The Book of Common Prayer Table of
contents
Saint Philip and Saint James's
Day
May 1.
The Collect
O Almighty God,
whom truly to know is everlasting life: Grant us perfectly to know
thy Son Jesus Christ to be the way, the truth, and the life; that,
following the steps of thy holy Apostles, Saint Philip and Saint
James, we may stedfastly walk in the way that leadeth to eternal
life; through the same thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
The Epistle
St. James 1.1-12
James, a servant
of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are
scattered abroad, greeting. My brethren, count it all joy when ye
fall into divers temptations; knowing this, that the trying of your
faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work,
that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. If any of you
lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally,
and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him. But let him ask in
faith, nothing wavering; for he that wavereth is like a wave of the
sea, driven with the wind, and tossed. For let not that man think
that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. A double-minded man is
unstable in all his ways. Let the brother of low degree rejoice in
that he is exalted; but the rich in that he is made low; because as
the flower of the grass he shall pass away. For the sun is no
sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and
the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it
perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he is tried,
he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to
them that love him.
The Gospel
St. John 14.1-4
And Jesus said
unto his disciples, Let not your heart be troubled; ye believe in
God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions; if
it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for
you: and if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again,
and receive you unto myself, that where I am, there ye may be also.
And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. Thomas saith unto
him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest, and how can we know the
way? Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life:
no man cometh unto the Father but by me. If ye had known me, ye
should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him,
and have seen him. Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father,
and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time
with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? He that hath seen
me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the
Father? Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father
in me? The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself; but
the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. Believe me,
that I am in the Father, and the Father in me, or else believe me
for the very works' sake. Verily, verily I say unto you, He that
believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater
works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. And
whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father
may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask any thing in my name,
I will do it.
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