Carol Service Collects: Patience in the waiting (Redub)

O God, our God, help us be patient

as we hunger for your freedom.

Keep us hoping for the joy we cannot see or feel

as we wait for this Christmas

and long for the arrival of your new creation.

While it is still night, sustain our wait for liberty,

so that, as soon as the love of Jesus dawns on us,

we will be ready to receive you. 
Help us be ready too, to bring your love to the world,

both now and forever. Amen.

The Gunning Fog readability index suggests 8.15 years of formal education is required to understand this prayer on a first reading, the Common Worship prayer requires 21.57 years.

This is a redub of the Post Communion for 'The First Sunday of Advent'.
It may be suitable for use after the relevant reading/s at a Carol Service.

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