to you, that many prophets and kings have desired to see the things that you see, and have not seen them; and to hear the things that you hear, and have not heard them. And behold a certain lawyer stood up, tempting him; and saying: Master, what must I do to possess eternal life? But he said to him: What is written in the law? how readest thou? He answering, said: "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind: and thy neighbour as thyself." And he said to him: Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live. But he, willing to justify himself, said to Jesus: and who is my neighbour? But Jesus answering, said: A certain man went