Audio file of 8:00am Holy Communion service, Octave Day of Easter
Click here to listen to an audio recording of the 8:00am service of Holy Communion at Christ Church on the Octave Day of Easter.
Category: Prayers and liturgy
The Octave Day of Easter
The collect for today, The Octave Day of Easter, being The Sunday After Easter Day, from The Book of Common Prayer (Canadian, 1962):
Almighty Father, who hast given thine only Son to die for our sins, and to rise again for our justification; Grant us so to put away the leaven of malice and wickedness, that we may alway serve thee in pureness of living and truth; through the merits of the same thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
The Epistle: 1 St. John 5:4-12
The Gospel: St. John 20:19-23
Artwork: William Blake, Christ Appearing to the Apostles after the Resurrection, 1795-1805. Colour print, watercolor, pen and black ink on paper, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut.
Tuesday in Easter Week
The collect for today, Tuesday in Easter Week, from The Book of Common Prayer (Canadian, 1962):
ALMIGHTY God, who through thine only begotten Son Jesus Christ hast overcome death, and opened unto us the gate of everlasting life: We humbly beseech thee, that as by thy special grace thou dost put into our minds good desires, so by thy continual help we may bring the same to good effect; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, ever one God, world without end. Amen.
The Lesson: Acts 13:26-41
The Gospel: St. Luke 24:36-48
Artwork: Herbert Gustave Schmalz, Resurrection Morn, c. 1895. Oil on canvas, BYU Museum of Art, Provo, Utah.
Monday In Easter Week
The collect for today, Monday in Easter Week, from The Book of Common Prayer (Canadian, 1962):
ALMIGHTY God, who through thine only begotten Son Jesus Christ hast overcome death, and opened unto us the gate of everlasting life: We humbly beseech thee, that as by thy special grace thou dost put into our minds good desires, so by thy continual help we may bring the same to good effect; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, ever one God, world without end. Amen.
The Lesson: Acts 10:34-43
The Gospel: St. Luke 24:13-35
Artwork: Rembrandt, The Supper at Emmaus, c. 1629. Oil on wood panel, Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris.
Audio file of 8:00am Holy Communion service, Easter Day
Click here to listen to an audio recording of the 8:00am service of Holy Communion at Christ Church on Easter Day.
Easter Day
The collect for today, Easter-Day, from The Book of Common Prayer (Canadian, 1962) :
ALMIGHTY God, who through thine only begotten Son Jesus Christ hast overcome death, and opened unto us the gate of everlasting life: We humbly beseech thee, that as by thy special grace thou dost put into our minds good desires, so by thy continual help we may bring the same to good effect; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, ever one God, world without end. Amen.
The Epistle: Colossians 3:1-11
The Gospel: St. John 20:1-10
Artwork: Giovanni Bellini, The Resurrection, c. 1475-79. Oil on panel, transferred to canvas, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin.
Easter Even
The collect for today, Easter Even, or Holy Saturday, from The Book of Common Prayer (Canadian, 1962):
GRANT, O Lord, that as we are baptized into the death of thy blessed Son our Saviour Jesus Christ, so by continual mortifying our corrupt affections we may be buried with him; and that, through the grave, and gate of death, we may pass to our joyful resurrection; for his merits, who died, and was buried, and rose again for us, thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
The Epistle: 1 St. Peter 3:17-22
The Gospel: St. Matthew 27:57-66
Artwork: Annibale Carracci, The Dead Christ Mourned, c. 1604. Oil on canvas, National Gallery, London.
Good Friday
The collects for today, Good Friday, from The Book of Common Prayer (Canadian, 1962):
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 Spirit, 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.
The Epistle: Hebrews 10:1-25
The Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Saint John
The Gospel: St. John 18:33-19:37
Artwork: Peter Paul Rubens, Raising of the Cross, 1638. Oil on paper transferred to canvas, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.
Maundy Thursday
The collects for today, Thursday in Holy Week, commonly called Maundy Thursday, from The Book of Common Prayer (Canadian, 1962):
ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, who, of thy tender love towards mankind, hast sent thy Son our Saviour Jesus Christ, to take upon him our flesh, and to suffer death upon the cross, that all mankind should follow the example of his great humility: Mercifully grant, that we may both follow the example of his patience, and also he made partakers of his resurrection; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
O GOD, who in a wonderful sacrament hast left unto us a memorial of thy passion: Grant us so to reverence the holy mysteries of thy Body and Blood, that we may ever know within ourselves the fruit of thy redemption; who livest and reignest with the Father in the unity of the Holy Ghost, one God, world without end. Amen.
The Epistle: 1 Corinthians 11:23-29
The Continuation of the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke
The Gospel: St. Luke 23:1-49
Artwork: Giovanni Battista Rovedata, The Agony in the Garden of Gethsemane, c. 1610. Oil on touchstone, Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona.
Wednesday in Holy Week
The collect for today, Wednesday in Holy Week, from The Book of Common Prayer (Canadian, 1962):
ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, who, of thy tender love towards mankind, hast sent thy Son our Saviour Jesus Christ, to take upon him our flesh, and to suffer death upon the cross, that all mankind should follow the example of his great humility: Mercifully grant, that we may both follow the example of his patience, and also be made partakers of his resurrection; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
The Epistle: Hebrews 9:15-28
The Beginning of the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ according to St. Luke
The Gospel: St. Luke 22:1-71
Artwork: Matthias Grünewald, Jesus Falls While Carrying the Cross, c. 1523-24. Oil on wood, Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany.