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Meditating on Christ in Advent

This Advent we meditate on our King who comes to us righteous and having salvation (Zechariah 9:9). Johann Starck, in his Prayer Book, exhorts us Christians how to meditate on the coming Christ in this season of preparation. Source: Starck’s Prayer-Book, by Johann Starck (translated and edited by W. H. …

First Sunday of Advent (2017)

With the season of Advent, the Church begins a new church year. For this first week of Advent, we pray that God would give us grace to cast away the works of darkness and put on the armor of light. First Sunday of Advent, from The Book of Common Prayer. …

Redeemer, Come and Open Wide

This Advent prayer comes from a well-known hymn with a lilting tune, “Lift Up Your Heads, Ye Mighty Gates.” Its final stanza offers this wonderful prayer to our gracious Redeemer, Jesus Christ. See Lutheran Service Book, 341, stanza 5. http://media.blubrry.com/sacredmeditations/sacredmeditations.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/ADV4-Redeemer-Come-and-Open-Wide.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS …