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The Second Week of Advent

Each day of Advent, 
we offer a brief Daily Advent Prayer. 
Simply choose one of the days below. 

Before using the 
Daily Advent Prayer, read this 
Guide to Daily Advent Prayer first.

    Daily Advent Prayer:
SUNDAY
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
 
Justice shall flourish in his time, 
and fullness of peace for ever.

Prepare the way of the Lord,
     make straight his paths.

Jerusalem, take off your robe of mourning and misery;

The desert and the parched land will exult;
     the steppe will rejoice and bloom.
     They will bloom with abundant flowers,

Our God will come to save us! 

The Lord is kind and merciful;

Those who follow you, Lord, will have the light of life.

Rouse your power,  and come to save us!

Preparing our Hearts and asking for the Grace

We prepare this week by stepping up the longing.  We move through this week by naming deeper and more specific desires.

Each morning this week, if even for that brief moment at the side of our beds, we want to light a second inner candle.  We want to let it represent “a bit more hope.”  Perhaps we can pause, breathe deeply and say,

Lord, I place my trust in you.

Each day this week, as we encounter times that are rushed, even crazy, we can take that deep breath, and make that profound prayer.  Each time we face some darkness, some experience of “parched land” or desert, some place where we feel “defeated” or “trapped,” we hear the words, “Our God will come to save us!” 

The grace we desire for this week is to be able to hear the promise and to invite our God to come into those real places of our lives that dearly need God's coming.  We want to be able to say: 

Lord, I place my trust in your promise.  Please, Lord, rouse your power and come into this place in my life, this relationship, into this deep self-defeating pattern.  Please come here and save me.

Each night this week we can look back over the day and give thanks for the moments of deep breath, that opened a space for more trust and confidence in God's fidelity to us.  No matter how difficult the challenges we are facing - from the growing realization of our personal sinfulness, to any experience of emptiness or powerlessness, even in the face of death itself - we can give thanks for the two candles that faithfully push back the darkness.  And, we can give thanks for the graces given us to believe that “Our God will come to save us” because we were given the courageous faith to desire and ask boldly.

Come, Lord Jesus.  Come and visit your people. 
We await your coming.  Come, O Lord.

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