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The Annunciation of Our Lord Jesus Christ to the Blessed Virgin Mary
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    The Annunciation

    March 25

    Pour your grace into our hearts, O Lord, that we who have known the incarnation of your Son Jesus Christ, announced by an angel to the Virgin Mary, may by his cross and passion be brought to the glory of his resurrection; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

    Pour your grace into our hearts, O Lord, that we who have known the incarnation of your Son Jesus Christ, announced by an angel to the Virgin Mary, may byhis cross and passion be brought to the glory of his resurrection; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

    Psalms

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    Benedixisti, DomineBCP p. 708

    1You have been gracious to your land, O Lord, *you have restored the good fortune of Jacob.

    2You have forgiven the iniquity of your people *and blotted out all their sins.

    3You have withdrawn all your fury *and turned yourself from your wrathful indignation.

    4Restore us then, O God our Savior; *let your anger depart from us.

    5Will you be displeased with us for ever? *will you prolong your anger from age to age?

    6Will you not give us life again, *that your people may rejoice in you?

    7Show us your mercy, O Lord, *and grant us your salvation.

    8I will listen to what the Lord God is saying, *for he is speaking peace to his faithful people and to those who turn their hearts to him.

    9Truly, his salvation is very near to those who fear him, *that his glory may dwell in our land.

    10Mercy and truth have met together; *righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

    11Truth shall spring up from the earth, *and righteousness shall look down from heaven.

    12The Lord will indeed grant prosperity, *and our land will yield its increase.

    13Righteousness shall go before him, *and peace shall be a pathway for his feet.

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    Fundamenta ejusBCP p. 711

    1On the holy mountain stands the city he has founded; *the Lord loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

    2Glorious things are spoken of you, *O city of our God.

    3I count Egypt and Babylon among those who know me; *behold Philistia, Tyre, and Ethiopia: in Zion were they born.

    4Of Zion it shall be said, “Everyone was born in her, *and the Most High himself shall sustain her.”

    5The Lord will record as he enrolls the peoples, *“These also were born there.”

    6The singers and the dancers will say, *“All my fresh springs are in you.”

    Daily Office Readings

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    Isa. 52:7-12

    7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of the messenger who announces peace, who brings good news, who announces salvation, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns.” 8 Listen! Your sentinels lift up their voices, together they sing for joy; for in plain sight they see the return of the Lord to Zion. 9 Break forth together into singing, you ruins of Jerusalem; for the Lord has comforted his people, he has redeemed Jerusalem. 10 The Lord has bared his holy arm before the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God. 11 Depart, depart, go out from there! Touch no unclean thing; go out from the midst of it, purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of the Lord. 12 For you shall not go out in haste, and you shall not go in flight; for the Lord will go before you, and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.

    Hebrews 2:5-10

    5 Now God did not subject the coming world, about which we are speaking, to angels. 6 But someone has testified somewhere, “What are human beings that you are mindful of them, or mortals, that you care for them? 7 You have made them for a little while lower than the angels; you have crowned them with glory and honor, 8 subjecting all things under their feet.” Now in subjecting all things to them, God left nothing outside their control. As it is, we do not yet see everything in subjection to them, 9 but we do see Jesus, who for a little while was made lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone. 10 It was fitting that God, for whom and through whom all things exist, in bringing many children to glory, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through sufferings.