speak the truth, boldly rebuke vice, and patiently suffer for the truth’s sake

the protection of thy good providence

enable, we pray, all bishops and pastors diligently to preach your holy word

Good Lord, deliver us.

by thy mighty aid be defended and comforted in all dangers

For thine is the kingdom

without whom nothing is strong, nothing is holy

multiply upon us thy mercy

The Lord be with you.

the course of this world may be so peaceably ordered by thy governance

be evermore ready to follow thy holy commandments

And the Gospel ended, shall be sung or said the Creed following, the people still standing as before.

Pour into our hearts such love toward thee

the author and giver of all good things

We humbly beseech thee to put away from us all hurtful things

Did you know? In August 1834, LMS missionary Lancelot Threlkeld and local elder Biraban completed a translation of a selection of #BCP services into Awabakal, the Indigenous language of the Lake Macquarie area of NSW. This is the only such translation we know of in NSW.

the spirit to think and do always such things as be rightful

The Lord is King, and hath put on glorious apparel

be open to the prayers of thy humble servants

grant that your Church may love that word, and both preach and receive it