Sunday 10 December

Reveal among us the light of your presence, that we may behold your power and glory.

Readings (Click the links to see the readings)

Isaiah 40:1-11 | Psalm 85:1-2, 8-13 | Mark 1:1-8 | 2 Peter 3:8-15

Ecce Puer
James Joyce

Of the dark past
A child is born;
With joy and grief
My heart is torn.

Calm in his cradle
The living lies.
May love and mercy
Unclose his eyes!

Young life is breathed
On the glass;
The world that was not
Comes to pass.

A child is sleeping:
An old man gone.
O, father forsaken,
Forgive your son!

Prayer

O Lord, raise up, we pray, your power
and come among us,
and with great might succour us;
that whereas, through our sins and wickedness
we are grievously hindered
in running the race that is set before us,
your bountiful grace and mercy
may speedily help and deliver us;
through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord,
to whom with you and the Holy Spirit,
be honour and glory, now and for ever.

John the Baptist

St John the Baptist, Leonardo, The Louvre, Paris.

"John the baptizer appeared in the wilderness,
proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins." Mark 1:4

Charles Villiers Stanford. "Beati quorum via" (Op. 38, no. 3), from Three Latin Motets, 1905. Sung by Voces8.

Psalm 119.1: Beati quorum via integra est, qui ambulant in lege Domini.
Happy are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord.
May the Lord, when he comes, find us watching and waiting. Amen.


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