A Prayer to begin the day from the Church of England

Almighty God,
give us grace to cast away the works of darkness
and to put on the armour of light,
now in the time of this mortal life,
in which your Son Jesus Christ came to us in great humility;
that on the last day,
when he shall come again in his glorious majesty
to judge the living and the dead,
we may rise to the life immortal;
through him who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.
Amen.

On this first day of Advent, the beginning of a new liturgical year, a detail of Margaret Edith Rope's remarkable east window, 'The Redemption of Creation', at Far Headingley, Leeds, installed in 1922, her first major commission. pic.twitter.com/mvIjf4zFcV

— Simon Knott (@SimoninSuffolk) December 1, 2024