Disciples, Apostles, and Saints! Thanksgiving weekend often lands right before the first Sunday in Advent. We spend this time with friends and family (physically or in memory) or perhaps alone as a kind of respite from them! But for many of us, it is a time to remember to be thankful. It is the …
A Word: A Christian New Year
an apocalyptic vision of the futureAdvent 1C | Luke 21:25-36 Happy New Year, everybody! Today we celebrate the church’s new year. Which, if we’re counting, goes alongside the new years we celebrate with the Gregorian Calendar on January 1st and the multiple school calendars that depend on what …
Advent
Disciples, Apostles, and Saints! This Sunday, we begin a new liturgical year again, with Advent, the four Sundays that precede Christmas Day. The themes for Advent involve anticipation, waiting, preparing, which are themes abundant in the culture this time every year as people prepare for …
