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Morning and Evening Prayers for the Fourth Week in Advent

Sunday Evening     Dec. 20th, Katharina von Bora Luther Lord God, You blessed your teacher Martin Luther with a good wife.  As a good wife is greater than riches, I give you thanks for the good wives and their families of my church.  Bless their labors and quiet their cares.  Make them faithful and true,Continue reading “Morning and Evening Prayers for the Fourth Week in Advent”

Morning and Evening Prayers for the Third Week of Advent

Sunday Evening     Dec. 13th St. Lucy Almighty God, I give you thanks for the witness of your servant Lucy, who served the poor in dark places, being herself a light of your mercy.  Hold her up in my heart, that I would honor her as You do, giving honor to the saints–not as theContinue reading “Morning and Evening Prayers for the Third Week of Advent”

St. Cyril of Jerusalem on Advent

We preach not one advent only of Christ, but a second also, far more glorious than the former. For the former gave a view of His patience; but the latter brings with it the crown of a divine kingdom. For all things, for the most part, are twofold in our Lord Jesus Christ: a twofold generation; one, of God, beforeContinue reading “St. Cyril of Jerusalem on Advent”

Passing Away by Christina Rossetti

Passing away, saith the World, passing away:Changes, beauty, and youth, sapped day by day:Thy life never continueth in one stay.Is the eye waxen dim, is the dark hair changing to greyThat hath won neither laurel nor bay?I shall clothe myself in Spring and bud in May:Thou, root-stricken, shalt not rebuild thy decayOn my bosom forContinue reading “Passing Away by Christina Rossetti”

A Collect for Advent I

Almighty God, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life, in which Thy Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when He shall come again in hisContinue reading “A Collect for Advent I”

R. S. Thomas – The Coming

And God held in his handA small globe. Look, he said.The son looked. Far off,As through water, he sawA scorched land of fierceColour. The light burnedThere; crusted buildingsCast their shadows: a brightSerpent, A riverUncoiled itself, radiantWith slime. On a bareHill a bare tree saddenedThe sky. Many peopleHeld out their thin armsTo it, as though waitingForContinue reading “R. S. Thomas – The Coming”

Tractarians on Advent

The name Advent, which means Coming, is given to the four Sundays immediately before Christmas Day, the feast which celebrates our Lord’s coming in the flesh to suffer for us. This season, then, is set apart by the Church, in accordance with ancient and venerable usage, in the first place, to prepare the minds ofContinue reading “Tractarians on Advent”

A Prayer for Advent II

Lord Jesus, who once came into the world to save sinners, and who will come again to judge the quick and the dead, let us in repentance and faith find Thee in Thy manger and on the cross, so that we may see Thee with joy upon the clouds and on Thy throne. C.F.W Walther,Continue reading “A Prayer for Advent II”