Advent Week 1

Family Prayer: November 27th - December 3rd, 2022

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THE LITURGY

These devotions follow the basic structure of the Daily Office of the Church and are particularly appropriate for families with young children.

The Reading and the Collect may be read by one person, and the other parts said in unison, or in some other convenient manner.

OPENING SENTENCE

O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth shall show forth your praise.

PSALM 51:15

THE PSALM

PSALM 51:10-12

10 Create in me a clean heart, O God,*

and renew a right spirit within me.

11 Cast me not away from your presence,*

and take not your holy Spirit from me.

12 O give me the comfort of your help again,*

and sustain me with your willing Spirit.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit; *

as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end.

Amen.

A WEEKLY MEMORY VERSE

ROMANS 15:13

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.

DAILY GOSPEL READING

Sun (11.27) - Matthew 25:1-13

Mon (11.28) - Luke 20:1-8

Tues (11.29) - Luke 20:9-18

Wed (11.30) (Saint Andrew) - Matt 4:18-22

Thurs (12.1) - Luke 20:27-40

Fri (12.2) - Luke 20:41-21:4

Sat (12.3) - Luke 21:5-19

INTERCESSIONS

Take time to ask everyone at your table who they would like to pray for this day.

PRAYER THOUGHTS: This week’s theme is hope. What is something that you are hoping for this year?

How has the grace of Christ given you hope this morning?

THE LORD'S PRAYER

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,

for ever and ever. Amen.

COLLECTS

ADVENT WEEK 1

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.

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Collects from the 2019 Book of Common Prayer

OT and NT Readings from the 2016 ESV