THE 23RD SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY (NOV. 8TH)
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| Christ Teaches the Pharisees with the Denarius of Caesar |
✠ Missal Mass Propers for the Divine Liturgy of St. James of Jerusalem
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✠ The Introit — Dicit
Dominus ✠
Antiphon. Thus saith the Lord: I know the thoughts that I think toward you,
thoughts of peace and not of evil: ye shall call upon me, and I will hearken
unto you, and will turn away your captivity from all the nations.
Psalm. Lord, thou art become gracious unto thy land: thou hast turned away the
captivity of Jacob.
Antiphon. Thus saith the Lord: I know the thoughts that I think toward you,
thoughts of peace and not of evil: ye shall call upon me, and I will hearken
unto you, and will turn away your captivity from all the nations.
✠ The Collects ✠
The Collect of the Day
O GOD, our refuge and strength, who art the author of all godliness: Be
ready, we beseech thee, to hear the devout prayers of thy Church; and grant
that those things which we ask faithfully we may obtain effectually; through
Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
A Commemoration of St. Gabriel of
Georgia
O GOD, who didst adorn thy servant Gabriel of Georgia with zeal,
patience, and pastoral courage: Grant that we, strengthened by his prayers and
example, may confess the truth with humility and serve our neighbours with
steadfast love; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
A Commemoration of St. Raphael of
Brooklyn
O GOD, who didst raise up thy servant Raphael, Bishop of Brooklyn, to
gather the scattered sheep of thy flock and proclaim the unity of thy Holy
Church: Grant that, following his example, we may seek the lost, comfort the
sorrowful, and establish thy peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
A Commemoration of the Synaxis of the
Archangels
O LORD GOD of Hosts, who hast appointed Michael the Archangel and the
heavenly orders to serve thy glory, and who dost send Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel,
Salaphiel, Jegudiel, and Barachiel to accomplish thy will: Grant that thy holy
Angels may protect us, guide us in thy truth, and help us to serve thee with
purity and joy; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
✠ The Liturgy of the
Word ✠
The First Reading — 2 Kings 21–22
Chapter 21
Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and reigned fifty
and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Hephzibah.
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, after the
abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out before the children of
Israel.
For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had
destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king
of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord said, In
Jerusalem will I put my name. And he built altars for all the host of heaven in
the two courts of the house of the Lord. And he made his son pass through the
fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar
spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the Lord, to
provoke him to anger.
And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house, of
which the Lord said to David, and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in
Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put my name
for ever: neither will I make the feet of Israel move any more out of the land
which I gave their fathers; only if they will observe to do according to all
that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses
commanded them.
But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than
did the nations whom the Lord destroyed before the children of Israel.
And the Lord spake by his servants the prophets, saying, Because Manasseh
king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all
that the Amorites did, which were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin
with his idols: therefore thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Behold, I am
bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both
his ears shall tingle.
And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of
the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it,
and turning it upside down. And I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance,
and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey
and a spoil to all their enemies; because they have done that which was evil in
my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth
out of Egypt, even unto this day.
Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled
Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to
sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the Lord.
Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin
that he sinned, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings
of Judah? And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of
his own house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.
Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned
two years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Meshullemeth, the daughter of
Haruz of Jotbah. And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, as
his father Manasseh did. And he walked in all the way that his father walked
in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them: and he
forsook the Lord God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the Lord.
And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in his
own house. And the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against
king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.
Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, are they not written in
the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? And he was buried in his
sepulchre in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.
Chapter 22
Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty
and one years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jedidah, the daughter of
Adaiah of Boscath.
And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in
all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to
the left.
And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, that the king
sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house
of the Lord, saying, Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the
silver which is brought into the house of the Lord, which the keepers of the
door have gathered of the people: and let them deliver it into the hand of the
doers of the work, that have the oversight of the house of the Lord: and let
them give it to the doers of the work which is in the house of the Lord, to
repair the breaches of the house, unto carpenters, and builders, and masons,
and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house.
Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was
delivered into their hand, because they dealt faithfully.
And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe, I have found
the book of the law in the house of the Lord. And Hilkiah gave the book to
Shaphan, and he read it. And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought
the king word again, and said, Thy servants have gathered the money that was
found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of them that do the
work, that have the oversight of the house of the Lord. And Shaphan the scribe
shewed the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath delivered me a book. And
Shaphan read it before the king.
