Prayers for a 7-week Advent
2011 October 16
Victoria and I crafted Prayers of the People for a 7-week Advent that plagiarize freely from the four scripture readings for each of the seven Sundays before Christmas in the Revised Common Lectionary. This ties the prayers closely to the text. The 7 Prayers of the People are online here: PoP-7weekAdvent.doc and PoP-7weekAdvent.pdf
A Seven-Week Advent?
Since when does Advent have seven weeks you may ask? For centuries of unbroken tradition in the Orthodox Church which keeps the Nativity Fast for the seven weeks before Christmas as it keeps the seven weeks of Lent before Easter. More on the nascent move to recover this tradition in the west is found online here: Rediscover the Seven Sundays of Advent.
Peace,
Frank+
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