Today is the Fourth and last Sunday of Advent and also, appropriately the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. In San Diego outr day is just 10 hours long.

                                                                     Collect of the Day

Purify 

our conscience, 

Almighty God, 

by your daily visitation, 

that your Son 

Jesus Christ, 

at his coming,

may find in us a mansion prepared for himself