The First Sunday in Advent
by CCW | 3 December 2017 01:00
The collect for today, the First Sunday in Advent, being the Fourth Sunday before Christmas Day, from The Book of Common Prayer [1](Canadian, 1962):
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 Spirit, now and ever. Amen.
The Epistle: Romans 13:8-14[2]
The Gospel: St. Matthew 21:1-13[3]
[4]Artwork: Jacopo Zucchi (attrib.), Christ Expels the Merchants from the Temple, c. 1577-78. Oil on poplar panel, Kunsthistorisches Museum[5], Vienna.
- The Book of Common Prayer : http://prayerbook.ca/resources/bcponline/propers/#advent1
- Romans 13:8-14: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=romans%2013:8-14&version=ESVUK
- St. Matthew 21:1-13: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew%2021:1-13&version=ESVUK
- [Image]: http://christchurchwindsor.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Zucchi_ChristExpelsMerchants.jpg
- Kunsthistorisches Museum: https://www.khm.at/en/
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