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Description: ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, who hatest nothing that thou hast made, and dost forgive the sins of all those who are penitent; Create and make in us new and contrite hearts, that we, worthily lamenting our sins and acknowledging our wretchedness, may obtain of thee, the God of all mercy, perfect remission and forgiveness; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. O LORD, who for our sake didst fast forty days and forty nights: give us grace to use such abstinence, that, our flesh being subdued to the Spirit, we may ever obey thy godly motions in righteousness and true holiness, to thy honour and glory. [Who.] EPISTLE. 2 Corinthians 6:1-10
 1 We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain. 
 2 (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.) 
 3 Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed: 
 4 But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, 
 5 In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; 
 6 By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, 
7 By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, 
 8 By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true; 
 9 As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; 
 10 As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things. 
 GOSPEL. Saint Matthew 4:1-11
 1 AT that time: then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. 
 2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungered. 
 3 And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. 
 4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. 
 5 Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, 6 And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. 
7 Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. 
 8 Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and showeth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; 
 9 And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. 
 10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. 
 11 Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him. Weekly meditations on the Sunday propers of the 1928 Book of Common Prayer, by the Rt Rev. David McMannes, Bishop and Rector of Saint Luke's Church, Sedona, AZ. Saint Luke's uses the 1928 Book of Common Prayer, is an Anglo-Catholic parish, part of the Continuing Church movement in the United States, and a member of the Anglican Diocese of Arizona. Less

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