Advent ABC: Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols
We have a Christmas Eve custom in our house, daughter and I. Come mid afternoon, we sit down …
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Advent ABC: Mary
…Mother of Christ, Mother of God, loved and revered. Wherever you fall theologically on several millenia of marian devotion, that …
Advent ABC: L is for Lullaby and Love
If you’re a large grey pachyderm in need of some shut eye, what’s your favourite way of doing it? Even …
Advent ABC: K is for King
Two carols for the price of one! Like the unspecified number of eastern potentates I, too, have been traversing afar …
Advent ABC: J
…is for Jesus. One of the pleasures of searching out the ‘gifts’ for this Advent season is being given an …
Advent ABC: I is for Incarnation, Immanuel
…and the word became flesh and dwelt among us. – St John Unfolds the Great Mystery of the Incarnation How …
Advent ABC: H is for Herod
…and Holy Innocents …Herod the King, in his raging, Charged he hath this day His men of might, in his …
Advent ABC: G is for Gabriel
…and Gift Not a drop of Highly Flavoured Gravy in sight. I know, I know! I Should Know Better at my advanced age, …
Advent ABC: F is for Frankincense and Foodbanks
Frankincense to offer have I; Incense owns a Deity nigh; Prayer and praising, all men raising. Worship Him, God most …
Advent ABC: E is for Eternity
….and Expectant. I do hope your Christmas has had a little touch of Eternity in among the rush and …
Advent ABC: D is for Darkness
Some might say that we begin and end our lives in the dark. Yet Advent speaks hope into that darkness, …
Advent ABC: C is for Candle
C is for Candle and Calendar Do you keep the tradition of lighting an Advent Candle to mark the time …