Worship Booklet
Communion Prayer
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If ever we needed “comfort,” now is the time. If ever there were and occasion for God to speak “tenderly” to our souls, now is it. But why in the “wilderness?”
This is the Second Sunday of our Advent Season. Each year on this Sunday we hear the story of John the Baptist from one of the gospels of Matthew, Mark or Luke. And, in each instance, we hear a quote from the prophet Isaiah. This year, from Mark’s Gospel:
“See, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way; the voice of one crying out in the wilderness: 'Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight,'"