'Put on the armor of light'
It's Wednesday, so I'm thinking about how the light gets in
On Wednesdays I workshop the sermon. This Sunday is the first Sunday of Advent, so it’s a big one…
Scripture: Ok, I’m ‘cheating’ a little. The Episcopal Church uses the ‘Revised Common Lectionary’, which is a set of readings for each Sunday of the church year, in a three year cycle.
This Sunday, instead of going directly at the Gospel, I’m using the Collect of the Day from the Book of Common Prayer. These prayers are also seasonal, and I just love the one for Advent 1:
Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness, and put on the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life in which your 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 living and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal; through him who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.