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Sunday, December 5, 2027

2nd Sunday of Advent, Year C

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Prayers of the Faithful for Second Sunday of Advent

Sunday | Liturgical Color: Violet

Readings: Bar 5:1-9 · Phil 1:4-6, 8-11 · Lk 3:1-6 (Lectionary 6)

The readings in brief: Baruch tells Jerusalem to take off her robe of mourning and to look east: God is bringing her children back, levelling the mountains and filling the valleys. Saint Paul prays with joy for the Philippians, sure that God will complete the good work he began in them. In the fifteenth year of Tiberius the word of God comes to John in the desert, and he preaches a baptism of repentance.

Introduction (priest): As we wait for the coming of the Lord, let us pray with watchful hearts for the Church and for the whole world.

Concluding prayer (priest): Father, hear the prayers of your people who long for your Son. Keep us awake and ready to welcome him. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

Option 1

1.For the Church: that she may take off her robe of mourning, and prepare the way of the Lord in the wilderness of our time, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
2.For emperors, governors and high priests, and all who hold power in our day: that the word of God, which came to John in the wilderness, may reach them too, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
3.For exiles led away on foot by their enemies: that God may bring them back, carried in honour, by a level road, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
4.For those who preach repentance and baptise: that every valley may be filled and every mountain brought low, so that all flesh may see the salvation of God, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
5.For ourselves: that he who began a good work in us may perform it until the day of Jesus Christ, and that our love may abound more and more, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
Optional:For those who light the second candle of Advent, and for all who long for someone far away.Lord, hear our prayer.
That N. and all the faithful departed, sincere and without offence, may see the salvation of God in the day of Christ, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.

Option 2

1.For the Pope and all pastors, that their teaching and example may awaken hope and encourage conversion, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
2.For the human family, that the longing for peace may become shared work for justice and care for creation, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
3.For people grieving someone they love, that they may find room for their sorrow and companions willing to remain beside them, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
4.For our parish, that preparing the Lord's way may mean removing obstacles of injustice, resentment, and indifference from our life together, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
5.For the faithful departed and those with no one to remember them, that God's promised mercy may gather them into eternal light, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.

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December 5, 2027

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