Let thy merciful ears, O Lord, be open to the prayers of thy humble servants; and that they may obtain their petitions make them to ask such things as shall please thee; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. The Epistle

One of the Post Communions of Apostles and Evangelists is used ( here). 1 May Philip and James Red Collect The psalm or canticle follows the first reading; other hymns and songs may be used between the readings. Gospel Reading Harvest Thanksgiving may be celebrated on a Sunday and may replace the provision for that day, provided it does not supersede any Principal Feast or Festival. Collect The ministers and people go in procession to the font, or to the door of the church, or to another suitable place. A large cross may be placed there. As they process they sing Nunc dimittis or another song or hymn. Final Responsory

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This service is appropriate for the Feast of the Epiphany, whether it is celebrated on 6 January or transferred to the Sunday falling between 2 and 8 January. ¶ The Gathering ↑

This service is most appropriately used on the Festival of the Baptism of Christ. It may also be used on the Feast of the Epiphany, or on the evening before the Epiphany, or at any suitable time within the Epiphany season. 2 Procession or Carol Service This Collect may be used as the Post Communion on any day from the Second Sunday of Advent until Christmas Eve instead of the Post Communion provided. A bidding may precede the Opening Prayer, or appropriate biddings may be introduced before the Gospel Collects. Alternatively, provision is made for intercessory prayer later in the service. A Service for

the Festival of the Baptism of Christ Structure ¶ Introduction ¶ The King of all the World is Revealed to the Magi ¶ The New Creation is Revealed in the Water made Wine ¶ The Christ is Revealed in the Waters of Baptism ¶ The Renewal of the Covenant ¶ The Prayers ¶ The Sending Out Notes 1 When to use the Rite This provision is always used from the day after the Presentation of Christ in the Temple until the first of the Sundays before Lent. Collect This Post Communion may be used as the Collect at Morning and Evening Prayer during this week. Dedication Festival Gold or Mothering Sunday may be celebrated in preference to the provision for the Fourth Sunday of Lent. Collect In the Western churches, the Epiphany (‘manifestation’) became an occasion to celebrate one element in the story of Christ’s birth, the visit of the far-travelled magi, understood as the manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles. Matthew’s account speaks simply of ‘wise men from the east’; later tradition fixed their number at three, made them kings and recalled their resonant names – Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar. In this perspective, Epiphanytide is an apt season to pray for the worldwide mission of the Church. The feast of the Conversion of St Paul, the Apostle to the Gentiles, appropriately falls in the Epiphany season, as does the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. In the Eastern churches, the Epiphany is, rather, the celebration of Christ’s baptism at the hands of John, when the heavens were opened and a voice from heaven declared Jesus to be God’s beloved Son. The miracle of Cana in Galilee, where Jesus ‘first manifested his glory’, follows immediately:

Jesus said,] ‘Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. for you are alive and reign, now and for ever. Good Friday Principal Holy Day Hangings removed: red for the liturgy Collect O Lord God Almighty, who didst endue thy holy Apostle Barnabas with singular gifts of the Holy Ghost: Leave us not, we beseech thee, destitute of thy manifold gifts, nor yet of grace to use them alway to thy honour and glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. For the Epistle And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes. For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, and shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation. And he went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold therein, and them that bought, saying unto them, It is written, My house is the house of prayer: but ye have made it a den of thieves. And he taught daily in the temple.

One of the Post Communions of Apostles and Evangelists is used ( here). 22 July Mary Magdalene White Collect Jesus said,] ‘As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given them, so that they may be one, as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may be completely one, so that the world may know that you have sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.’ One of the Post Communions of Apostles and Evangelists is used ( here). 28 October Simon and Jude Red Collect John testified,‘I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it remained on him. I myself did not know him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water said to me,“He on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.” And I myself have seen and have testified that this is the Son of God.’ The water may be sprinkled over the people, or placed in vessels by the door for them to make the sign of the cross as they leave, or poured out over the threshold.