"A warm welcome to Adventus30" - Fr Mark Withoos

Traditionally recited 15 times daily repeatedly from the feast of St. Andrew (30 November) until Midnight Mass.

Saint Synesius, pray for us

“O happy fault which procured for us such a Redeemer”

Pope Saint Damasus, pray for us

“All through Jesus Christ; all with Jesus Christ; all in Jesus Christ”

Pope Saint Melchiades, pray for us

“The Word was made flesh . . . and we saw His glory”

“Thou art all fair, my love, and there is not a spot in thee”

“We were reconciled with God by the death of His Son”

Upon the 9th of December, were born into the better life: _ At Toledo, in Spain, the holy Virgin and martyr Leocadia. In the persecution under the Emperor Diocletian she suffered a terrible imprisonment under Dacian, Prefect of Spain, and when she heard of the grievous torments of blessed Eulalia and the other martyrs, she knelt down in prayer and gave up her unstained spirit to Christ (,in the year 303). At Carthage, the holy martyr Restitutus, Bishop (of that see,) concerni

“Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to Thee”.

“God so loved the world as to give His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him may not perish, but may have life everlasting”

Queen conceived without original sin, pray for us.

Saint Ambrose, pray for us

“Prepare ye the way of the Lord”

“Prepare ye the way of the Lord”

Saint Nicolas, pray for us

“Rejoice in the Lord always” & “May everything be bitter to me, that Thou alone mayst be sweet to my heart"

Saint Brian, pray for us

“Remember, O good Jesus, that it was for me Thou camest into the world; do not condemn me in the day of Thy justice”

Saint Peter Chrysologus, pray for us

Saint Francis Xavier, pray for us

"O holy Trinity, O Jesus my love"