Advent prayer

Source: PrayCatholic

One of my favorite texts in the former Sacramentary was the alternate Opening Prayer for the First Sunday of Advent. As you know, the alternate prayers do not exist in any form in the new Missal. However, there are many opportunities to use these texts in times of prayer outside of Mass. So, for your own prayer this Advent, I'm pleased to offer these beautiful words once again:

Father in heaven,

our hearts desire the warmth of your love

and our minds are searching

for the light of your Word.

Increase our longing for Christ our Savior

and give us the strength to grow in love,

that the dawn of his coming

may find us rejoicing in his presence

and welcoming the light of his truth.
We ask this in the name of Jesus the Lord.
Amen.

(This weekend is the liturgical first anniversary of the new translation of the Roman Missal.)

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