FIFTH SUNDAY AFTER PASCHA (ROGATION) (MAY 17TH)
✠ THE DIVINE LITURGY OF ST. JAMES ✠ ACCORDING TO THE USE OF THE ANCIENT CHURCH OF THE WEST ✠ FIFTH SUNDAY AFTER EASTER (ROGATION) ✠ ✠ THE PREPARATION ✠ INTROIT: Exaudi Consider, O Lord, and hear me, when I cry unto thee, alleluia: unto thee my heart hath said, Thy face, Lord have I sought; thy face, Lord, will I seek; O hide not thou thy face from thy servant, alleluia, alleluia. Ps. 27 The Lord is my light and my salvation: whom then shall I fear? Glory be. ✠ COLLECTS ✠ SUNDAY AFTER ASCENSION O GOD, the King of glory, who hast exalted thine only Son Jesus Christ with great triumph unto thy kingdom in heaven; We beseech thee, leave us not comfortless; but send to us thine Holy Ghost to comfort us and exalt us unto the same place whither our Savior Christ is gone before, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the same Holy Ghost, one God, world without end. Amen. THE FEAST OF STS. CYRIL AND METHODIUS ALMIGHTY GOD, Who didst enlighten the Slavic peoples throug...
