THANKSGIVING.

As the best PREPARATION for Holy Communion is a HOLY LIFE, so the best THANKSGIVING after Holy Communion is a THANKFUL LIFE. Live as one would live who felt he had received a great blessing. Live as one who had been brought very near to God and to heaven; as one who had received great and precious gifts from God, and has given his whole heart and life to God in return. The memory of the holy and blessed Service you have taken part in ought to be a secret thought of happiness to you. It should come back to you often in the day, and fill you with a sense of peace and comfort. And this secret thought will help you to be gentle and loving and charitable in your conduct, so that men will be able to take knowledge of you that you have been with Jesus. It is a poor sort of thanksgiving just to go through some form of words, while there is no real thankfulness in the heart or in the life.

Yet when the heart is really thankful, it longs for words in which to speak its thanksgiving. And you will do well to use some special words of praise and thanksgiving at your Evening Prayers after Holy Communion.

For this purpose you can use any of the words given at the end of the Service on pages 90-94.

Another thanksgiving is added, specially fitted for use on Sunday Evening after Holy Communion.

A Thanksgiving after Holy Communion

O GOD, who hast in Thy great mercy permitted me to draw near this day to the blessed Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Thy dear Son; I give Thee hearty thanks and praise for this Thy goodness. Lord, I thank Thee: help Thou my unthankfulness. Teach me more and more to feel and know the richness and freedom of Thy love. Teach me more and more to prize and to long for this holy feast of heavenly Food. Give me an ever-thankful heart, that so I may live ever a life of thankfulness, serving Thee, not as a slave, but as a loving child, in the spirit of adoption, and as sharing in the glorious liberty of Thy children. Oh, keep me from falling back; lead me onward by Thy grace; and bring me at last to the unveiled presence of my Saviour in heaven, through the same Thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

THE COLLECTS,

EPISTLES, AND GOSPELS,

TO BE USED THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.

THE

COLLECTS, EPISTLES, AND GOSPELS

TO BE USED THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.

Note, that the Collect appointed for every Sunday, or for any Holy-day that hath a Vigil or Eve, shall be said at the Evening Service next before.

The First Sunday in Advent.

The Collect.
LMIGHTY God, give us grace

A
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 Majes-
ty to judge both the quick and
dead, we may rise to the life im-
mortal, through him who liveth
and reigneth with thee and the
Holy Ghost, now and ever. Amen.
This Collect is to be repeated every
day, with the other Collects in Ad-
vent, until Christmas-Eve.

The Epistle. Rom. 13. 8. WE no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Love worketh no ill to his neighbour; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand; let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. Let us walk honestly as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not

in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.

But

Christ,

and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof. The Gospel. St. Matth. 21. 1. W Jerusalem, and were come

WHEN they drew nigh unto

to Bethphage, unto the mount of Olives, then sent Jesus two disciples, saying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and straightway ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose them, and bring them unto me. And if any man say ought unto you, ye shall say, The Lord hath need of them; and straightway he will send them. All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was

spoken by the Prophet, saying, Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass. And the disciples went, and did as Jesus commanded them; and brought the ass, and the colt, and put on them their clothes, and they set him thereon. And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way; others cut down branches from the trees, and strawed them in the way. And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David; Blessed is he that cometh in the Name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest. And when he was come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, Who is this? And the multitude said, This is Jesus the Prophet of Nazareth of Galilee.