A.D. 1953 December 20
The Fourth Sunday in 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 the 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
Epistles and Gospels
Table of Lessons
Morning Prayer
Evening Prayer
Alternative Table of Lessons (1961) — Year II
Morning Prayer
Evening Prayer
Liturgical Colours
Purple
O Oriens
Antiphons
O Day-spring.
Brightness of Light Everlasting, and Sun of Righteousness:
Come and enlighten him that sitteth in darkness and the shadow of death.
Liturgical Colours
Purple