Morning Star

Advent 6 – Morning Star

Leader: As our nights grow longer and our days grow short,

we look on these earthly signs--light and green branches--

and remember God's promise to our world:

Christ, our Light and our Hope, will come.

Listen to the words of Malachi the prophet:

“See, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all

evildoers will be stubble; the day that comes shall burn them up, says the Lord of

hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch. But for you who revere

my name the sun of righteousness shall rise, with healing in its wings. You shall

go out leaping like calves from the stall. And you shall tread down the wicked,

for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet, on the day when I act, says the

Lord of hosts.”

(Malachi 4:1-3)

Leader: Let us pray.

All: Lord Jesus Christ, in your resurrection

you appeared as the Morning Star that knows no setting:

Dawn upon the darkness of the human heart

so that the deathly orders of this world may be overcome

and your whole creation made new;

for with the Father and the Holy Spirit,

you live and reign,

one God, for ever and ever.

Amen.