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is the day which the Lord hath made, I will rejoice and be glad in it. It has been consecrated by the glorious resurrection of the ever-blessed Son of God our Saviour, who made all things new.

All days are Thine, Lord, and on all days shouldest Thou be served; but this is Thine in an especial manner, and with an especial service shouldest Thou be now worshipped. This is the soul’s day, to be filled with prayer and praise. Now should our prayers and praises be the most and heartiest, that the spirit of prayer may descend through all the spaces of the week, that we may abound with thanksgiving, that the well of our souls being now filled with the Spirit, the whole week may be watered therefrom.

But if this, O God, is the day of prayer to all Thy sons in the Gospel, what should it be to the ministers of Thy Word and Sacraments, who ought at all times to be men of prayer, the foremost in praying?