Introit for Advent I:
Ad te levávi ánimam meam: Deus meus, in te confíde, non erubéscam: neque irrídeant me inimíci mei: étenim univérsi, qui te exspéctant, non confundéntur.
Vias tuas, Dómine, demónstra mihi: et sémitas tuas édoce me.
V. Glória Patri, et Fílio, et Spirítui Sancto.
R. Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, et in saecula saeculórum. Amen Ps. 24:1-4

To You I lift up my soul: in You, O my God, I trust; let me not be put to shame; let not my enemies exult over me. No one who waits for You shall be put to shame.
Your ways, O Lord, make known to me; teach me Your paths.
V. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.
R. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

We should always look to Our Lord first. Today’s Gospel (EF) reminds us to not be afraid, no matter what we see about us.
I love Fr. Jerome Nadal’s Gospel illustrations (it must be the teacher and the icon-lover in me). Here is today’s: