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Wachet! betet! betet! wachet! (Watch! Pray! Pray! Watch!) [1] is the title of two church cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach.He composed a first version, BWV 70a, in Weimar for the second Sunday in Advent of 1716 and expanded it in 1723 in Leipzig to BWV 70, a cantata in two parts for the 26th Sunday after Trinity.
First Sunday in Advent: On the First Sunday (Advent Sunday), they look forward to the Second Coming of Christ. Second Sunday in Advent: On the Second Sunday, the Gospel reading recalls the preaching of John the Baptist, who came to "prepare the way of the Lord"; the other readings have associated themes.
Some sources name the Sunday after Easter the second Sunday in Easter, counting Easter Sunday as the first. Trinity and the Sundays after Trinity Trinity is the Sunday after Pentecost. A variable number of Sundays occurs between Trinity and the first Sunday in Advent, a maximum of 27, if Easter is extremely early. Marian feasts
Advent Sunday, also called the First Sunday of Advent or First Advent Sunday, is the first day of the liturgical year in the Western Christian Churches and the start of the Christian season of Advent; [1] a time of preparation for the celebration of Christ's birth at Christmas and the return of Christ at the Second Coming. Advent Sunday is the ...
When Does Advent Begin in 2024? Advent began on Sunday, December 1, and is celebrated each Sunday leading up to Christmas (ending on Christmas Eve, December 24, 2024). ... The second purple candle ...
If Easter Sunday or Easter Monday falls on April 25, the Greater Litanies, which in the pre-1970 form of the Roman Rite are on that day, are transferred to the following Tuesday. [52] By a decree of May 5, 2000, the Second Sunday of Easter (the Sunday after Easter Day itself), is known also in the Roman Rite as the Feast of the Divine Mercy. [53]
The Second Coming or Advent of the Christ is not in a physical body, [82] but in the new soul body of each individual in the etheric plane of the planet [83] where man "shall be caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air." [84] The "day and hour" of this event is not known. [85]
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