And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the book of the
law, that he rent his clothes. And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and
Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Michaiah, and Shaphan the
scribe, and Asahiah a servant of the king’s, saying, Go ye, enquire of the Lord
for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this
book that is found: for great is the wrath of the Lord that is kindled against
us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do
according unto all that which is written concerning us.
So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah,
went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son
of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college;)
and they communed with her.
And she said unto them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Tell the man
that sent you to me, Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will bring evil upon this
place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the words of the book which
the king of Judah hath read: because they have forsaken me, and have burned
incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works
of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and
shall not be quenched.
But to the king of Judah which sent you to enquire of the Lord, thus
shall ye say to him, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, As touching the words
which thou hast heard; because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled
thyself before the Lord, when thou heardest what I spake against this place,
and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a
curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee,
saith the Lord.
Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be
gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil
which I will bring upon this place. And they brought the king word again.
The Second Reading — Revelation 17–18
Chapter 17
And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and
talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment
of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: with whom the kings of the
earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been
made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a
woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having
seven heads and ten horns. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet
colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden
cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: and
upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery, Babylon The Great, The Mother Of
Harlots And Abominations Of The Earth.
And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the
blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great
admiration.
And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee
the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the
seven heads and ten horns.
The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the
bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall
wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of
the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven
mountains, on which the woman sitteth. And there are seven kings: five are
fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must
continue a short space. And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the
eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no
kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. These have
one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast. These shall
make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of
lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen,
and faithful.
And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore
sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues. And the ten
horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall
make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and
give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the
kings of the earth.
Chapter 18
And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having
great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. And he cried mightily
with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is
become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage
of every unclean and hateful bird.
For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication,
and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the
merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my
people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her
plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her
iniquities.
Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according
to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double. How much she
hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give
her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see
no sorrow.
Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and
famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God
who judgeth her.
And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived
deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see
the smoke of her burning, standing afar off for the fear of her torment,
saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour
is thy judgment come.
And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man
buyeth their merchandise any more: the merchandise of gold, and silver, and
precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and
scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner
vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble, and
cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and
fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and
slaves, and souls of men.
And the fruits that thy soul lusted after are departed from thee, and all
things which were dainty and goodly are departed from thee, and thou shalt find
them no more at all.
The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand
afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing, and saying, Alas,
alas that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet,
and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls! For in one hour so great
riches is come to nought.
And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as
many as trade by sea, stood afar off, and cried when they saw the smoke of her
burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city!
And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing,
saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships
in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God
hath avenged you on her.
And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it
into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be
thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters,
shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he
be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be
heard no more at all in thee; and the light of a candle shall shine no more at
all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no
more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by
thy sorceries were all nations deceived.
And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all
that were slain upon the earth.
The Epistle — Philippians 3:17–21
BRETHREN, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye
have us for an ensample. (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now
tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: whose
end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their
shame, who mind earthly things.) For our conversation is in heaven; from whence
also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: who shall change our vile
body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the
working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
✠ The Gradual ✠
It is thou, O Lord, that savest us from our enemies: and puttest them to
confusion that hate us.
V. We make our boast
of God all day long, and will praise thy Name for ever.
Alleluia, alleluia.
V. Out of the deep
have I called unto thee, O Lord: Lord, hear my voice.
Alleluia.
The Holy Gospel — St. Matthew 22:15–22
THEN went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in
his talk. And they sent out unto him their disciples with the Herodians,
saying, Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in
truth, neither carest thou for any man: for thou regardest not the person of
men. Tell us therefore, What thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto
Caesar, or not?
But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why tempt ye me, ye
hypocrites? Show me the tribute money. And they brought unto him a penny. And
he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription? They say unto him,
Caesar’s. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things
which are Caesar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s.
When they had heard these words, they marvelled, and left him, and went
their way.
✠ The Liturgy of the
Faithful ✠
The Offertory — Psalm 130
Out of the deep have I called unto thee, O Lord: Lord, hear my voice: out
of the deep have I called unto thee, O Lord.
The Secret
GRANT, we beseech thee, merciful Lord: that by this sacrifice ordained
for our salvation, we may evermore be delivered from the bonds of our sins, and
defended against all adversities; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
The Communion — St. Mark 11:24
Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray,
believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
The Postcommunion
O LORD, who hast made us partakers of the gifts of these holy mysteries:
We humbly beseech thee, that those things which thou hast commanded us to do in
remembrance of thee may be profitable to the succour of all our infirmities;
who livest and reignest with the Father. Amen.
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