Source: Freely modified fromMozarabic Collects(Ember Days in Advent) 6. Advent Prayer: Defend Us from Temptation O Lord, raise up your power and come to deliver us, that we who are oppressed by temptations may be defended by your power, that the hosts of the enemy may never prevail agains...
The Advent Ember Days, like each of the other three, have as their object gratitude and supplication for the harvest. According to Leo the Great, the Advent Ember Days, falling in the time of the year where all the fruits of the earth had been collected, would mark a time of “joyful...