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The Season of Advent begins with the First Sunday of Advent, sometimes called Advent Sunday. It is sometimes considered the New Year's Day of the Church as the Christian Year, and it's Liturgical Cycle, begin with Advent.

Purple vestments and paraments are used from this Sunday until Christmas Eve, as well as refraining from Asperges being performed or singing Gloria in excelsis Deo as Advent is a penitential season.

The first candle on the Advent Wreath, representing hope, is lit.

Before Mass

The following is taken from:

At the Advent Wreath

Blessing and Censing
The Lord is our faith and our life.
May the Lord's peace be with us all.
And His love shine in our hearts.
Our hope is in the coming of the Lord.
One violet candle is lit.
Let us pray: that our faith may be strengthened for the coming of the Lord.
Pause for silent prayer.
Father in Heaven, our hearts desire the warmth of Your love and our minds are searching for the light of Your Word. Increase our longing for Christ our Saviour and give us the strength to grow in our faith so that the day of His coming may find us prepared and filled with joy.
Amen.
At the Mass
The Introit

Antiphon: Psalm 25.1-3a 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.

Verse: Psalm 25.4 Shew me thy ways, O Lord: and teach me thy paths.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Repeat the Antiphon Unto thee, O Lord, ...

The English Gradual: Part II - The Proper, Pages 1-2

The Collect

Almighty God, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life, in which thy Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious Majesty, to judge both the quick and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal; through him who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, now and ever. Amen.

This Collect is to be repeated every day after the other Collects in Advent, until Christmas Eve.

The Book of Common Prayer (1962), Page 95

The Epistle
Romans 13. 8.

Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth his neighbour hath fulfilled the law. For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Love worketh no ill to his neighbour; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand; let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. Let us walk honestly as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

Romans 13.8-14 NIV KJV NRSV NASB RSV NKJV ESV

The Book of Common Prayer (1962), Pages 95-96

Advent Prose
Rorate Caeli

Antiphon: Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness

Be not wroth very sore, O Lord, neither remember iniquity forever: thy holy cities are a wilderness, Sion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation: our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee. Isaiah 64.9-11a

Repeat the Antiphon Drop down, ye heavens,...

English Hymnal (1906)

Gradual and Alleluia

Psalm 25.3a,4 For all they that look for thee: shall not be ashamed, O Lord. Make known to me thy ways, O Lord: and teach me thy paths.

Alleluia. Alleluia. Psalm 85.7 Shew us thy mercy, O Lord: and grant us thy salvation. Alleluia.

The English Gradual: Part II - The Proper, Pages 1-2

The Gospel
St. Matthew 21. 1.

When they drew nigh unto Jerusalem, and were come to Bethphage, unto the mount of Olives, then sent Jesus two disciples, saying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and straightway ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose them, and bring them unto me. And if any man say aught unto you, ye shall say, The Lord hath need of them; and straightway he will send them. All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Prophet, saying, Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, Meek, and sitting upon an ass, And a colt the foal of an ass. And the disciples went, and did as Jesus commanded them; and brought the ass, and the colt, and put on them their clothes, and they set him thereon. And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way; others cut down branches from the trees, and strawed them in the way. And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David; Blessed is he that cometh in the Name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest. And when he was come into Jerusalem all the city was moved, saying, Who is this? And the multitude said, This is Jesus the Prophet of Nazareth of Galilee. And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple; and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves; and said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.

Matthew 21.1-13 NIV KJV NRSV NASB RSV NKJV ESV

The Book of Common Prayer (1962), Pages 96-97

The Offertory

Psalm 25.1-3a 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.

The English Gradual: Part II - The Proper, Pages 1-2

The Communion

Psalm 85.12 The Lord shall shew loving-kindness: and our land shall give her increase.

The English Gradual: Part II - The Proper, Pages 1-2

At the Offices

Morning Prayer

Psalm(s): 9
First Lesson: Isaiah 1:1-20
Second Lesson: Matthew 24:1-28 (Year I)
Revelation 2:1-17 (Year II)
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After the First Lesson shall be sung or said the Hymn Te Deum Laudamus. But the Canticle Benedicite, Omnia Opera is suitable of use in Advent, in Lent, on Ember Days (except those in Whitsun Week), on Rogation Days, and when the third chapter of Daniel is read as the First Lesson.

Evening Prayer

Psalm(s): 50
First Lesson: Isaiah 2:10-end
Second Lesson: 1 Thessalonians 5 (Year I)
John 3:1-21 (Year II)
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For the Ferial Days

  Morning Prayer Evening Prayer
First Lesson Second Lesson First Lesson Second Lesson
Monday Isaiah 3:1-15 Mark 1:1-20 Isaiah 4:2-end Revelation 6
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Tuesday Isaiah 6 Mark 1:21-end Isaiah 8:16-9:7 Revelation 7
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Wednesday Isaiah 9:8-10:4 Mark 2:1-22 Isaiah 10:5-23 Revelation 8
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Thursday Isaiah 10:24-end Mark 2:23-3:12 Isaiah 13:1-14:2 Revelation 9
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Friday Isaiah 14:3-27 Mark 3:13-end Isaiah 17 Revelation 10
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Saturday Isaiah 18 Mark 4:1-20 Isaiah 19:1-17 Revelation 11
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The Book of Common Prayer (1962), Pages xvi, xvii, l and 7