Our Advent Calendar ---2 December 2020

 

December 2 - Wednesday

 

Lord our God,

Grant that we may be ready

to receive Christ when he comes in glory

and to share in the banquet of heaven,

Where he lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,

one God, for ever and ever.

 

Micah 5:2-5

² But you, O Bethlehem of Ephrathah,
    who are one of the little clans of Judah,
from you shall come forth for me
    one who is to rule in Israel,
whose origin is from of old,
    from ancient days.
³ Therefore he shall give them up until the time
    when she who is in labor has brought forth;
then the rest of his kindred shall return
    to the people of Israel.
⁴ And he shall stand and feed his flock in the strength of the Lord,
    in the majesty of the name of the Lord his God.
And they shall live secure, for now he shall be great
    to the ends of the earth;
⁵ and he shall be the one of peace.

 

 

“Into this world, this demented inn in which there is absolutely no room for him at all, Christ comes uninvited.”
                              ― Thomas Merton