🕯️ THE SIXTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY 🕯️ Be merciful unto me, O Lord, for I will call daily upon thee: for thou, O Lord, art good and gracious, and of the great mercy unto all them that call upon thee. Bow down thine ear, O Lord, and hear me: for I am poor and in misery.

🕯️ AUTUMN EMBER SATURDAY 🕯️ O come, let us worship and fall down: and kneel before the Lord our Maker: for he is the Lord our God. O come, let us sing unto the Lord: let us heartily rejoice in the strength of our Salvation.

🕯️ AUTUMN EMBER FRIDAY 🕯️ Let the heart of them rejoice that seek the Lord: seek the Lord and his strength: seek his face evermore. O give thanks unto the Lord, and call upon his Name: tell the people what things he hath done.

🕯️ AUTUMN EMBER WEDNESDAY 🕯️ Sing we merrily unto God our strength: make a cheerful noise unto the God of Jacob: take the psalm, bring hither the tabret: the merry harp with the lute: blow up the trumpet in the new-moon, for this was made a statute for Israel.

🕯️ THE FIFTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY 🕯️ Bow down thine ear, O Lord, and hear me: my God, save thy servant, that putteth his trust in thee: be merciful unto me, O Lord, for I will call daily upon thee.

🕯️ EDMUND JAMES PECK, MISSIONARY TO THE INUIT, 1924 🕯️ The mouth of the righteous is exercised in wisdom, and his tongue will be talking of judgment: the law of God is in his heart. Fret not thyself because of the ungodly: neither be thou envious against the evildoers.

🕯️ THE NATIVITY OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY 🕯️ Hail, O Mother most holy, who didst give birth to the monarch: reigning o'er heaven and earth, world without end. My heart is inditing of a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made unto the King.

🕯️ LABOUR DAY 🕯️ O Lord Jesus Christ, who in thy earthly life didst share man’s toil, and thereby hallow the labour of his hands: Prosper all those who maintain the industries of this land; and give them pride in their work and a just reward for their labour.

🕯️ THE THIRTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY 🕯️ Look, O Lord, upon the covenant, and forget not the congregation of the poor for ever: arise, O God, maintain thine own cause, and be not unmindful of the voices of them that seek thee.

🕯️ THE BEHEADING OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST 🕯️ I will speak of thy testimonies also even before kings, and will not be ashamed: and my delight shall be in thy commandments, which I have loved exceedingly.

🕯️ ROBERT MCDONALD, MISSIONARY IN THE WESTERN ARCTIC, 1913 🕯️ The mouth of the righteous is exercised in wisdom, and his tongue will be talking of judgment: the law of God is in his heart. Fret not thyself because of the ungodly: neither be thou envious against the evildoers.

🕯️ SAINT BARTHOLOMEW THE APOSTLE 🕯️ Right dear are thy friends unto me, O God, and held in the highest honour: their rule and governance is exceeding steadfast. Lord, thou hast searched me out, and known me: thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising.

🕯️ THE TWELFTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY 🕯️ Haste thee, O God, to deliver me: make haste to help me, O Lord: let them be ashamed and confounded, that seek after my soul. Let them be turned backward, and put to confusion: that wish me evil.

🕯️ BERNARD, ABBOT OF CLAIRVAUX, FRANCE, DOCTOR AND POET, 1153 🕯️ In the midst of the congregation he opened his mouth: and the Lord filled him with the spirit of wisdom and understanding: he clothed him with a robe of glory.

🕯️ THE ELEVENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY 🕯️ God is in his holy habitation, he is the God that maketh men to be of one mind in an house: he will give strength and power unto his people. Let God arise, and let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him.

🕯️ THE FALLING ASLEEP OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY 🕯️ Rejoice we all in the Lord, keeping holy-day in honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary: in whose Assumption the Angels rejoice and glorify the Son of God.

🕯️ HIPPOLYTUS, DOCTOR, BISHOP IN ROME, MARTYR 235 🕯️ In the midst of the congregation he opened his mouth: and the Lord filled him with the spirit of wisdom and understanding: he clothed him with a robe of glory.

🕯️ CHARLES INGLIS, FIRST ANGLICAN BISHOP IN CANADA, CONSECRATED 1787 🕯️ The Lord made with him a covenant of peace, and made him the chief of his people: that he should have the dignity of the priesthood for ever. Lord remember David: and all his trouble.

🕯️ THE TENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY 🕯️ When I called upon the Lord, he heard my voice, even from the battle that was against me: yea, even God that endureth for ever shall hear me, and bring them down: O cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall nourish thee.

🕯️ THE NAME OF JESUS 🕯️ At the Name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven and things in earth, and things under the earth: and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

🕯️ THE TRANSFIGURATION OF OUR LORD 🕯️ The lightnings shone upon the ground: the earth was moved and shook withal. O how amiable are thy dwellings, thou Lord of Hosts. My soul hath a desire and longing to enter into the courts of the Lord.

🕯️ OSWALD, KING OF NORTHUMBRIA, MARTYR 641 🕯️ The righteous shall rejoice in thy strength, O Lord: exceeding glad shall he be of thy salvation: thou hast given him his heart's desire.

🕯️ THE NINTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY 🕯️ Behold, God is my helper, the Lord is with them that uphold my soul: reward thou evil unto mine enemies: and destroy thou them in thy truth, O Lord my defender. Save me, O God, for thy Name's sake: and avenge me in thy strength.

🕯️ THE MACCABEAN MARTYRS 🕯️ The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth them: and delivereth them out of all their troubles. I will alway give thanks unto the Lord: his praise shall ever be in my mouth.

🕯️ WILLIAM WILBERFORCE, EMANCIPATOR OF THE SLAVES, 1833 🕯️ I know, O Lord, that thy judgments are right, and that thou of very faithfulness hast caused me to be troubled: my flesh trembleth for fear of thee, and I am afraid of thy judgments.

🕯️ THE EIGHTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY 🕯️ We have waited for thy loving-kindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple: O God, according to thy Name, so is thy praise unto the world's end: thy right hand is full of righteousness.

🕯️ SAINT JAMES THE APOSTLE 🕯️ Right dear are thy friends unto me, O God, and held in the highest honour: their rule and governance is exceeding steadfast. Lord, thou hast searched me out, and known me: thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising.

🕯️ SAINT MARY MAGDALENE 🕯️ The ungodly laid wait for me to destroy me: but I will consider thy testimonies, O Lord: I see that all things come to an end: but thy commandment is exceeding broad. Blessed are those that are undefiled in the way: and walk in the law of the Lord.

🕯️ THE SEVENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY 🕯️ O clap your hands together, all ye people: O sing unto God with the voice of melody. For the Lord is high and to be feared: he is the great king upon all the earth.

🕯️ SWITHUN, BISHOP OF WINCHESTER, C. 862 🕯️ The Lord made with him a covenant of peace, and made him the chief of his people: that he should have the dignity of the priesthood for ever. Lord remember David: and all his trouble.