Advent ABC:X, Y and Z
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
To echo the question dreaded by every parent trundling down the motorway with a car full of hot, sticky and …
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: Unseen
From Advent Weekly reflections, Living out our Faith: Looking Beyond Ourselves (Church of England): …Who is it in our communities that we …
Advent ABC: T is for Trust
…Treasure and Travel, all qualities needed on our journey. I’m thinking here of the magi, Kings, astronomers- whatever you want …
Advent ABC: Shepherds
Sprawled in dreams on distant hills, shielding flocks from dark dusk chill. Star-burst sparks sprayed them with light, tearing …
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 …