The Christian Year
Transcribed from the 1887 Cassell & Company edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
CASSELL’S NATIONAL LIBRARY.
BY THE REV. JOHN KEBLE.
CASSELL & COMPANY, Limited:
LONDON , PARIS , NEW YORK & MELBOURNE .
1887.
John Keble, two years older than his friend Dr. Arnold of Rugby, three years older than Thomas Carlyle, and nine years older than John Henry Newman, was born in 1792, at Fairford in Gloucestershire. He was born in his father’s parsonage, and educated at home by his father till he went to college. His father then entered him at his own college at Oxford, Corpus Christi. Thoroughly trained, Keble obtained high reputation at his University for character and scholarship, and became a Fellow of Oriel. After some years he gave up work in the University, though he could not divest himself of a large influence there for good, returned home to his old father, who required help in his ministry, and undertook for his the duty of two little curacies. The father lived on to the age of ninety. John Keble’s love for God and his devotion to the Church had often been expressed in verse. On days which the Church specially celebrated, he had from time to time written short poems to utter from the heart his own devout sense of their spiritual use and meaning. As the number of these poems increased, the desire rose to follow in like manner the while course of the Christian Year as it was marked for the people by the sequence of church services, which had been arranged to bring in due order before the minds of Christian worshippers all the foundations of their faith, and all the elements of a religious life. A book of poems, breathing faith and worship at all points, and in all attitudes of heavenward contemplation, within the circle of the Christian Year, would, he hoped, restore in many minds to many a benumbed form life and energy.
In 1825, while the poems of the Christian Year were gradually being shaped into a single work, a brother became able to relieve John Keble in that pious care for which his father had drawn him away from a great University career, and he then went to a curacy at Hursley, four or five miles from Winchester.
John Keble
---
INTRODUCTION.
DEDICATION.
THE CHRISTIAN YEAR.
Morning.
Evening.
Advent Sunday.
Second Sunday in Advent.
Third Sunday in Advent.
Fourth Sunday in Advent.
Christmas Day.
St. Stephen’s Day.
St. John’s Day.
The Holy Innocents.
First Sunday after Christmas.
The Circumcision of Christ.
Second Sunday after Christmas.
The Epiphany.
First Sunday after Epiphany.
Second Sunday after Epiphany.
Third Sunday after Epiphany.
Fourth Sunday after Epiphany.
Fifth Sunday after Epiphany.
Sixth Sunday after Epiphany.
Septuagesima Sunday.
Sexagesima Sunday.
Quinquagesima Sunday.
Ash Wednesday.
First Sunday in Lent.
Second Sunday in Lent.
Third Sunday in Lent.
Fourth Sunday in Lent.
Fifth Sunday in Lent.
Palm Sunday.
Monday before Easter.
Tuesday before Easter.
Wednesday before Easter.
Thursday before Easter.
Good Friday.
Easter Eve.
Easter Day.
Monday in Easter Week.
Tuesday in Easter Week.
First Sunday after Easter.
Second Sunday after Easter.
Third Sunday after Easter.
Fourth Sunday after Easter.
Ascension Day.
Sunday after Ascension.
Whitsunday.
Monday in Whitsun-week.
Tuesday in Whitsun-week.
Trinity Sunday.
First Sunday after Trinity.
Second Sunday after Trinity.
Third Sunday after Trinity.
Fourth Sunday after Trinity.
Fifth Sunday after Trinity.
Sixth Sunday after Trinity.
Seventh Sunday after Trinity.
Eight Sunday after Trinity.
Ninth Sunday after Trinity.
Tenth Sunday after Trinity.
Eleventh Sunday after Trinity.
Twelfth Sunday after Trinity.
Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity.
Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity.
Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity.
Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity.
Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity.
Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity.
Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity.
Twentieth Sunday after Trinity.
Twenty-first Sunday after Trinity.
Twenty-Second Sunday after Trinity.
Twenty-third Sunday after Trinity.
Twenty-fourth Sunday after Trinity.
Twenty-fifth Sunday after Trinity.
Sunday next before Advent.
St. Andrew’s Day
St. Thomas’ Day.
The Conversion of St. Paul.
The Purification.
St. Matthias’ Day.
The Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
St. Mark’s Day.
St. Philip and St. James.
St. Barnabas.
St. John Baptist’s Day.
St. Peter’s Day.
St. James’s Day.
St. Bartholomew.
St. Matthew.
St. Michael and All Angels.
St. Luke.
St. Simon and St. Jude.
All Saints’ Day.
Holy Communion.
Holy Baptism.
Catechism.
Confirmation.
Matrimony.
Visitation and Communion of the Sick.
Burial of the Dead.
Churching of Women.
Commination.
Forms of Prayer to be used at Sea.
Gunpowder Treason.
King Charles the Martyr.
The Restoration of the Royal Family.
The Accession.
Ordination.
