Book of Common Prayer, 1928

Saint Thomas
Saint Thomas the Apostle.
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The Collect.
ALMIGHTY and everliving God, who, for the greater
n confirmation of the faith, didst suffer thy holy Apostle
Thomas to be doubtful in thy Son's resurrection; Grant us
so perfectly, and without all doubt, to believe in thy Son
Jesus Christ, that our faith in thy sight may never be reproved.
Hear us, 0 Lord, through the same Jesus Christ,
to whom, with thee and the Holy Ghost, be all honour and
glory, now and for evermore. Amen.
The Epistle. Hebrews x. 35, and part of Chap. xi.
CAST not away therefore your confidence, which hath
great recompence of reward. For ye have need of patience,
that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might
receive the promise. For yet a little while, and he that shall
come will come, and will not tarry. Now the just shall live
by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no
pleasure in him. But we are not of them who dra,,: back
unto perdition; but of them that believe to the savllg of
the soul. Now faith is the substance of things hoped for,
the evidence of things not seen.
The Gospel. St. John xx. 24·
THOMAS, one of the twelve, called Didymus, not
with them when Jesus came. The other diSCiples
therefore said unto him, We have seen the Lord. But he
said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print
of the nails, and put my tinger into the print of the nails,
and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe. And
after eight days again his disciples were within, and
Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being
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shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you.
Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and
behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust
it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing. And
Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my
God. Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen
me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen,
yet have believed: ';TIany other signs truly did Jesus
III the presence of his diSCiples, which are not written in
this book: but these are written, that ye might believe that
Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye
might have life through his name.
O
The Conversion of Saint Paul.
[January 25·]
The Collect.
GOD, who, through the preaching of the blessed
Apostle Saint Paul, hast caused the light of the Gospel
to shine throughout the world; Grant, we beseech thee
that we, having his wonderful conversion in remembrance;
may show forth our thankfulness unto thee for the same
by following the holy doctrine which he taught· through
Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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For the Epistle. Acts ix. 1.
AND yet out threatenings and slaughter
agrunst diSCiples of the Lord, went unto the high
P[lest, and des.Ired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues,
that if he found any of this way, whether they
were men or women, he might bring them bound unto
Jerusalem. And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus:
and suddenly there shined round about him a light from
heaven: and he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying
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