Covenant Household

Friday after the First Sunday in Advent

Dates: Friday 4 December 2026; Friday 3 December 2027; Friday 8 December 2028.

The lessons

Morning, first lesson
Isaiah 10:24–11:9
Morning, second lesson
Mark 3:13–35
Evening, first lesson
Isaiah 11:10–12:6
Evening, second lesson
James 4

The lessons come from the Revised Tables of Lessons (1922). The psalms follow the day of the month, in the order of 1662. Open a date in the app to sing the psalm of that day.

The collect

The collect for the First Sunday of Advent, from the Book of Common Prayer (1662).

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, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

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