QUINQUAGESIMA (FEBRUARY 15TH)
A Modern Byzantine Icon of Christ Healing the Blind Man ✠ THE DIVINE LITURGY OF ST. JAMES ACCORDING TO THE USE OF THE ANCIENT CHURCH OF THE WEST ✠ Quinquagesima ✠ THE PREPARATION ✠ INTROIT: Be thou my God and defender and a place of refuge, that thou mayest save me: for thou art my upholder, my refuge, and my Savior; and for thy holy Name’s sake be thou my leader and my sustainer. (Ps. 31) In thee, O Lord, have I put my trust, let me never be put to confusion: but rid me and deliver me in thy righteousness. Glory be. ✠ COLLECTS ✠ The Sunday Called Quinquagesima, Or The Sunday Next Before Lent: O LORD, who hast taught us that all our doings without charity are nothing worth; Send thy Holy Ghost and pour into our hearts that most excellent gift of charity, the very bond of peace and of all virtues, without which whosoever liveth is counted dead before thee. Grant this for thine only Son Jesus Christ's sake. Amen. FEAST OF ST. CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA O GOD, who didst strengthen thy bless...
