[The Prayer-Book Collect, Epistle, and Gospel are to be found in Propers for Certain Moveable Holy Days, page D 1 in the Missal.]

INTROIT

Deus, dum egrederis (Psalm 68)

  O God, when thou wentest forth before the people,
  When thou wentest through the wilderness, alleluia:
  The earth shook, and the heavens dropped,
Alleluia, alleluia.  §

Let God arise and let his enemies be scattered:
Let them also that hate him flee before him.
Glory be ...
As it was ...

(Repeat to §.)

After the Kyrie eleison is said forthwith: Let us pray, but Let us bow the knee is not said.

THE COLLECT

We beseech thee, O Lord, that the Comforter which proceedeth from thee may enlighten our minds: and lead us, as thy Son hath promised, into all truth.  Who  liveth and reigneth with thee.

LESSON

Acts 2.14 – 21

In those days: Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words:  For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day.  But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;  And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:  And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:  And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:  The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come:  And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.
 

 ALLELUIA

Alleluia:
Alleluia.
(Psalm 33) By the word of the Lord were the heavens made,
And all the hosts of them by the Breath of his mouth.
 

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Here is said Gloria in excelsis, and then V. The Lord be with you.  Let us pray.
 

COLLECT

Grant, we beseech thee, almighty and merciful God: that thy Holy Ghost descending on us may by his gracious indwelling render us a temple of his glory.  Through ... in the unity of the same.

§ From today until Saturday inclusive, is said only one Seasonal Prayer after the Prayer of the day, to wit, the Prayer for the Church, as given after Low Sunday.  [Or on the Ember Days may be said Collect 15, from Various Prayers in the Missal.]

If a simple Feast occur, or a Feast reduced to the form of a Simple, the Collect for the Church is omitted.

LESSON

Acts 5.12-16

In those days: By the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people; (and they were all with one accord in Solomon's porch.  And of the rest durst no man join himself to them: but the people magnified them.  And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women.)  Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them.  There came also a multitude out of the cities round about unto Jerusalem, bringing sick folks, and them which were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed every one.
 

ALLELUIA

Alleluia:
Alleluia.

Here genuflect.

Come, Holy Ghost, and fill the hearts of thy faithful And kindle in them the fire of they love.
 

SEQUENCE

Veni, Sancte Spiritus

Come, thou Holy Spirit, come; and from thy celestial home send thy light and brilliancy.
Come, thou father of the poor, come who givest all our store, come the soul’s true radiancy;
Come, of comforter’s the best, of the soul the sweetest guest, sweetly and refreshingly;
People  Come, in labour rest most sweet, shade and coolness in the heat, comfort in adversity.
Thou who art the Light most blest, come fulfill their inmost breast, who believe most faithfully;
People  For without thy Godhead’s dower, man hath nothing in his power, save to work iniquity;
What is filthy make thou pure, what is wounded work its cure, water what is parched and dry;
Gently bend the stubborn will, warm to life the heart that’s chill,, guide who goeth erringly;
Fill thy faithful who adore, and confess thee evermore, with thy sevenfold mystery;
People  Here thy grace and virtue send, grant salvation in the end, and in heaven felicity.
All:       Amen, Alleluia.
 

THE GOSPEL

St. John 6.44 – 51

At that time: Jesus said unto the multitudes of the Jews: No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.  It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.  Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of God, he hath seen the Father.  Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.  I am that bread of life.  Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.  This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.  I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
 
 
The Creed is said.

OFFERTORY  Psalm 119

My delight shall be in thy commandments, which I have loved exceedingly: my hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved, alleluia.

SECRET

We beseech thee, O Lord, mercifully to accept these our oblations: and vouchsafe so to work in us, that we, which outwardly shew forth thy mysteries, may inwardly celebrate the same with all godly and devout affections.  Through.

SECRET 2

for Church, as given after Low Sunday.  [Or Secret 15, from Various Prayers in the Missal.]

COMMUNION  St. John 14

Peace I leave with you, alleluia: my peace I give unto you, alleluia, alleluia.

POSTCOMMUNION

O Lord, who hast suffered us to receive these heavenly sacraments, we humbly beseech thy mercy: that those things which we do shew forth in this life temporal, we may hereafter obtain in everlasting felicity.  Through.

POSTCOMMUNION 2
 
for Church, as given after Low Sunday.  [Or Postcommunion 15, from Various Prayers in the Missal.]

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