O Clavis David (4th Antiphon):
O Key of David and sceptre of the House of Israel; you open and no one can shut; you shut and no one can open: Come and lead the prisoners from the prison house, those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death.
From The 'O' Antiphons Advent Study | Seasonal Study Program
Poem1:
Poem 2:
Prepare the way – Unfolding Light
Holy Hermit Thomas Merton:
"Vocation does not come from a voice 'out there' calling me to be someone I am not. It comes from a voice 'in here' calling me to be the person I was born to be, to fulfil the original self-hood given me at birth by God."
Collect:
Gracious God,
your Son Jesus Christ opened wide the gate of heaven,
making plain the way that leads to eternal joy:
Grant that we who have been buried with Christ in baptism and raised to new life
may strive courageously for the freedom and peace of the world;
through the same your Son, Jesus Christ,
to whom with you and the Holy Spirit be praise and dominion for ever and ever.
Amen.
