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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: 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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Advent ABC: Mary

6 August 202013 December 2019

…Mother of Christ, Mother of God, loved and revered. Wherever you fall theologically on several millenia of marian devotion, that …

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Advent ABC: L is for Lullaby and Love

6 August 202012 December 2019

If you’re a large grey pachyderm in need of some shut eye, what’s your favourite way of doing it? Even …

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Advent ABC: K is for King

6 August 202011 December 2019

Two carols for the price of one! Like the unspecified number of eastern potentates I, too, have been traversing afar …

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Advent ABC: J

6 August 202010 December 2019

…is for Jesus.  One of the pleasures of searching out the ‘gifts’ for this Advent season is being given an …

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Advent ABC: I is for Incarnation, Immanuel

6 August 20209 December 2019

…and the word became flesh and dwelt among us. – St John Unfolds the Great Mystery of the Incarnation How …

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