Looking to the Advent

The name “Advent” is derived from the Latin adventus, meaning “coming.” Advent is the first season of the Church calendar, starting four Sundays before Christmas. During Advent, the Church prepares for Christ’s Second Coming even as it prepares for the remembrance of his Nativity. Thus, as with Lent, it is a time of preparation and introspection, of devout and joyful expectation.

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.

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