St.

Hilda’s Church, Cross Green

Sunday 5th February 2023

Proper 1

Solemn Evensong and

Benediction
Sung by The Pusey Consort
Responses: Ebdon
Canticles: Morley Fauxbourdons
Psalms: 1, 3 & 4
Hymns: 54 - O Trinity of blessed light
271 - Alleluia sing to Jesus

O ld Testament Reading:
Amos 2: 4-16 (KJ21)

Thus saith the Lord:

“For three transgressions of Judah, and
for four, I will not turn away the
punishment thereof, because they have
despised the law of the Lord, and have not
kept His commandments; and their lies
caused them to err, after which their
fathers have walked.
But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it
shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.”
Thus saith the Lord:
“For three transgressions of Israel, and
for four, I will not turn away the
punishment thereof, because they sold the
righteous for silver and the poor for a pair
of shoes.
They pant after the dust of the earth on
the head of the poor, and turn aside the
way of the meek; and a man and his father
will go in unto the same maid to profane
My holy name.

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 And they lay themselves down upon
clothes laid in pledge by every altar, and
they drink the wine of the condemned in
the house of their god.
“Yet I destroyed the Amorite before
them, whose height was like the height of
the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks;
yet I destroyed his fruit from above and his
roots from beneath.
Also I brought you up from the land of
Egypt, and led you forty years through the
wilderness to possess the land of the
Amorite.
And I raised up of your sons for
prophets, and of your young men for
Nazirites. Is it not even thus, O ye children
of Israel?” saith the Lord.
“But ye gave the Nazirites wine to drink,
and commanded the prophets, saying,
‘Prophesy not.’
“Behold, I am pressed under you, as a
cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.
Therefore the flight shall perish from the
swift, and the strong shall not strengthen
his force, neither shall the mighty deliver
himself.
Neither shall he stand that handleth the
bow, and he that is swift of foot shall not
deliver himself; neither shall he that rideth
the horse deliver himself.
And he that is courageous among the
mighty shall flee away naked in that day,”
saith the Lord.
Here Endeth the First Lesson.
N ew Testament Reading:
Ephesians 4: 17-32 (KJ21)
This I say, therefore, and testify in the
Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other
Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
having the understanding darkened, being
alienated from the life of God through the
ignorance that is in them because of the
blindness of their heart, who, being past
feeling, have given themselves over unto
lasciviousness to work all uncleanness with
greediness.
But ye have not so learned Christ, if so it
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be that ye have heard Him and have been
taught by Him as the truth is in Jesus: that
ye put off, concerning your former manner
of living, the old man which is corrupt
according to the deceitful lusts, and be
renewed in the spirit of your mind, and
that ye put on that new man, which after
God is created in righteousness and true
holiness.
Therefore, putting away lying, let every
man speak truth with his neighbor, for we
are members one of another. Be ye angry,
and sin not: let not the sun go down on
your wrath, neither give place to the devil.
Let him that stole steal no more, but
rather let him labor, working with his
hands the thing which is good, that he may
have to give to him that needeth.
Let no corrupt communication proceed
out of your mouth, but that which is good
to use in edifying, that it may minister
grace unto the hearers. And grieve not the
holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed
unto the day of redemption.
Let all bitterness and wrath and anger
and clamor and evil speaking be put away
from you, with all malice; and be ye kind
one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving
one another, even as God for Christ’s sake
hath forgiven you.
Here Endeth the Second Lesson.