
This is a small selection of free-use illustrations, photographs or images based on the readings and prayers/propers in the Roman Catholic lectionary for the first Sunday of Advent, Year A. It is part of the Lectionary Art Series.
See hymn suggestions for this Sunday for more information about the readings and seasonal notes about this day, and links to other weeks.
Classical
Swords Are Beaten into Plowshares
Quatrefoil on the western exterior Cathédrale d'Amiens depicting Micah's prophecy concerning the future reign of peace in which nations will beat swords into plowshares and wage war no more.Source: http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=29252
Artist: Unknown (1220-1240)
Contemporary
Adventus
Source: http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=55806Artist: Michael Guess
License Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial ShareAlike 3.0 License
Let Us Beat Our Swords into Plowshares
Source: http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=54228Artist: Evgeniy Viktorovich Vuchetich (1908-1974)
Walk in the light
Source: WikimediaArtist: Jubair1985
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International
Line Art
Clock - an hour you do not expect
Source: https://pixabay.com/p-160966/?no_redirectWalk into the light
Source: WikimediaArtist: Unknown
License: GNU Free Documentation License
Swords into ploughshares
Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/the-o/2981939115Artist: David Ohmer
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/