episcopalnet.org + BACK + NEXT 1928 BCP + Ordo Kalendar + CyberHymnal MISSAL PROPERS: EMBER FRIDAY IN LENT Station at the Church of the Twelve Apostles Click here for Prayer Book Propers  INTROIT.  De necessitatibus.  Ps. 25. O bring thou me out of my troubles, O Lord: look upon my adversity and misery, and forgive me all my sin. Ps. Ibid.  Unto thee, O Lord, will I lift up my soul: my God, I have put my trust in thee, O let me not be confounded.   V.  Glory be.   COLLECT. We beseech thee, O Lord, mercifully to have compassion on thy people S: that they, which by thee are enabled to serve thee in all godliness, may ever be comforted by thy gracious and ready help.   Through.   Seasonal Prayers as on Ash Wednesday. [Collect 15, from various prayers.]   EPISTLE. Ezekiel 18:20-28 20 THUS saith the Lord God: The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him. 21 But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die. 22 All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live. 23 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live? 24 But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die. 25 Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal? 26 When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die. 27 Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive. 28 Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.   GRADUAL.  Ps. 86.  My God, save they servant that putteth his trust in thee.  V.  Give ear, Lord, unto my prayer.   TRACT. Ps. 103. O Lord, deal not with us after our sins; nor reward us according to wickednesses. V. Ps. 79. Lord, remember not our old sins, but have mercy upon us, and that soon: for we are come to great misery. V. (Here genuflect.) Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy Name, O Lord: O deliver us and be merciful unto our sins, for thy Name's sake.    GOSPEL. St. John 5:1-15 1 AT that time: there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2 Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. 3 In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. 4 For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had. 5 And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole? 7 The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me. 8 Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk. 9 And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath. 10 The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath day: it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed. 11 He answered them, He that made me whole, the same said unto me, Take up thy bed, and walk. 12 Then asked they him, What man is that which said unto thee, Take up thy bed, and walk? 13 And he that was healed wist not who it was: for Jesus had conveyed himself away, a multitude being in that place. 14 Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee. 15 The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus, which had made him whole.   OFFERTORY.  Ps. 103.  Praise the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: who satisfieth thy mouth with good things : making thee young and lusty as an eagle.   SECRET.  Accept, O Lord, we pray thee, these oblations of our bounden service: and like as thou hast thyself bestowed these gifts upon us, so do thou of thy mercy sanctify the same.   Through.   COMMUNION.  Ps. 6.  All mine enemies shall be confounded and sore vexed: they shall be turned back and put to shame suddenly.   POSTCOMMUNION. Grant, O Lord, that by the operation of these thy mysteries we may be cleansed from all our sins, and obtain that which we have asked according to thy will.   Through.   Over the people.  Let us pray.  Bow down before the Lord.   COLLECT. Most merciful God, we beseech thee graciously to incline thine ear unto these our prayers: and to shew forth in our hearts the bright beams of thy grace.   Through.        All Rights Reserved. © 2002 episcopalnet.org