1st of Advent
Readings:
Jeremiah 33: 14-16; Ps 25: 1-9; 1 Thessalonians 3: 9-13; Luke 21: 25-36
Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness and to put on the armour light now in the time of this mortal life in which your Son Jesus Christ came to us in great humility; 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 is alive and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.