God of hope, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness, and to put on the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life, in the which your Son Jesus Christ came to us in great humility; so that on the last day when he shall come again in his glorious majesty to judge the living and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal, through him who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit now and for ever. Amen.