Collects, Epistles and Gospels
for the Advent Season
for the Advent Season
The First Sunday in Advent.
Missal Propers
The Collect.
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.
¶ This Collect is to be repeated every day,
after the other Collects in Advent, until Christmas Day.
The Epistle. Romans xiii. 8.
OWE no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that
loveth another hath fulfilled the law. For this, Thou shalt not
commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou
shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there
be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this
saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Love
worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling
of the law. And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time
to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when
we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let
us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on
the armour of light. Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not
in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness,
not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ,
and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
WHEN they drew nigh unto Jerusalem, and were come to Bethphage, unto the mount of Olives, then sent Jesus two disciples, saying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and straightway ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose them, and bring them unto me. And if any man say ought unto you, ye shall say, The Lord hath need of them; and straightway he will send them. All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass. And the disciples went, and did as Jesus commanded them, and brought the ass, and the colt, and put on them their clothes, and they set him thereon. And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way; others cut down branches from the trees, and strawed them in the way. And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name 'of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest. And when he was come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, Who is this? And the multitude said, This is Jesus the prophet of Nazareth of Galilee. And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money-changers, and the seats of them that sold doves, and said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves
Wake, awake! for night is flying - Sleepers wake 3
Rejoice, rejoice believers - Greenland 4
Lo! He comes with clouds descending - St. Thornas 5
Lo! He conies with clouds descending - Helmsley 5
Creator of the stars of night- Conditor Alme 6
Creator of the stars of night - Breslau 6
O Word, that goest forth on high - Verbum Supernum 8
O Word, that goest forth on high - Rex gloriose 8
Hark a Thrilling Voice is Sounding - Merton 9
The King shall come - St. Stephen 11
My God Thy Table Now is Spread - Rockingham 203
Only Begotten (entrance or Gloria Sub.) - Iste Confessor 228
Only Begotten (entrance or Gloria Sub.) - Rouen 228
The Lord will come and not be slow - York 312
Hosanna to the living Lord - Hosanna 318
Day of Wrath! O Day of Mourning (sequence) - Dies Irae 468
Lift Up Your Heads Ye Mighty Gates - Truro 484