The
First Sunday of Advent.
Venite, exultemus Domino.
Psalm xcv.
O COME, let us sing unto the Lord : let us heartily rejoice
in the strength of our salvation.
Let us come before his presence
with thanksgiving : and show ourselves glad in him with Psalms.
For the Lord is a great God :
and a great King above all gods.
In his hand are all the corners
of the earth : and the strength of the hills is his also.
The sea is his, and he made it
: and his hands prepared the dry land.
O come, let us worship and fall
down : and kneel before the Lord our Maker.
For he is the Lord our God :
and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.
To day if ye will hear his
voice, harden not your hearts : as in the provocation, and as in the day of
temptation in the wilderness;
When your fathers tempted me :
proved me, and saw my works.
Forty years long was I grieved
with this generation, and said : It is a people that do err in their heart, and
they have not known my ways.
Unto whom I sware in my wrath
that they should not enter into my rest.
Glory be to the Father, and to
the Son : and to the Holy Ghost;
As it was in the beginning, is
now, and ever shall be : world without end. Amen.
The Collect.
[This Collect is to be repeated every day, with the other Collects
in Advent, until Christmas-Eve.]
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 his glorious majesty to judge both the quick
and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal; through him who liveth and
reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
Stir up, we beseech thee, Thy power, O Lord and come : that by Thy protection
we may be rescued from the threatening perils of our sins, and the sins of
others; and saved by Thy mighty deliverance; who livest and reignest with the
Father and the Holy Ghost ; ever one God, world without end. Amen.
(This Collect was taken and adapted from “The
Brotherhood Prayer Book” [Lutheran]. You can find out more at http://llpb.us/).
Old Testament Reading: Isaiah 28.14-22
Psalter 8, 50; 96, 97
Epistle Reading: Romans 13.8-14
Gospel Reading: Matthew 21.1-13
For 2018 my plan is to modify our weekly
email in two ways: (1) Instead of using a portion from the Psalter at the
beginning, I will use a canticle. I will work through the canticles in Morning
Prayer and then Evening Prayer in the 1662 BCP. I will supplement them with
other canticles as the year progresses. (2) I will be adding a second Collect
taken from The Brotherhood Prayer Book, 2nd ed. Though this is a
Lutheran prayer book, it takes Morning Prayer, Evening Prayer, Psalms (from the
KJV), and other pieces, and sets them to Gregorian Chant. I have used this
prayer book for nearly a decade. For future years if you have other suggestions
for Collects, etc. please let me know.
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