Prayer for First Sunday of Advent: «Almighty God, give us grace to cast
away the works of darkness, and put on the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life in which your 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 living and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal; through him who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.
And the hubs & I have one gigantic poop & puke fest 450 miles
away from home (missing
glorious Thanksgiving dinner, of course), AND we spread the love to father in - law (which put him in the hospital) and, finally (on the
day we left to go home), mother in - law, who had been kind enough to care for our 2 yr.