The First Week in Advent
Scripture
Watch – for you do not know when the master of the house will come,
in the evening, or at midnight, or at cockcrow, or in the morning –
lest he come suddenly and find you asleep.
Mark 13:35,36
Collect
Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness and put
on the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life in which your
Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility, that in the last
day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty to judge both the
living and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal, through him who
lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.
Amen.
Light one candle.
Magnificat
Let us bless the Lord. Thanks be to God.
