Happy New Year
December 2, 2012 3 Comments
As Advent begins:
On this First Sunday of Advent:
Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness, and put on the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life in which your 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 living and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal; through him who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.
- Amen.
And so our work, in the Lord, begins anew…
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Happy New Year!
A beautiful Prayer for a Blessed and Holy Advent…and into the New (liturgical) Year – Thank You!
Just seems to be…off…just a wee bit without the “thy Son”, “the quick and the dead”, and “liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost”. And even my American Orthodox BCP has “armour”!