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 …
Advent
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 …
Loving Advent
Disciples, Apostles, and Saints! If you’ve been around a liturgical church awhile, you know that Advent is the season which precedes Christmas. And that the Christmas Season begins on Christmas Day and continues through twelfth night, the eve of the Epiphany. For many, reclaiming the beauty, …
