November 30, 2021

In Marilu’s excellent sermon, she noted that Christians are Advent people. She said that we are people who know that things are amiss in the world and ourselves. We know that fixing what is amiss is beyond our power. But we also know the One who can and will make all things right. And it is for Him that we wait.

So says the prophet Jeremiah from our Advent 1 reading. “The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will fulfill the promise I made to the house of Israel and the house of Judah. In those days and at that time I will cause a righteous Branch to spring up for David; and he shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. In those days Judah will be saved and Jerusalem will live in safety. And this is the name by which it will be called: "The Lord is our righteousness." (Jeremiah 33: 14-16)

Come, Lord Jesus.

“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.” (First Sunday of Advent – BCP)