Advent Prayer Week 3 (Year B)

Overview

This page contains prayers for the third week of Advent and would be suitable for school community prayer, for example staff prayer.

The prayers are suitable for 2020 (year B in the three-year lectionary cycle) as they include Sunday readings for the third week of Advent.

The prayers are also available in PDF format and also as a presentation on Adobe Spark.

Advent Prayer Week 3 (Year B)

Advent Week 3 Year B, PDF

Presentation on Adobe Spark

During the third week of Advent, we focus on good news for all through the birth of Christ.

We Gather

(Lighting of the third candle (pink) of the Advent Wreath – the Joy Candle)

Leader: We light the 3rd Advent Candle as a sign of joy — a testimony to the Light of God coming into our world that will shatter the darkness and bring healing to all who suffer and mourn.

All: Loving God, we thank you for the joy you bring us. Help us prepare our hearts for this gift. Bless our worship. Help us to hear and to do your word. We ask it in the name of the one born in Bethlehem, Jesus our Lord. Amen.

We Listen

Isaiah 61:1-2a; 10-11

Leader: The spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me;

he has sent me to bring good news to the oppressed, to bind up the broken-hearted,

to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to the prisoners;

to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favour, and the day of vengeance of our God;

to comfort all who mourn;

I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my whole being shall exult in my God;

for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation, he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

For as the earth brings forth its shoots, and as a garden causes what is sown in it to spring up, so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.

The Word of the Lord

All: Thanks be to God.