Advent ABC: W is for waiting
To echo the question dreaded by every parent trundling down the motorway with a car full of hot, sticky and …
Music
Advent ABC: V is for Veni
Veni Emmanuel, sung here by the L’Accorche Choeur, to Kodaly’s setting. This traditional Advent and Christmastime hymn, one of my …
Advent ABC: R is for RE-Visiting
… some seasonal musical favourites. I’ll admit to engineering my choice of topic to fit today’s letter. It’s a tricky …
Advent ABC: Q is for Quiet
How silently, how silently The wondrous gift is given… – Oh Little Town of Bethlehem I’d several topics lined up for …
Advent ABC: P is for Prophets
Ev’ry valley shall be exalted, and ev’ry mountain and hill made low; the crooked straight and the rough places plain. …
Advent ABC:’O’ Antiphons
The great O Antiphons of Advent in Western Christian tradition are chanted or recited at Evening Prayer during the …
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 …
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 …