ADVENT Thursday of Week 1
I came across this alternative prayer for the first
Sunday of Advent. It captures the
longing and lament that penetrates even the best of times. It speaks honest.
Isn’t that Christian realism?
Faith, even when…
Hope, even though…
Love, even if…
It lives in that paradox…the both/and of justice dawning and our dark
deeds
Let us pray:
Above the clamor of our violence
your word of truth resounds,
O God of majesty and power.
Over nations enshrouded in despair
your justice dawns.
Grant your household
a discerning spirit and a watchful eye
to perceive the hour in which we live.
a discerning spirit and a watchful eye
to perceive the hour in which we live.
Hasten the advent of that day
when the weapons of war shall be banished,
our deeds of darkness cast off,
and all our scattered children gathered into one.
when the weapons of war shall be banished,
our deeds of darkness cast off,
and all our scattered children gathered into one.
We ask this through him whose coming is certain,
whose day draws near:
your son, our Lord Jesus Christ,
whose day draws near:
your son, our Lord Jesus Christ,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.
one God, for ever and ever.
(alternative
opening prayer from The Roman Missal 1973)
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