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GOSPELS, EPISTLES AND PRAYERS FOR THE SUNDAYS AND FEASTS OF THE CHRISTIAN YEAR
FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT
PRAYER
O LORD, we pray Thee, raise up Thy power, and come, that by Thy protection we may deserve to be rescued from the threatening dangers of our sins, and to be saved by Thy deliverance. Who livest and reignest forever and ever. AMEN.
EpistLe. Rom. xiii. 11-14
BRETHREN: — Knowing the time, that it is now the hour for us to awake from sleep. For now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed. The night is far spent, and the day is at hand. Let us therefore cast off the works of
