A.D. 2055 December 17

The Third Friday of Advent

Collects

O Lord Jesus Christ, who at thy first coming didst send thy messenger to prepare thy way before thee: Grant that the ministers and stewards of thy mysteries may likewise so prepare and make ready thy way, by turning the hearts of the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, that at thy second coming to judge the world we may be found an acceptable people in thy sight, who livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy Spirit, ever one God, 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

Table of Lessons

Morning Prayer
  • Psalm 86; 87; 88
  • Isaiah 47
  • Acts 17
Evening Prayer
  • Psalm 89
  • Isaiah 48
  • I Peter 5

Alternative Table of Lessons (1961) — Year II

Morning Prayer
  • Psalm 86; 87; 88
  • Isaiah 43:14–44:5
  • Mark 9:33–50
Evening Prayer
  • Psalm 89
  • Isaiah 44:6–23
  • Revelation 21:15–22:5

Liturgical Colours

Purple

O Adonai

Antiphons

O Adonai, and Leader of the house of Israel,
who appearedst in the bush to Moses in a flame of fire,
and gavest him the Law in Sinai:
Come and deliver us with an outstretched arm.

Liturgical Colours

Purple

References

Ember Day

Liturgical Colours

Purple

References