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 …
Advent
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 …
When Advent and Christmas Coexist
Disciples, Apostles, and Saints! While most of us know the challenge of keeping Advent in a culture of Christmas, there is a semi-regular anomaly that happens in the liturgical calendar every seven years or so. When Advent and Christmas exist on the same day. Well...that’s not technically …