Great Service

O come, let us sing unto the Lord:
let us heartily rejoice in the strength of our salvation.
Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving:
and show ourselves glad in him with psalms.
For the Lord is a great God:
and a great King above all gods.
In his hand are all the corners of the earth:
and the strength of the hills is his also.
The sea is his, and he made it:
and his hands prepared the dry land.
O come, let us worship, and fall down:
and kneel before the Lord our Maker.
For he is the Lord our God: and we are the people
of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.
Today if ye will hear his voice, 
harden not your hearts:
as in the provocation,
and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness;
When your fathers tempted me:
proved me, and saw my works.
Forty years long was I grieved with this generation,
and said: It is a people that do err in their hearts,
for they have not known my ways.
Unto whom I sware in my wrath:
that they should not enter into my rest.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, 
and to the Holy Ghost; 
as it was in the beginning, 
and is now and ever shall be, world without end.
Amen.

We praise thee, O God:
we knowledge thee to be the Lord.
All the earth doth worship thee: the Father everlasting.
To thee all Angels cry aloud:
the heavens and all the powers therein.
To thee Cherubim and Seraphim: continually do cry,
Holy, Holy, Holy: Lord God of Sabaoth;
Heaven and earth are full of the Majesty:
of thy glory.
The glorious company of the Apostles: praise thee.
The noble army of Martyrs: praise thee.
The holy Church throughout all the world:
doth knowledge thee;
The Father: of an infinite Majesty;
Thine honourable, true: and only Son;
Also the Holy Ghost: the Comforter.
Thou art the King of glory: O Christ.
Thou art the everlasting: Son of the Father.
When thou tookest upon thee to deliver Man:
thou didst not abhor the Virgin’s womb.
When thou hadst overcome the sharpness of death:
thou didst open the kingdom of heaven to all believers.
Thou sittest on the right hand of God:
in the glory of the Father.
We believe that thou shalt come: to be our Judge.
We therefore pray thee, help thy servants:
whom thou hast redeemed with thy precious blood.
Make them to be numbered with thy Saints:
in glory everlasting.
O Lord, save thy people: and bless thine heritage.
Govern them: and lift them up for ever.
Day by day: we magnify thee;
And we worship thy Name: ever world without end.
Vouchsafe, O Lord:
to keep us this day without sin.
O Lord, have mercy upon us: have mercy upon us.
O Lord, in thee have I trusted:
let me never be confounded.

Blessed be the Lord God of Israel:
for he hath visited and redeemed his people;
And hath raised up a mighty salvation for us:
in the house of his servant David;
As he spake by the mouth of his holy Prophets:
which have been since the world began;
That we should be saved from our enemies:
and from the hands of all that hate us;
To perform the mercy
promised to our forefathers:
and to remember his holy covenant;
To perform the oath which he sware
to our forefather Abraham: that he would give us;
That we being delivered out of the hands of our enemies:
might serve him without fear;
In holiness and righteousness before him:
all the days of our life.
And thou, child, shalt be called the Prophet of the Highest:
for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord
to prepare his ways;
To give knowledge of salvation unto his people:
for the remission of their sins;
Through the tender mercy of our God:
whereby the day-spring from on high hath visited us;
To give light to them that sit in darkness,
and in the shadow of death: and to guide our feet
into the way of peace.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son: and to the Holy Ghost;
As it was in the beginning, and is now,
and ever shall be:
world without end. Amen.

I believe in one God, 
the Father Almighty,
maker of heaven and earth,
and of all things visible and invisible:
And in one Lord Jesus Christ,
the only-begotten Son of God,
begotten of his Father before all worlds,
God of Gods, Light of Light,
Very God of very God,
begotten, not made,
being of one substance with the Father,
by whom all things were made:
who for us men and for our salvation
came down from heaven.
And was incarnate by the Holy Ghost 
of the Virgin Mary, and was made man,
and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate.
He suffered and was buried,
and the third day he rose again according to the Scriptures,
and ascended into heaven, 
and sitteth at the right hand of the Father. 
And he shall come again with glory
to judge both the quick and the dead:
whose kingdom shall have no end.
And I believe in the Holy Ghost,
the Lord and giver of life,
who proceedeth from the Father and the Son,
who with the Father and the Son together
is worshipped and glorified,
who spake by the Prophets.
And I believe one Catholic
and Apostolic Church.
I acknowledge one Baptism for the remission of sins.
And I look for the Resurrection of the dead,
and the life of the world to come. Amen.

My soul doth magnify the Lord:
and my spirit rejoiceth in God my Saviour.
For he hath regarded the lowliness of his hand-maiden.
For behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.
For he that is mighty hath magnified me
and holy is his Name.
And his mercy is on them that fear him
throughout all generations.
He hath showed strength with his arm: 
he hath scattered the proud 
in the imagination of their hearts.
He hath put down the mighty from their seat:
and hath exalted the humble and meek.
He hath filled the hungry with good things:
and the rich he hath sent empty away.
He remembering his mercy 
hath holpen his servant Israel
as he promised to our forefather Abraham and to his seed for ever.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, 
and to the Holy Ghost; 
as it was in the beginning, 
and is now and ever shall be, world without end.
Amen.

Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace;
  according to thy word;
For mine eyes have seen thy salvation,
  Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people,
To be a light to lighten the Gentiles,
  and to be the glory of thy people Israel.