Advent Week 1
December 3rd - 9th, 2023
Opening Words:
This section is read by a parent. Show your children how and when to make the sign of the cross. *
In the name of the + Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Amen
A voice of one calling: “In the wilderness prepare the way for the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God. (Isaiah 40:3 - NIV)
From Psalm 51
Parent: Open our lips, O Lord,
Everyone: and our mouths shall proclaim your praise.
Parent: Create in us clean hearts, O God,
Everyone: and renew a right spirit within us.
Parent: Cast us not away from your presence
Everyone: and take not your holy Spirit from us.
Parent: Give us the joy of your saving help again
Everyone: and sustain us with your bountiful Spirit.
Everyone: Glory to the + Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: *
as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen.
Readings:
Sunday: Matthew 21:1-13
Monday: Romans 13:8-14
Tuesday: Micah 4:1-7
Wednesday: Isaiah 28:14-22
Thursday: Psalm 25:1-9
Friday: Luke 1:5-25
Saturday: Matthew 25:1-13
Parent: The Word of the Lord
Everyone: Thanks be to God!
Intercessions & Lord’s Prayer:
Take a moment at this time to go around the table and ask everyone who they have on their hearts. A parent may lead this time of prayer or an older child.
When the prayers of intercession are over continue with the Lord’s Prayer.
Parent: Let us pray
Everyone: Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever and ever. Amen.
Collects:
Advent Week 1
Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the deeds of darkness and to put on the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life, in which your Son came to us in great humility; that on the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious Majesty to judge the living and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal; through him who is alive and reigns with you and the HOLY Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.
Prayers
Visit this place, O Lord, and drive far from it all snares of the enemy; let your holy angels dwell with us to preserve us in peace; and let your blessing be upon us always; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
The almighty and merciful Lord, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, bless us and keep us. Amen.
Lectionary Readings & Collects based on the 1928 Book of Common Prayer
* It is appropriate to make the sign of the cross where you see the + symbol.
