SECOND SUNDAY IN LENT (MARCH 8TH)

The Healing of the Syro-Phoenician Woman’s Daughter 

Liturgical Propers for the Liturgy of St. James of Jerusalem, According to the Use of the Ancient Church of the West

INTROIT

REMEMBER, O Lord, thy tender mercies, and thy loving-kindnesses, which have been ever of old: O let not our enemies triumph over us: deliver us, O God of Israel, out of all our troubles. 

Unto thee, O Lord, will I lift up my soul: O my God, I have put my trust in thee, O let me not be confounded. 

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.

COLLECTS

SECOND SUNDAY IN LENT

ALMIGHTY God, who seest that we have no power of ourselves to help ourselves: keep us both outwardly in our bodies and inwardly in our souls; that we may be defended from all adversities which may happen to the body and from all evil thoughts which may assault and hurt the soul. (Through.)

ST. CHAD OF LICHFIELD

O Almighty and everlasting God, who didst call Thy servant Chad to walk in the humility of Christ, to labor in the vineyards of Thy Church, and to shine as a light in the land of the English: Grant that we, following his lowliness and zeal, may be found faithful in our generation, and at the last be made partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Amen.

ST. GERASIMOS OF JORDAN

O God, who didst lead Thy servant Gerasimos through the desert places of this world, and didst make him a wellspring of holiness in the midst of barrenness: Grant that we, following his example, may with single heart forsake the vanities of this life and cleave unto Thee alone, through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Ghost, one God, world without end. Amen.

ST. CONON OF PERGA

O God, who didst strengthen thy servant Conon with simplicity of heart and steadfast faith and didst crown his labors with martyrdom: Grant that, through his intercession, we may walk in singleness of heart before thee and boldly confess thy holy Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Amen.

FEAST OF STS. PERPETUA AND FELICITY

O GOD, who among the manifold works of thine almighty power has bestowed even upon the weakness of women strength to win the victory of martyrdom: grant, we beseech thee, that we, who on this day recall the heavenly birth of blessed Perpetua and Felicity, thy martyrs, may so follow in their footsteps, that we may likewise attain unto the. Through.

THE LITURGY OF THE WORD

THE OLD TESTAMENT LESSON: Deuteronomy 23:19-24:7

Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury: Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it. When thou shalt vow a vow unto the LORD thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay it: for the LORD thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee. But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee. That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform; even a freewill offering, according as thou hast vowed unto the LORD thy God, which thou hast promised with thy mouth. When thou comest into thy neighbour’s vineyard, then thou mayest eat grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure; but thou shalt not put any in thy vessel. When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour, then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour’s standing corn. When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife. And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife; Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance. When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken. No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man’s life to pledge. If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you. 

Reader: The Word of the Lord! 

All: Thanks be to God! 

THE NEW TESTAMENT LESSON: 2 Timothy 1

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus, To Timothy, my dearly beloved son: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day; greatly desiring to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that I may be filled with joy; when I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also. Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands. For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God; who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began, but is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel: whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles. For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day. Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us.

This thou knowest, that all they which are in Asia be turned away from me; of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes. The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus; for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain: but, when he was in Rome, he sought me out very diligently, and found me. The Lord grant unto him that he may find mercy of the Lord in that day: and in how many things he ministered unto me at Ephesus, thou knowest very well.

Reader: The Word of the Lord! 

All: Thanks be to God! 

THE EPISTLE: I THESSALONIANS (4:1-8) 

BRETHREN: we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more. 

For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus. 

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: 

That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour; 

Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God: 

That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified. 

For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness. 

He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.

Reader: The Word of the Lord! 

All: Thanks be to God! 

PSALM 25:16-21 

TURN thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted. 

The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring thou me out of my distresses. 

Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.  

Consider mine enemies, for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred. 

O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee. 

Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.

THE GOSPEL: ST. MATTHEW (15:21-28) 

Deacon/Priest: The Holy Gospel according to St. Matthew, beginning in the fifteenth chapter, the twenty-first verse. +++

Reader: AT that time: Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon. And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil. 

But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us. 

But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel. 

Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me. 

But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs. 

And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table. 

Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.

Reader: The Gospel of the Lord! 

All: Praise be to Thee, Lord Christ! 

OFFERTORY

MY delight shall be in thy commandments which I have loved exceedingly: my hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved.

SECRET

WE BESEECH thee, O Lord, mercifully to have respect unto these our oblations: that the same may be profitable unto us for our increase in all godliness, and for the advancement of everlasting salvation. Through Jesus Christ our Lord, Who livest and reignest with Thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, ever One God, world without end. Amen.

COMMUNION

CONSIDER my meditation: hearken thou unto the voice of my calling, my King and my God: for unto thee will I make my prayer, O Lord.

POSTCOMMUNION

WE humbly beseech thee, Almighty God: that we whom thou dost vouchsafe to regenerate with thy holy sacraments may continually serve thee in all virtuous and godly living. Through Jesus Christ our Lord, Who livest and reignest with Thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, ever One God, world without end. Amen.