A Sermon for the 1st Sunday of Advent

Matthew 21:1-9 Happy New Year! Today marks the start of Advent and the beginning of a new year in the Church. I’m sure by now, you can sense Christmas is on the horizon. Although our Gospel reading this morning may seem to point toward Easter, as it relates to events...

Fourth Sunday of Advent

  FOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT INTROIT. Rorate coeli. Isa. 45  DROP down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open and bring forth a Saviour. Ps. 19. The heavens declare the glory of God: and the firmament sheweth his...

Second Sunday of Advent

The Second Sunday in Advent INTROIT.  Ps 80:1-7   Ant. HEAR, O thou Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; / show thyself also, thou that sittest upon the cherubim. 2 Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh, / stir up thy strength, and come and help...

First Sunday of Advent

FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT   INTROIT. Ad te levavi. Ps. 25  UNTO thee, O Lord, will I lift up my soul: my God, I have put my trust in thee, O let me not be confounded: neither let mine enemies triumph over me: for all they that hope in thee shall not be ashamed. Ps....

A Sermon for the Sunday Next Before Advent

SUNDAY NEXT BEFORE ADVENT John 6:5-14 King James Version 5 When Jesus then lifted up his eyes, and saw a great company come unto him, he saith unto Philip, Whence shall we buy bread, that these may eat? 6 And this he said to prove him: for he himself knew what he...