Worship Readings For Advent | Christmas | New Year | Epiphany

Worship Readings And Prayers, Volume 1: The Cycle Of Light (Advent | Christmas | Epiphany) provides you with poetic and prosaic readings for this first season of the Worship Year, packed with rich theology and scriptural integrity. Each reading is photocopy-ready, and rich with powerful themes related to the faith and the season of the year you are in. Your digital readings feature:

• Four powerful responsive Advent readings (4 Sundays of Advent)
• Scripture readings for each week (based on Book Of Common Prayer)
• Readings for Christmas, New Years and Epiphany
• What Is Epiphany All About? Sheet

How Can I Use The Cycle Of Light Readings? These readings for the Cycle of Light season enable your worshiping community, through responsive prayers, readings and other means to engage with powerful theological themes related to the advent of Christ, the incarnation, Christ's revealing of himself to the Gentiles, and the gift of God's pursuit of humankind. Churches globally have used these readings, and found them powerful for their community's seasonal worship experience. Sample Text (excerpted from the Fourth Week Of Advent: A King Will Come):

Celebrant: Anticipation grows within us.

Community: The day of Your incarnation is very near!

Celebrant: There is no power nor ruler who does not owe their allegiance to You.

Community: The day of Your incarnation is very near!

Celebrant: There is no universe that is without purpose, no world that cannot name its True Leader.

Community: The day of Your incarnation is very near!

Celebrant: Every man, woman and child is made to dance within Your Law of Love.

Community: The day of Your incarnation is very near!

Celebrant: In this fourth week of Advent, we sing with the prophets.

Community: That One will come who trump the powers of every age – and show us the way to be truly human!

Celebrant: In this fourth week of Advent, we shout with the children.

Community: King of the Universe, dwell in our midst and teach us the ways of Your Everlasting Kingdom!

Celebrant: In this fourth week of Advent, we pray with believers around the world.

Community: Ruler of Heaven and Earth, sovereignly act to restore loving leadership among those who bear Your image.