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Month: December 2019

Advent ABC:X, Y and Z

6 August 202024 December 2019

Three for the price of one today! The sometime maligned term  Xmas is actually perfectly legit. Did you realise that …

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Advent ABC: W is for waiting

6 August 202023 December 2019

To echo the question dreaded by every parent trundling down the motorway with a car full of hot, sticky and …

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Advent ABC: V is for Veni

6 August 202022 December 2019

Veni Emmanuel, sung here by the L’Accorche Choeur, to Kodaly’s setting. This traditional Advent and Christmastime hymn, one of my …

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Advent ABC: Unseen

6 August 202021 December 2019

From Advent Weekly reflections, Living out our Faith: Looking Beyond Ourselves (Church of England): …Who is it in our communities that we …

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Advent ABC: T is for Trust

6 August 202020 December 2019

…Treasure and Travel, all qualities needed on our journey.  I’m thinking here of the magi, Kings, astronomers- whatever  you want …

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Advent ABC: Shepherds

6 August 202019 December 2019

Sprawled in dreams on distant hills, shielding flocks from dark dusk chill.   Star-burst sparks sprayed them with light, tearing …

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Advent ABC Intermission

6 August 202018 December 2019

…inspired by  Jill Kuhn of Weird Birds  fame on repurposing Christmas cards, (love the snazzy sweaters by the way!), I’m happy …

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Advent ABC: R is for RE-Visiting

6 August 202018 December 2019

… some seasonal musical favourites. I’ll admit to engineering  my choice of topic to fit today’s letter. It’s a tricky …

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Advent ABC: Q is for Quiet

6 August 202017 December 2019

How silently, how silently The wondrous gift is given… – Oh Little Town of Bethlehem I’d several topics lined up for …

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Advent ABC: P is for Prophets

6 August 202016 December 2019

Ev’ry valley shall be exalted, and ev’ry mountain and hill made low; the crooked straight and the rough places plain. …

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Advent ABC:’O’ Antiphons

6 August 202015 December 2019

The great  O Antiphons of Advent in Western Christian tradition   are chanted or recited at  Evening Prayer during the …

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Advent ABC: Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols

6 August 202014 December 2019

We have a Christmas Eve custom in our house,   daughter and I. Come mid afternoon,   we sit down …

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