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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: 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: G is for Gabriel

6 August 20207 December 2019

…and Gift Not a drop  of Highly Flavoured Gravy in sight. I know, I know!  I Should  Know Better at my advanced age, …

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Advent ABC: F is for Frankincense and Foodbanks

6 August 20206 December 2019

Frankincense to offer have I; Incense owns a Deity nigh; Prayer and praising, all men raising. Worship Him, God most …

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Advent ABC: E is for Eternity

6 August 20205 December 2019

….and Expectant.   I do hope your Christmas has had a little touch of  Eternity in among the rush and …

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Advent ABC: D is for Darkness

6 August 20204 December 2019

Some might say that we  begin and end our lives in the dark.  Yet Advent speaks hope into that darkness, …

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Advent ABC: C is for Candle

6 August 20203 December 2019

C is for Candle and Calendar Do you keep the tradition of lighting  an Advent Candle to mark the time …

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Advent ABC: B is for Bethlehem

6 August 20202 December 2019

B is for Bethlehem, and Balthazar  Bethlehem, where it all began. So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in …

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