Collects, Epistles, and
Gospels
for Passiontide.
for Passiontide.
The Collects.
ALMIGHTY God, we beseech thee graciously
to behold this thy family, for which our Lord Jesus Christ was
contented to be betrayed, and given up into the hands of wicked
men, and to suffer death upon the cross; who now liveth and reigneth
with thee and the Holy Ghost ever, one God, world without end.
Amen.
ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, by whose Spirit the whole body
of the Church is governed and sanctified; Receive our supplications
and prayers, which we offer before thee for all estates of men
in thy holy Church, that every member of the same, in his vocation
and ministry, may truly and godly serve thee; through our Lord
and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen.
MERCIFUL God, who hast made all men, and hatest nothing that
thou hast made, nor desirest the death of a sinner, but rather
that he should be converted and live; Have mercy upon all who
know thee not as thou art revealed in the Gospel of thy Son.
Take from them all ignorance, hardness of heart, and contempt
of thy Word; and so fetch them home, blessed Lord, to thy fold,
that they may be made one flock under one shepherd, Jesus Christ
our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit,
one God, world without end. Amen.
THE law having a shadow of good things
to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with
those sacrifices, which they offered year by year continually,
make the comers thereunto perfect. For then would they not have
ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged
should have had no more conscience of sins. But in those sacrifices
there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. For it
is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take
away sins. Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith,
Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou
prepared me: in burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast
had no pleasure. Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the
book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. Above when
he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt-offerings and offering
for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which
are offered by the law; then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will,
O God: he taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the
body of Jesus Christ once for all. And every priest standeth
daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices,
which can never take away sins: but this man, after he had offered
one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of
God; from henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.
For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are
sanctified. Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for
after that he had said before, This is the covenant that I will
make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my
laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
then saith he, And their sins and iniquities will I remember
no more. Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering
for sin. Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the
holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which
he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say,
his flesh; and having an high priest over the house of God; let
us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having
our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies
washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the profession of our
faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;) and
let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good
works: not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as
the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much
the more, as ye see the day approaching.
PILATE therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe, and said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they smote him with their hands. Pilate therefore went forth again, and saith unto them, Behold, I bring him forth to you, that ye may know that I find no fault in him. Then came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe. And Pilate saith unto them, Behold the man! When the chief priests therefore and officers saw him, they cried out, saying, Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Take ye him, and crucify him: for I find no fault in him. The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God. When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he was the more afraid; and went again into the judgment hall, and saith unto Jesus, Whence art thou? But Jesus gave him no answer. Then saith Pilate unto him, Speakest thou not unto me? knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and have power to release thee? Jesus answered, Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin. And from thenceforth Pilate sought to release him: but the Jews cried out, saying, If thou let this man go, thou art not Caesar's friend: whosoever maketh himself a king, speaketh against Caesar. When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought Jesus forth, and sat down in the judgment-seat in a place that is called the Pavement, but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha. And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour: and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King ! But they cried out, Away with him, away with him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar. Then delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led him away. And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha: where they crucified him, and two other with him, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst. And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross. And the writing was, JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS. This title then read many of the Jews: for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city; and it was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin. Then said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate, Write not, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am King of the Jews. Pilate answered, What I have written I have written. Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also his coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout. They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did. Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son ! Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home. After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst. Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth. When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost. The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him. But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs: but one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water. And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe. For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken. And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced.
The royal banners forward go(procession) - Vexilla Regis 63
There is a green hill far away - Horsley 65
There is a green hill far away - Meditation 65
Sing, my tongue the glorious battle(office hymn) - Pange Lingua 66
Go to dark Gethsemane - Petra 70
Ah, holy Jesus, how hast thou offended - Herzliebster Jesu 71
O sacred head, sore wounded - Passion Chorale 75
At the cross her vigil keeping - Mainz 76
At the cross her vigil keeping - Stabat Mater 76
Were you there when they crucified my Lord - Were You There 80
Jesus in thy dying woes - Swedish litany 82
Jesus in thy dying woes - Ton-mân 82
When I survey the wondrous cross - Rockingham 337
We sing the praise of him who died - Breslau 340
O love, how deep, how broad, how high - Deus Tuorum Milirum 344
Lord Christ, when first thou cam'st - Bohemian brethren 522