Advent – Holding Heaven

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 …

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

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

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

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

…and Holy Innocents …Herod the King, in his raging, Charged he hath this day His men of might, in his …

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

I’m pleased to announce that from Sunday Holding Heaven will be blogging its very own Advent Calendar: an Advent ABC! Each day I’ll …

Stir up, O Lord, the wills of your faithful people; that they, plenteously bringing forth the fruit of good works, …