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Our Morning Offering – 19 December

A 10th Century Catholic Advent Prayer

Unknown Author

You are our eternal salvation, The unfailing light of the world. Light everlasting, You are truly our redemption. Grieving that the human race was perishing through the tempter’s power, without leaving the heights You came to the depths in Your loving kindness. Readily taking our humanity by Your gracious will, You saved all earthly creatures, long since lost, Restoring joy to the world. Redeem our souls and bodies, O Christ, and so possess us as Your shining dwellings. By Your first coming, make us righteous; At Your second coming, set us free: So that, when the world is filled with light and You judge all things, We may be clad in spotless robes and follow in Your steps, O King, Into the heavenly hall.   Amen

Our Morning Offering – 11 December – Tuesday of the Second week of Advent

Grant us Your Light, O Lord By St Bede (673-735) Father and Doctor of the Church (From ‘On the Apocalypse’)

Grant us Your light, O Lord, so that the darkness of our hearts, may wholly pass away and we may come at last, to the light of Christ. For Christ is that morning star, who, when the night of this world has passed, brings to His saints, the promised light of life and opens to them, everlasting day. Amen

Our Morning Offering – Wednesday of the First Week of Advent

ADVENT PRAYER – GOD OF HOPE

God of hope, who brought love into this world, be the love that dwells between us. God of hope, who brought peace into this world, be the peace that dwells between us. God of hope, who brought joy into this world, be the joy that dwells between us. God of hope, the rock we stand upon, be the centre, the focus of our lives always and particularly this Advent time. Through Him who is our hope, our joy, our love, our peace, in union with the Holy Spirit, one God forever, amen.

Our Morning Offering – 5 December – A Great and Mighty Wonder

Our Morning Offering – 5 December – The Second Sunday of Advent A Great and Mighty WonderBy St Germanus (c 640-c 733) A great and mighty wonder,a glorious mystery,a Virgin bears an Infantwho veils His Deity.Refrain:Proclaim the Saviour’s birth,“To God on high be gloryand peace to all the earth!”The Word becomes incarnateand yet remains on high,and Cherubim sing anthemsto shepherds from the sky.…

Our Morning Offering – 2 December – Come, Sun and Saviour

Our Morning Offering – 2 December – Wednesday of the First Week of Advent

Come, Sun and Saviour 8th Century Catholic Advent Prayer/Hymn

Come, Sun and Saviour, to embrace our gloomy world, i’s weary race, As groom to bride, as bride to groom: The wedding chamber, Mary’s womb. At Your great Name, O Jesus, now All knees must bend, all hearts must bow, All things on earth with one accord, Like those in…

Our Morning Offering – 2 December – Come, Sun and Saviour

Our Morning Offering – 2 December – Wednesday of the First Week of Advent

Come, Sun and Saviour 8th Century Catholic Advent Prayer/Hymn

Come, Sun and Saviour, to embrace our gloomy world, i’s weary race, As groom to bride, as bride to groom: The wedding chamber, Mary’s womb. At Your great Name, O Jesus, now All knees must bend, all hearts must bow, All things on earth with one accord, Like those in…