Text size About us News Campaign Fundraise Volunteer Pray Schools and youth Donate Advent calendar Join us as we journey throughout the season of Advent with our global family. Find daily reflections You are here : Home > Pray > Advent prayers Advent prayers Pray and reflect with us this Advent during this season of preparation, hope and expectation ahead of Christmas. "The Lord comes that we might find him in this world of ours." Laudato Si' #236 Advent brings us closer to Christ who is with us. We are reminded that no one is beyond the reach of God's love. We wait with joy for the Lord, the hope of the world. We are called to reach out with love to our sisters and brothers in need, sharing our hope for a world transformed. Come Lord, come again Come Lord, your wounded world is yearning for you to come again. Come Lord, your weary world is crying out for you to lift us up out of our despair, our hunger, our thirst for something better, our need for the food that will last. Come Lord, come again, we need to begin again. Sue Allerton/CAFOD God of hope God of hope, we cling to you, for your renew the face of the earth. Through the gift of your Son, our Lord Jesus, we follow you on the path of dawn. Enlightened by your love and wisdom, help us to lead each other and all creatures back to your open arms. Amen. Rachel McCarthy/CAFOD Wake us up Lord! God of Salvation, Wake us up Lord! The night is nearly over. Let us begin our Advent journey. Move us from our lives Of greed and selfishness, From our globalised world Of inequality and exploitation, To your kingdom Of righteousness and mercy. To a transformed world, Where peace is built on understanding not weapons, The poor are empowered to live their lives to the full, Businesses are built on need not greed And your Creation is nurtured not abused. Wake us up Lord! Let us live as people of the light. Amen. Sue Cooper/CAFOD Maranatha! Maranatha! Open our eyes to the dignity of all people And our ears to the cries of the earth. Maranatha! Let us walk in solidarity with the poor And cleanse our world from oppression. Maranatha! Let us shout out for justice for all And renew our hope for change. Maranatha! The Lord is coming Let us share the Good News! Amen. Sue Cooper/CAFOD Light up our lives Christ, come into our world of darkness Light up our lives with your coming. Fulfil all our longings with the joy of your birth Strengthen our resolve to work for change in our world And to share the hope of your birth that each Advent brings. Amen. Sr Bridgetta Rooney/CAFOD Expectant God The heavens can no longer hold your abundant love, So you pour out the gift of your embodied self Relinquishing the beauty of your majesty, To adorn the pale colours of our humanity. Choosing to enter into this world in a place of scarcity and need. Reveal to us this hidden world of poverty, of refugees, of suffering. As you choose this as the place of your birth Let us choose this to be the place of our rebirth. Rebuild us, Transform us, Make us anew. We ask this through Christ our Lord, Amen. Kieran O'Brien/CAFOD Adventus With expectant waiting we anticipate your coming. Come close to us, Lord, come very close. Come, Alpha and Omega, who is from before the ages. Come, Son of Joseph and Son of Mary, who went down to Nazareth to be obedient to them. Come, Morning Star, who named the stars. Come, carpenter from Nazareth, who knows the smell of planed wood. Come, Beloved Son of God, who knows the heart of God. Come, Son of Man, who knows the hearts of God’s people. Come, Lord of Life and Prince of Peace. Come, Dayspring and Rising Sun. Come, Wonderful Counsellor. Come Emmanuel, God with us; God very close to us. Amen. 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