first sunday of advent

Happy New Year! (tomorrow, that is.) I'll be posting some links that might be helpful for those celebrating Advent over there to the right. Hopefully I'll have time to post some thoughts/reflections as well. In the mean time, here is pre- and post-communion prayer that I've modified from the Anglican Common Worship:

Pre-Communion

Almighty God,

give us grace to cast away the works of darkness

and to put on the armor of light,

which we so desperately need now, in our mortality,

in which your son, King Jesus, came to us in great humility;

that on the last day

when he is present in kingly splendor to judge the living and the dead,

we may be raised in new life with your gift of immortality;

through him who is alive and reigns over all with you,

in the unity of the holy Spirit,

one god, now and forever.

Communion

Post-Communion

O Lord, our god,

make us watchful and keep us faithful

as we await the presence of your son—our lord;

that, when he shall appear,

he may not find us sleeping in our brokeness/sin

but active in the good works you have prepared for us to do

and joyful in a right understanding of your greatness;

through King Jesus, our lord.