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The collect for today, the 1st Sunday in Advent, from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer:
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.
The Epistle: Romans 13:8-14
The Gospel: St Matthew 21:1-13
[...] An Advent meditation from Archbishop Terry Buckle By StatGuy The latest issue of Anglican Planet carries an Advent meditation by The Most Reverend Terry Buckle, Archbishop of Yukon and Metropolitan of the Ecclesiastical Province of BC and Yukon, based on the collect for the First Sunday in Advent. In accordance with the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, the Advent collect is to be repeated every day, with the other collects in Advent, until Christmas-Eve. 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. [...]