Advent Collects

Collects of Advent

First Sunday

Grant your faithful, we pray, almighty God,

The resolve to run forth to meet your Christ

With righteous deeds at his coming,

So that, gathered at his right hand,

They may be worthy to possess the heavenly kingdom

Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,

who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,

one God, for ever and ever.

First Monday

Keep us alert, we pray, o Lord our God,

As we await the advent of Christ your son,

So that, when he comes and knocks

He may find us watchful in prayer

And exultant in his praise.

Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,

who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,

one God, for ever and ever.

First Tuesday

Look with favor, Lord God, on our petition

And in our trials grant us your compassionate help,

That, consoled by the presence of your Son,

Whose coming we now await,

We may be tainted no longer

By the corruption of former ways.

Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,

who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,

one God, for ever and ever.

First Wednesday

Prepare our hearts, we pray, o Lord our God

By your divine power,

So that at the coming of Christ your Son

We may be found worthy of the banquet of eternal life

And merit to receive heavenly nourishment from his hands

Who lives and reigns with you

In the unity of the Holy Spirit

One God, forever and ever.

First Thursday

Stir up your power, O Lord,

And come to our help with mighty strength,

That what our sins impede

The grace of your mercy may hasten.

Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,

who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,

one God, for ever and ever.

First Friday

Stir up your power, O Lord, and come,

That with you to protect us,

We may find rescue

From the pressing dangers of our sins,

And with you to set us free

We may be found worthy of salvation.

who live and reign with you God the Father

in the unity of the Holy Spirit,

one God, for ever and ever.

First Saturday

O God, who sent your Only Begotten Son into this world

To free the human race from its ancient enslavement,

Bestow on those who devoutly await him

The grace of your compassion from on high,

That we may attain the prize of true freedom.

Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,

who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,

one God, for ever and ever.

Second Sunday

Almighty and merciful God,

May no earthly undertaking hinder those

Who set out in haste meet your Son,

But may our learning of heavenly wisdom

Gain us admittance to his company.

Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,

Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,

One God, for ever and ever.

2nd Monday

May our prayer of petition

Rise before you, we pray, O Lord,

That, with purity unblemished,

We, your servants, may come, as we desire,

To celebrate the great mystery

Of the Incarnation of your Only Begotten Son.

Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,

One God, for ever and ever.

2nd Tuesday

O God, who have shown forth your salvation

To all the ends of the earth,

Grant we pray,

That we may look forward in joy

To the glorious Nativity of Christ.

Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,

One God, for ever and ever.

2nd Wednesday

Almighty God, who command us

To prepare the way for Christ the Lord,

Grant in your kindness, we pray,

That no infirmity may weary us

As we long for the comforting presence

Of our heavenly physician.

Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,

One God, for ever and ever.

2nd Thursday

Stir up our hearts, O Lord,

To make ready the paths

Of your Only Begotten Son,

That through his coming,

We may be found worthy to serve you

With minds made pure.

Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,

Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,

One God, for ever and ever.

2nd Friday

Grant that your people, we pray, almighty God,

May be ever watchful

For the coming of your Only Begotten Son,

That, as the author of our salvation himself has taught us,

We may hasten, alert and with lighted lamps,

To meet him when he comes.

Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,

One God, for ever and ever.

2nd Saturday

May the splendor of your glory

Dawn in our hearts,

We pray almighty God,

That all shadows of the night may be scattered

And we may be shown to be children of light

By the advent of your Only Begotten Son.

Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,

One God, for ever and ever.

3rd Sunday

O God, who see how your people

Faithfully await the feast of the Lord’s nativity,

Enable us, we pray,

To attain the joys of so great a salvation

And to celebrate them always

With solemn worship and glad rejoicing.

Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,

Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,

One God, for ever and ever.

3rd Monday

Incline a merciful ear to our cry, we pray, O Lord,

And casting light on the darkness of our hearts,

Visit us with the grace of your Son,

Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,

One God, for ever and ever.

3rd Tuesday

O God, who through your Only Begotten Son

Have made us a new creation,

Look kindly, we pray,

On the handiwork of your mercy,

And at your Son’s coming

Cleans us from every stain of the old way o life.

Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,

Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,

One God, for ever and ever.

3rd Wednesday

Grant, we pray, almighty God,

That the coming solemnity of your Son

May bestow healing upon us in this present l8ife

And bring us the rewards of life eternal.

Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,

Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,

One God, for ever and ever.

3rd Thursday

Unworthy servants that we are, O Lord,

Grieved by the guilt of our deeds,

We pray that you may gladden us

By the saving advent of your Only Begotten Son

Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,

One God, for ever and ever.

3rd Friday

May your grace, almighty God,

Always go before us and follow after,

So that we, who await with heartfelt desire

The coming of your Only Begotten Son,

May receive your help both now and in the life to come.

Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,

Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,

One God, for ever and ever.

4th Sunday

Pour forth we beseech you, O Lord,

You grace into our hearts,

That we, to whom the incarnation of Christ your Son

Was made known by the message of an angel,

May by his passion and cross

Be brought to the glory of his Resurrection.

Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,

One God, for ever and ever.

December 17

O God, creator and Redeemer of human nature,

Who willed that your Word should take flesh

In an ever-virgin womb,

Look with favor on our prayers,

That your Only Begotten Son,

Having taken to himself our humanity,

May be pleased to grant us a share in his divinity.

Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,

One God, for ever and ever.

December 18

Grant, we pray, almighty God,

That we, who are weighed down from of old

By slavery beneath the yoke of sin,

May be set free by the newness

Of the long-awaited Nativity

Of your Only Begotten Son.

Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,

One God, for ever and ever.

December 19

O God, who through the child-bearing of the holy Virgin

Graciously revealed the radiance of your glory to the world,

Grant, we pray,

That we may venerate with integrity of faith

The mystery of so wondrous an Incarnation

And always celebrate it with due reverence.

Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,

Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,

One God, for ever and ever.

December 20

O God, eternal majesty, whose ineffable Word

The immaculate Virgin received through the message of an angel,

And so became the dwelling place of divinity,

Grant, we pray, that by her example

We may in humility hold fast to your will,

Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,

Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,

One God, for ever and ever.

December 21

Hear in kindness, O Lord,

The prayers of your people,

That those how rejoice

At the coming of your only Begotten Son in our flesh

May, when at last he comes in glory,

Gain the reward of eternal life.

Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,

Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,

One God, for ever and ever.

December 22

O God, who, seeing the human race fallen into death,

Willed to redeem it by the coming

Of your Only Begotten Son,

Grant we pray,

That those who confess his Incarnation with humble fervor

May merit his company as their Redeemer,

Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,

One God, for ever and ever.

December 23

Almighty ever-living God,

As we see how the Nativity of your Son

According to the flesh draws near,

We pray that to us, your unworthy servants,

Mercy may flow from your Word,

Who chose to become flesh of the Virgin Mary

And establish us as his dwelling.

Jesus Christ our Lord,

Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,

One God, for ever and ever.

December 24

At the Morning Mass

Come quickly, we pray, Lord Jesus

And do not delay,

That those who trust in your compassion

May find solace and relief in your coming.

Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,

One God, for ever and ever.