Advent

For the Third Sunday of Advent Reading from Year C of the Lectionary of the Book of Common Prayer

Ps 85

Zephaniah 3:14-20

Phillipians 4:4-7 (8-9)

Luke 3:7-18

Collect (1928 BCP)

O LORD Jesus Christ, who at thy first coming didst send thy messenger to prepare thy way before thee; Grant that the ministers and stewards of thy mysteries may likewise so pre- pare and make ready thy way, by turning the hearts of the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, that at thy second coming to judge the world we may be found an acceptable people in thy sight, who livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy Spirit ever,* one God, world without end. Amen.