Reading:
1 Peter 1:13-25
"Therefore preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ."
Advent is a penitential season within the Holy Church. This is rather hard to believe with all of the hustle and bustle of this time of year. However, after watching how the Black Friday shoppers acted, we probably could all use a little repentance.
Holy Mother Church, calls the faithful to a time of quiet. She wants us to come into the Church where we here and prepare to once again experience the mystery of the Word made flesh. We are to be spending this time in the Scriptures, reading the Bible which is the greatest love story ever told. To hear again the angels announcing the Good News that God is with us and among us and is going to save us. This is our hope that we rest that God's grace towards us is only because of Jesus Christ.
This prayer is used daily in the Anglican Communion and thought it picked up on the theme of the reading of preparing our hearts and minds:
Almighty God, help us to 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 great day when He will come again to judge both the living and the dead, we might rise to the life immortal. Through Jesus Christ.
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