A.D. 2025 December 18

The Third Thursday of Advent

Collects

O Lord Jesus Christ, you sent your messengers the prophets to preach repentance and prepare the way for our salvation: Grant that the ministers and stewards of your mysteries may likewise make ready your way, by turning the hearts of the disobedient toward the wisdom of the just, that at your second coming to judge the world, we may be found a people acceptable in your sight; for with the Father and the Holy Spirit you live and reign, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Lessons

Daily Office Lectionary

Morning Prayer
Evening Prayer

Liturgical Colors

Purple

O Radix Jesse

Antiphons

O Root of Jesse, standing as a sign among the peoples;
before you kings will shut their mouths,
to you the nations will make their prayer:
Come and deliver us, and delay no longer.

Liturgical Colors

Purple

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