A.D. 2013 December 1

The First Sunday of Advent (Advent Sunday)

*Isaiah Wall*, 1948, Ralph Bunche Park, New York.

Collects

Almighty God, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armor 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.

Lessons

Revised Common Lectionary — Year A

Daily Office Lectionary — Year Two

Morning Prayer

Evening Prayer

Other lectionaries

1979 Lectionary — Year A

Prefaces

Because thou didst send thy beloved Son to redeem us from sin and death, and to make us heirs in him of everlasting life; that when he shall come again in power and great triumph to judge the world, we may without shame or fear rejoice to behold his appearing.