In joyful expectation let us pray to our Savior and Redeemer saying, “Lord Jesus, come soon!” O Wisdom, from the mouth of the Most High, you reign over all things to the ends of the earth: come and teach us how to live. Lord Jesus, come soon! O Lord, and head of the house of [...]
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Advent Litany
Posted in Advent, Liturgy on December 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
How do you introverts experience the Christmas season?
Posted in Advent on December 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Originally posted on Jesus Creed: Adam McHugh, author of the fine book, Introverts in the Church: Finding Our Place in an Extroverted Culture, has written for Patheos a reflection on Advent that deserves reading by the introverts and the extroverts, who will see Advent from a different angle. For some people, the Advent season on [...]
John Henry Newman – Watching With Christ
Posted in Advent on December 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Cardinal John Henry Newman was an incredible man. He was an evangelical, an academic, an Anglican priest in the Oxford Movement before converting to Roman Catholicism. He is currently being considered for beatification by Rome. Here is a great quote on watching with Christ. Let us consider this most serious question – What is it [...]
“The Indiculus” on Advent
Posted in Advent on December 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Indiculus was composed in the course of the controversy over the Semi-Pelagians, probably by Prosper of Aquitaine. (This group, led by the monastic scholar Cassian, held that all men receive an equal measure of grace from God and differences in their reception of it depend on their own response.) The teaching of the Indiculus [...]
Good Stuff Happening in the Land of 1,000 Hills
Posted in Advent, Anglican, Rwanda on November 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Great stuff happening through the work of my friend Robert Crow and the folks at Land of 1,000 Hills Coffee. We just received a new shipment of coffee from them just in time for the holidays. Be on the lookout for fresh roasted coffee starting this Sunday in the narthex.
Advent is Coming
Posted in Advent on November 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The first Sunday of Advent is drawing near. I am hungry for it! There’s good feeding of the soul there in the preparation for Christmas. I need Advent – its songs, its looking back and looking forward, its sobering cry, “Come, Lord Jesus, come!” I’ve long loved this quote from John Stackhouse: Carols stir us. [...]
Remove the Stones
Posted in Advent on December 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In Hank Tartlon’s Advent devotional for today, he quotes Chromatius of Aquileia: “Hence John prepared these ways of mercy and truth, faith and justice. Concerning them, Jeremiah also declared, “Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is, and walk in it.” Because the heavenly kingdom is [...]
Advent Chorale Music
Posted in Advent on December 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Great site with great Advent music. Click here.
End of Advent
Posted in Advent, Spiritual Theology on December 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Great article over at FT.
Our Advent Hope
Posted in Advent on November 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As we prepare for Christmas, we recall the ardent hope of Israel for its Messiah in the many years leading up to that very first Christmas morning in Bethlehem. Their hope was not unlike ours. We like them are experiencing exiles and dispersions, dashed expectations and shattered dreams. War and violence are still a part [...]
