Our Advent Calendar --- 5 December 2020

 

Dec 5 – Saturday

 

God our Father,

You loved the world so much

you gave your only Son to free us

from the ancient power of sin and death.

Help us who wait for his coming,

and lead us to true liberty.

We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, you Son,

who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,

one God, for ever and ever.

 

Ezekiel 36:24-28

²⁴ I will take you from the nations, and gather you from all the countries, and bring you into your own land. ²⁵ I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. ²⁶ A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you; and I will remove from your body the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. ²⁷ I will put my spirit within you, and make you follow my statutes and be careful to observe my ordinances. ²⁸ Then you shall live in the land that I gave to your ancestors; and you shall be my people, and I will be your God.

 

“You could more easily catch a hurricane in a shrimp net that you can understand the wild, relentless, passionate, uncompromising, pursuing the love of God made present in the manger.”

-          Brennan Manning