The
First Sunday of Advent.
Psalm 8.
Domine,
Dominus noster.
O LORD our Governor, how
excellent is thy Name in all the world; * thou that hast set thy glory above
the heavens!
2 Out of the mouth of very
babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength, because of thine enemies, *
that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
3 When I consider thy
heavens, even the work of thy fingers; * the moon and the stars which thou hast
ordained;
4 What is man, that thou
art mindful of him? * and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
5 Thou madest him lower
than the angels, * to crown him with glory and worship.
6 Thou makest him to have
dominion of the works of thy hands; * and thou hast put all things in
subjection under his feet:
7 All sheep and oxen; *
yea, and the beasts of the field;
8 The fowls of the air, and
the fishes of the sea; * and whatsoever walketh through the paths of the seas.
9 O Lord our Governor, *
how excellent is thy Name in all the world!
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.
Old Testament Reading: Isaiah 28.14-22
Psalter 8, 50; 96, 97
Epistle Reading: Romans 13.8-14
Gospel Reading: Matthew 21.1-13
This last week I wrote to my congregation about a Collect that shows up in the 1928-BCP, how and why I tweaked it, and how it could be used. You can find my thoughts here: “O Most Loving Heavenly Father.”
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