Advent 2020 - Begins 29 Nov 2020

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Advent this year: Sunday, November 29 2020    to    Thursday, December 24, 2020

 

Advent Prayers

https://aleteia.org/2020/11/29/prayer-to-be-watchful-during-advent/?utm_campaign=NL_en&utm_source=daily_newsletter&utm_medium=mail&utm_content=NL_en 

Oh that I might say Lord with as much truth did the kingly Prophet, “My God early before the sun rises will I arise to seek you.” I long after you, my soul thirsts for you with burning desire. 

Yet, I know but too well that for lack of watching over my soul I have left it like an untilled field in which the evil weeds of bad habits have taken but too deep root my heart and has become the prey of a multitude of imperfect attachments and has lost many graces.

If the Shepherds had been sleeping the Angels would not have announced to them your Birth. O my Savior, I desire to watch like them that I may profit by it. Lord, arouse my sleeping soul and establish it in Christian watchfulness by the authority of your Divine Word. Amen.

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https://aleteia.org/2018/12/03/pray-for-strength-against-evil-with-this-advent-prayer-of-benedict-xvi/ 

Come Jesus; come, give power to light and to good; come where falsehood, ignorance of God, violence and injustice predominate. Come Lord Jesus, give power to the good in the world and help us to be bearers of your light, peacemakers, witnesses of the truth. Come, Lord Jesus!

 

Advent and Christmas

https://www.catholic.org/advent/advent.php?id=5 Scroll down through the site for heaps of info about Advent - after this, it is followed by heaps of info re Christmas