A.D. 2022 December 21
Saint Thomas, Apostle and Martyr
Collects
Almighty and everliving God, who for the greater confirmation of the faith didst suffer thy holy apostle Thomas to be doubtful of 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, O Lord, through the same Jesus Christ, to whom, with thee and the Holy Ghost, be all honour and glory, now and for evermore. Amen.
Lessons
Epistles and Gospels
Table of Lessons
Morning Prayer
Evening Prayer
Alternative Table of Lessons (1961) — Year I
Morning Prayer
Evening Prayer
- Psalm 106
- Sirach 2
- I Peter 1:3–9
Liturgical Colours
Red
References
The Fourth Wednesday of Advent
Collects
O Lord, raise up (we pray thee) thy power and come among us, and with great might succour us; that whereas, through our sins and wickedness, we are sore let and hindered in running the race that is set before us, thy bountiful grace and mercy may speedily help and deliver us, through the satisfaction of thy Son our Lord, to whom, with thee and the Holy Ghost, be honour and glory, world without end. Amen.
and
Almighty God, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life, in which thy Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility, that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty, to judge both the quick and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal, through him who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, now and ever. Amen.
Lessons
Table of Lessons
Morning Prayer
Evening Prayer
Alternative Table of Lessons (1961) — Year I
Morning Prayer
Evening Prayer
Liturgical Colours
Purple
O Rex Gentium
Antiphons
O King of the Nations, and their desire;
the Corner-stone, who makest both one:
Come and save mankind,
whom thou formedst of clay.
Liturgical Colours
Purple