A Collect for Sunday

O God, you make us glad with the weekly remembrance of the glorious resurrection of you Son our Lord: Give us this day such blessing through our worship of you, that the week to come may be spent in your favor; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. The Advent of our God our prayers must now employ. And we must meet God on the Road with hymns of Holy joy. The everlasting Child incarnate deigns to be. Selects a servant's life to live, God's people to set free. Before the dawning day let sin's dark deeds be gone, and all our old life put away, our new life to begun. All glory to the Christ who comes to set us free, with God and Spirit ever One throughout eternity Words: Charles Coffin (18thC), tr. John Chandler (19thC)