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HOLY SATURDAY

the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the furniture of them. And on the seventh day
God ended His work which He had made : and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He
had done.

Let us pray. V. Let us kneel.  R. Arise. O God, Who hast so marvellously created man and yet more
marvellously redeemed him : grant us, we beseech Thee, persevere against all to allurements to
sin by the use of right reason, so that we may merit to attain the joys of heaven. Through our
Lord ...

Second Lesson. Ex. 14, 24-31; 15, 1. And now the morning watch was come, and behold, the Lord,
looking upon the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, slew their host, and
overthrew the wheels of the chariots, and they were carried into the deep. And the Egyptians said,
Let us flee from Israel; for the Lord fighteth for them against us. And the Lord said to Moses,
Stretch forth thy hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their
chariots and horsemen. And when Moses had stretched forth his hand towards the sea, it returned at
the first break of day to the former place : and as the Egyptians were fleeing away, the waters
came upon them, and the Lord shut them up in the middle of the waves. And the waters returned, and
covered the chariots and the horsemen of all the army of Pharao who had come into the sea after
them : neither did there so much as one of them remain. But the children of Israel marched through
the midst of the sea upon dry land : and the waters were to them as a wall on the right hand and on
the left. And the Lord delivered Israel on that day out of the hands of the Egyptians. And they saw
the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore, and the mighty