Ancient Collects Reworked
It is great, week by week, to explore prayers that we have been praying together, often for well over a thousand years. Here's the prayer for this First Advent Week.
Let us pray (in silence) [that we long for the advent of Christ]
Pause
God of hope,
give us grace to cast away the works of darkness,
and to put on the armour of light,
now in the time of this mortal life,
in the which your Son Jesus Christ came to us in great humility;
so that on the last day when he shall come again in his glorious majesty
to judge the living and the dead,
we may rise to the life immortal,
through him who lives and reigns with you
and the Holy Spirit now and for ever.
Amen.
And here is my commentary on that prayer.
Advent Resources
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