MORNING AND EVENING PRAYER.
is in heaven.( 1) Give us this day our daily 1. Petitions relative bread. And forgive us our trespasses, As we to ourselves. forgive them that trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation; But deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, The power and the glory, for ever and ever.( H) Amen.
T Then likewise he shall say.( 1)
( 2) O Lord, open thou our lips. Answer. And our mouth shall shew forth thy praise.
( 3) Priest. O God, make speed to save us. Answer. O Lord, make haste to help us.
Here all standing up,( K) the Priest shall say,
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son: and to the Holy Ghost;
Answer. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be: world without end. Amen.
2. Ps. li. 15. We ask to be freed from that fear of God's displeasure, which seals our lips. 3. Ps. 40. 16; 70. 1. Hosannah: Save us now Lord,' help us in the duties we are about to perform.
is the first Prayer of our Liturgy. The Roman church directs the Priest to read the Prayer, the people to say it secretly. Our church enjoins all to repeat it aloud, and in the most humble posture of religious worship.
H. This Doxology, or form of giving praise to God, was added at the last review of the Common Prayer Book. It is taken from St. Matt. Gospel, vi. 13. It is generally used when the office is matter of praise, as here after the Absolution.
I. It was the practice of the Jews to recite their public Hymns and Prayers by course; the primitive Christians did so; and all old Liturgies contain short sentences, wherein the People answer the Priest. These are therefore called" Responses." The design being, by grateful variety, to keep up the attention, both Priest and People ought mentally to offer up what is vocally expressed by the other.
K. A posture of respectful worship of God, when engaged in acts of praise and thanksgiving; derived to the Christian, from the Jewish church.
The office thus far Penitential, now becomes Eucharistical.
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