1st Day of Advent

"All heaven and earth resound with that subtle and delicately balanced truth that the old paths are the best paths after all."
- J.C. Ryle

Prayer for the First Sunday of Advent
Book of Common Prayer, 1789

Almighty God, give us grace
that we may cast away the works of darkness,
and put upon us the armor 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,
one God, now and for ever. Amen.