A.D. 2011 December 22
The Fourth Thursday of Advent
Collects
O Lord, raise up (we pray thee) thy power, and come among us, and with great might succour us; that whereas, through our sins and wickedness, we are sore let and hindered in running the race that is set before us, thy bountiful grace and mercy may speedily help and deliver us; through the satisfaction of thy Son our Lord, to whom with thee and he Holy Ghost be honour and glory, world without end. Amen.
and
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, now and ever. Amen.
Lessons
Revised Table of Lessons (1922)
Morning Prayer
Evening Prayer
Liturgical Colours
Purple
O Emmanuel
Antiphons
O Emmanuel, our King and Lawgiver,
the Desire of all nations, and their Salvation:
Come and save us. O Lord our God.
Liturgical Colours
Purple