Comfort, give comfort to my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her service is at an end, her guilt is expiated; indeed, she has received from the hand […]
Tag: Advent
The First Sunday in Advent: A Spirituality of the Liturgical Year
You may have noticed a change in the décor around church this Sunday: perhaps there were some new missalettes in the pews or maybe your priest greeted you in his homily with a hearty “Happy […]
The Season of Advent: I Want It All
Well aware of my deep love for LEGOs, this year my girlfriend gave me a LEGO Advent Calendar. Each of its 24 little cardboard doors hides a small set of pieces, which so far have […]
All I Want for Christmas is an Advent Playlist
Katherine Greiner’s post on the practices of waiting during Advent struck a chord with me—and opened up the question of which chords to strike.* While I’m not such a liturgical purist as to find Christmas […]
The Season of Advent: Cultivating Practices of Waiting
Today is the first Sunday of the Season of Advent. We often talk about Advent as the season of preparation. We are called to prepare our hearts for the coming of Christ and God’s reign […]
Celebrating Christmas During Advent
Its a common theological trope during the Advent season that “everyone’s doing it wrong.” It’s Advent, not Christmas! It’s the time of waiting, the time of preparation, the time to reflect on the liturgical meaning […]
Nothing Will be Impossible for God
Reflection on the readings for the Fourth Sunday of Advent Only one more week until Christmas, and that of course means there’s only one more week to fret about Christmas shopping before the start of […]
