Book of Common Prayer, 1928

Whitsunday
neither let it be afraid. Ye have heard how I said unto you,
I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye
would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my
Father is greater than I. And now I have told you before
it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might
believe. Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the
prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me. But
that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the
Father gave me commandment, even so I do.
If in any Church the I loly Communion be twice celehrated on Whit·
sunday, the following Collect, Epistle. and Gospel may be used at the
first Communion.
The Collect.
ALMIGHTY and most merciful God, grant, we beseech
fi thee, that by the indwelling of thy Holy Spirit, we
may be enlightened and strengthened for thy service;
through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth
with thee in the unity of the same Spirit ever, one God,
world without end. Amen.
The Epistle. I Corinthians xii. 4.
NOW there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
And there are differences of administrations, but the
same Lord. And there are diversities of operations, but it
is the same God which worketh all in all. But the manifestation
of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.
For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to
another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; to
another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts
of healing by the same Spirit; to another the working of
miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of
spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the
interpretation of tongues: but all these worketh that one
and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as
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he will. For as the body is one, and hath many members,
and all the members of that one body, being many, are one
body: so also is Christ. For by one Spirit are we all baptized
into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles,
whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to
drink into one Spirit. For the body is not one member, but
many.
The Gospel. St. Luke xi. 9.
JESUS said to his disciples, Ask, and it shall be given you;
seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened
unto you. For everyone that asketh receiveth; and he that
seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
If a son shall ask bread Ohiny of you that is a father, will
he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish
give him a serpent? or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer
him a scorpion? If ye then, being evil, know how to give
good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your
heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
Monday in Whitsun Week.
The Collect.
SEND, we beseech thee, Almighty God, thy Holy Spirit
juto our hearts, that he may direct and rule us according
to thy will, comfort us in all our afflictions, defend us
from all error, and lead us into all truth; through Jesus
Christ our Lord, who with thee and the same Holy Spirit
liveth and reigneth, one God, world without end. Amen.
For the Epistle. Acts x. 34.
THEN Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I
perceive that God is no respecter of persons: but in
every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness,
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