For the Advent season, we will be using the book Light Upon Light by Sarah Arthur as a guide. Each component of the service will be taken from that book.

 

Opening Prayer:

Deliver us for Thy descent

Into the Virgin, whose womb was a place

Of middle kind; and Thou being sent

To ungracious us, stayed’st at her full of grace….

 

Text:

Luke 1:26-38

 

Literary Selection:

Annunciation by Elizabeth B. Rooney

 

There was

Is

Has been

And will be

An everywhere

Fixed

And transfixed

Wherin

One single

Simple

Open soul

Received

The potency

Of the creative whole.

 

Benediction:

…And through Thy poor birth, where first Thou Glorified’st poverty,

And yet soon after riches didst allow,

By accepting King’s gifts in the Epiphany,

Deliver ,and make us, to both ways free.

Amen.