Here’s
a prayer for the first Sunday of Advent from the Ministry Matters website. (Because of the close connection with
Jeremiah 23:1-6, it might also work well on Proper 29C or Proper 11B. You’d just need to make a few revisions.)
Advent Prayer
Your
season comes, Lord.
Come
once again,
and
feed your flock like a shepherd.
Come
once again,
and
gather up the children, the oppressed,
the
sick, the lonely, the humble,
and
the rejected of the earth.
Turn
our hearts to the least of your children,
for
if we lose them,
we
become lost.
Reconcile
us to you
and
to those we have hurt.
At
this Advent,
join
us together with neighbors, with strangers,
and
especially with our own household.
Bring
us to your light
in
our time of darkness,
through
your Son, Jesus Christ. Amen.
~ from First
Sunday of Advent Prayers and Litanies, posted on the Ministry Matters website.
www.ministrymatters.com/
