Observing Advent is a small booklet produced by ECC. We offer it on this site and also to download in pdf form. If you have any comments, please let us know. We would like to hear from you and to include you in our wider community.

As Advent progresses, we will add material to the text of the downloadable booklet. Some will be clarifications but there will also be background, additional prayers, history, etc. Do not hesitate to suggest additions. We will make every effort to include them. In this way the website will be a complement to the printed booklet and also a discussion space about how to use it.

Introduction

The First Week in Advent

The Second Week in Advent

The Third Week in Advent

The Fourth Week in Advent

Magnificat

O Antiphons

Form for Evening Prayer

Notes on Images

 

Veniet Dominus, et non tardabit, et illuminabit abscondita tenebrarum,
et manifestabit se ad omnes gentes, alleluja.

The Lord will surely come and will not tarry, and will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will be made manifest to all mankind, alleluia.

monastic antiphon, prime

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

Booklet in pdf form, set up for printing

Observing Advent Cover

Observing Advent text

Note: We printed the cover on a textured iris-colored paper and the text pages on white paper with enough weight to prevent the images from bleeding through.