The light of God’s approaching deliverance

Collect: Third Sunday in Advent

Stir up your prayer , O Lord, and with great might come among us; and, because we are sorely hindered by our sins, let your bountiful grace and mercy speedily help and deliver us; through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom, with you and the Holy Spirit, be honor and glory, now and forever.  Amen

Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11  . . .  salvation glows like a torch flaring in darkness and like dawn breaking the night.

Psalm 126 . . . A Prayer for Level Ground

or

The Magnificat . . . The Song Of Mary

1 Thessalonians 5:16-24 . . . In anticipation of this coming light, Paul exhorts believers to persist in holiness, confident that God alone will sanctify them

John 1:6-8, 19-28 . . . John the Baptist announces the coming of Jesus, the true light in the midst of all our darkness.

A Sermon by Father Frank Pavone, “Rejoice”