How shall this be, seeing I know not a man? And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born shall be called the Son of God. And behold, thy cousin Elizabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her age; and this is her sixth month, which was called barren: for with God shall nothing be unpossible. And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.

Saint Mark's Day.

Domine, clamavi. Psalm cxli. LORD, I call upon thee, haste thee unto me and consider my voice when I cry unto thee.

Let my prayer be set forth in thy sight as the incense and let the lifting up of my hands. be an evening sacrifice.

Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth and keep the door of my lips.

O let not mine heart be inclined to any evil thing: let me not be occupied in ungodly works with the men that work wickedness, lest I eat of such things as please them.

Let the righteous rather smite me friendly and reprove me.

But let not their precious balms break mine head: yea, I will pray yet against their wick

edness.

Let their judges be overthrown in stony places that they may hear my words, for they are sweet,

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Our bones lie scattered before the pit like as when one breaketh and heweth wood upon the earth.

But mine eyes look unto thee, O Lord God in thee is my trust, O cast not out my soul.

Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me : and from the traps of the wicked doers.

Let the ungodly fall into their own nets together: and let me ever escape them.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost;

As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be: world without end. Amen.

The Collect.

ALMIGHTY God, which hast instructed thy holy church with the heavenly doctrine of thy evangelist Saint Mark; Give us grace so to be established by thy holy gospel, that we be not, like children, carried away with every blast of vain doctrine; through Jesus Christ our Lord.

The Epistle. Ephes. iv.

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doctrine, by the wiliness of men, through craftiness, whereby they lay await for us to deceive us; but let us follow the truth in love, and in all things grow in him, which is the head, even Christ? in whom if all the body be coupled and knit together throughout every joint, wherewith one ministereth to another, (according to the operation, as every part hath his measure,) he increaseth the body, unto the edifying of itself through love.

The Gospel. John xv.

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I AM the true vine, and my Father is an husbandman. Every branch that beareth not fruit in me, he will take away; and every branch that beareth fruit, will he purge, that it may bring forth more fruit. Now are ye clean through the words which I have spoken unto you. Bide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it bide in the vine, no more can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit. For without me can ye do nothing. not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they burn. If ye Pbide in me, and my words abide in you, ask what ye will, and it shall be done for you. Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit, and become my disciples. As the Father hath loved me, even so have I also loved you: continue 'ye in my love. If ye keep my commandments, ye shall bide in my love, even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.

ALMIGHTY God, whom truly to know is everlasting life; Grant us perfectly to know thy Son Jesus Christ to be the way, the truth, and the life; as thou hast taught Saint Philip and other the apostles; through Jesus Christ our Lord.

The Epistle. James i.

JAMES, the servant of God, and of the Lord Jesus Christ, sendeth greeting to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad. My brethren, count it for an exceeding joy when ye fall into divers temptations; knowing this, that the trying of your faith gendereth patience: and let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and sound, lacking nothing. If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of him that giveth it, even God, which giveth to all men indifferently, and casteth no man in the teeth, and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, and waver not; for he that doubteth is like a wave of the sea, which is tossed of the winds, and carried with violence. Neither let that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. A wavering-minded man is unstable in all his ways. Let the brother which is of low degree rejoice when he is exalted. Again, let him that is rich rejoice when he is made low; for even as the flower of the grass shall he pass away. For as the sun riseth with heat, and the grass withereth, and his flower falleth away, and the beauty of the fashion of it perisheth; even so shall the rich man perish in his ways. Happy is the man that endureth tempta

tion; for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

The Gospel. John xiv.

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AND Jesus said unto his disciples, Let not your heart be troubled; ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you: and if I go to prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you even unto myself, that where I am, there may ye be also. And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest, and how is it possible for us to know the way? Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father but by me. If ye had known me, ye had known my Father also: and now ye know him, and have seen him. Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? He that hath seen me hath seen my Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father? "Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself; but the Father that dwelleth in me is he that doeth the works. Believe me, that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or else believe me for the works' sake. Verily, verily I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do, the same shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. And whatsoever ye ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified by the Son. If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.