The First Sunday in Advent
The collect for today, the 1st Sunday in Advent, from the 1962 Canadian Book of Common Prayer:
Almighty God, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life, in which thy 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 quick and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal, through him who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, now and ever. Amen.
The Epistle: Romans 13:8-14
The Gospel: St Matthew 21:1-13
Artwork: Henryk Hector Siemiradzki, Entrance of Christ into Jerusalem, 1876. Sketch for the fresco of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow, Russian Museum, St Petersburg, Russia.