QUADRAGESIMA SUNDAY, OR THE SUNDAY OF THE GREAT TRIODION (FEB 22ND)
A Repaired Ancient Insular Icon of the Tax Collector and the Pharisee ✠ TRIODION SUNDAY ✠ Dominica Quadragesimae The Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee and the Great Triodion ✠ INTROIT ✠ Psalm 51:1–3, 10–12 Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: * according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, * and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions: * and my sin is ever before me. Create in me a clean heart, O God; * and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy presence; * and take not thy holy Spirit from me. O give me the comfort of thy help again; * and stablish me with thy free Spirit. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness. ✠ COLLECT ✠ O Lord God, who resistest the proud and givest grace unto the hum...
