CW* 2 before Advent

The Second Sunday before Advent

https://almanac.oremus.org/2023-11-19

Red or Green

Principal Service
Zephaniah 1.7,12-18
Psalm 90.1-8[9-11]12*
1 Thessalonians 5.1-11
Matthew 25.14-30

Third Service
Psalm 98
Daniel 10.19-21
Revelation 4

Second Service
Psalm 89.19-37*
1 Kings 1.15-40
(or 1-40)
Revelation 1.4-18
Gospel at Holy Communion:
Luke 9.1-6

Collect

Heavenly Father,
whose blessed Son was revealed
to destroy the works of the devil
and to make us the children of God and heirs of eternal life:
grant that we, having this hope,
may purify ourselves even as he is pure;
that when he shall appear in power and great glory
we may be made like him in his eternal and glorious kingdom;
where he is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.

Post Communion

Gracious Lord,
in this holy sacrament
you give substance to our hope:
bring us at the last
to that fullness of life for which we long;
through Jesus Christ our Saviour.

Additional Collect

Heavenly Lord,
you long for the world’s salvation:
stir us from apathy,
restrain us from excess
and revive in us new hope
that all creation will one day be healed
in Jesus Christ our Lord.

BCP: The Twenty-fourth Sunday after Trinity

BCP Holy Communion

Isaiah 55.6-11
Psalm 85.1-7
BCP Collect

O Lord, we beseech thee, absolve thy people from their offences; that through thy bountiful goodness we may all be delivered from the bands of those sins, which by our frailty we have committed: Grant this, O heavenly Father, for Jesus Christ’s sake, our blessed Lord and Saviour.