You're perhaps staring in baffled, slack-jawed consternation as our country descends into banana republicdom, with all the risks therein. Or maybe you're wondering why Texas is wet and freezing, like Aberystwyth in July.
Whatever the case, here's something different, a sermon for the first Sunday of Advent in the form of the season's governing Collect:
ALMIGHTY God, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life, in which thy 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 quick and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal, through him who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, now and ever. Amen.
And for all those who like to say the Divine Office from the 1928 Book of Common Prayer, and even for those who don't, here's a link.
Say your prayers, kids, and sanctify the day. It's important.
God bless,
LSP
