Collect for the Fourth Sunday of Advent
Prepare our hearts
Living God, you called your people
out of Egypt
and gave them the covenant;
prepare our hearts to hear your call,
so that we may receive with joy the
gospel of your Son
and be your faithful people, now and
for ever.
Amen.
E te Atua ora tonu, nāu i ārahi mai tāu iwi i Ihipa,
i hoatu hoki te kawenata ki a rātou;
whakaritea ō mātou ngākau kia rongo i tāu
karanga,
kia whiwhi ai mātou i te rongopai a tāu Tama i
runga i te hari koa,
kia pūmau ai mātou ki a koe āianei, ā, mō ake
tonu atu.
Āmine.