2022-12-04 - Pew Sheet - Advent 2 Year A

Pharisees.
And they asked him, and said unto him,

“Why dost thou baptize then if thou art
not that Christ, nor Elijah, neither that
Prophet?”
John answered them, saying, “I baptize
with water, but there standeth One among
you whom ye know not. He it is who, St. Hilda’s Church, Cross Green
coming after me, is preferred before me,
whose shoe’s strap I am not worthy to Sunday 4th December 2022
unloose.”
These things were done in Bethabara Advent 2
beyond the Jordan, where John was
baptizing.
Here endeth the second lesson. Solemn Evensong and
Benediction
Sung by The Pusey Consort
Responses: Ebdon
Canticles: Lindley Fauxbourdons
Psalms: 11 & 28
Hymns: 2 - O heavenly Word of God
9 - Lo! he comes with clouds
descending
O ld Testament Reading:
1 Kings 18:17-39 (KJ21)
And it came to pass, when Ahab saw

Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, “Art thou
he that troubleth Israel?”
And he answered, “I have not troubled
Israel, but thou and thy father’s house, in
that ye have forsaken the commandments
of the Lord, and thou hast followed the
Baalim. Now therefore, send and gather to
me all Israel unto Mount Carmel, and the
prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty,
and the prophets of the Asherah four
hundred, who eat at Jezebel’s table.”
So Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel,
and gathered the prophets together unto
Mount Carmel. And Elijah came unto all
the people and said,
“How long halt ye between two opinions?
If the Lord be God, follow Him; but if Baal,
then follow him.” And the people
answered him not a word.
Then said Elijah unto the people, “I, even I
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only, remain a prophet of the Lord, but two measures of seed. And he put the
Baal’s prophets are four hundred and fifty wood in order, and cut the bullock in
men. Let them therefore give us two pieces, and laid him on the wood and said,
bullocks. And let them choose one bullock “Fill four barrels with water, and pour it on
for themselves and cut it in pieces, and lay the burnt sacrifice and on the wood.”
it on wood and put no fire under it; and I And he said, “Do it the second time.” And
will dress the other bullock, and lay it on they did it the second time.
wood, and put no fire under it. And call ye And he said, “Do it the third time.” And
on the name of your gods, and I will call on they did it the third time.
the name of the Lord; and the God that And the water ran round about the altar;
answereth by fire, let Him be God.” and he filled the trench also with water.
And all the people answered and said, “It is And it came to pass at the time of the
well spoken.” offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah
And Elijah said unto the prophets of Baal, the prophet came near and said,
“Choose you one bullock for yourselves “Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel,
and dress it first, for ye are many; and call let it be known this day that Thou art God
on the name of your gods, but put no fire in Israel, and that I am Thy servant, and
under it.” that I have done all these things at Thy
And they took the bullock which was given word. Hear me, O Lord! Hear me, that this
them, and they dressed it, and called on people may know that Thou art
the name of Baal from morning even until the Lord God, and that Thou hast turned
noon, saying, “O Baal, hear us!” their heart back again.”
But there was no voice, nor any that Then the fire of the Lord fell and
answered. And they leaped upon the altar consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the
which was made. wood and the stones and the dust, and
And it came to pass at noon that Elijah licked up the water that was in the trench.
mocked them and said, “Cry aloud, for he And when all the people saw it, they fell on
is a god! Either he is talking, or he is their faces and they said, “The Lord, He is
pursuing, or he is on a journey, or perhaps the God! The Lord, He is the God!”
he sleepeth and must be awakened.” Here endeth the first lesson.
And they cried aloud, and cut themselves
according to their manner with knives and
lancets, till the blood gushed out upon
them.
And it came to pass, when midday was
N ew Testament Reading:
John 1:19-28 (KJ21)
past, and they prophesied until the time of And this is the record of John, when the
the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Jews sent priests and Levites from
there was neither voice, nor any to answer, Jerusalem to ask him, “Who art thou?”
nor any that regarded. And he confessed and denied not, but
And Elijah said unto all the people, “Come confessed, “I am not the Christ.”
near unto me.” And all the people came And they asked him, “What then? Art thou
near unto him. Elijah?”
And he repaired the altar of the Lord that And he said, “I am not.”
was broken down. And Elijah took twelve “Art thou that Prophet?”
stones, according to the number of the And he answered, “No.”
tribes of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the Then said they unto him, “Who art thou,
word of the Lord came, saying, “Israel shall that we may give an answer to those who
be thy name.” sent us? What sayest thou of thyself?”
And with the stones he built an altar in the He said, “I am ‘the voice of one crying in
name of the Lord, and he made a trench the wilderness, “Make straight the way of
about the altar as great as would contain the Lord,”’ as said the prophet Isaiah.”
And those who were sent were of the
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Pharisees.

And they asked him, and said unto him,

And it came to pass, when Ahab saw

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