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Tag Archives: Advent
Wednesday, December 18, 2019 — Festivities of Joy — Lighting the Dark
God, for the kindness of lights I am so deeply grateful — for houses with discreet candles or a decorated tree in a window, others with bushes and trees festooned with nets of lights, (the wiggly icicles rimming eves don’t … Continue reading
December 10, 2018 — prayer from “The Friendly Beasts”
Thus every beast by some glad spell, in the stable dark was glad to tell of the gift they gave Emmanuel, the gift they gave Emmanuel. “The Friendly Beasts,” 12th-century France, current English words, Robert Davis, 1920’s. (additional appreciation – … Continue reading
Guest posting to begin Advent — Rosalie Sugrue and Bill Jones
Gifts I have received from Bill Jones include a hymn which uses all four of the Advent Sundays — Hope, Peace, Joy and Love. And from Rosalie Sugrue an antiphonal prayer to begin the season! Prayer of Approach (read antiphonally) … Continue reading
Advent — December 20, 2017, Ghost or Gabriel?
God, I am never sure if they are ghosts or angel-messengers that visit. They could tap the calendar in any place — the Ghost of Valentines Past would be a hard visit, and the Ghost of Easter Yet to Come … Continue reading
Advent — December 18, 2017
(In A Christmas Carol, the Ghost of Christmas Yet to come shows Scrooge a pawn shop where in one possible future the sheets and curtains of his bed and the clothes he died in would be sold) God, it’s … Continue reading
Advent — December 5, 2017
(In A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge is taken by the Ghost of Christmas Past to a Christmas party thrown by his first employer Fezziwig) Lover of parties, good food and holiday decorations, who strung the first and biggest outdoor light … Continue reading
Advent, 2017 First Sunday in Advent, December 3, 2017
In this shortest of all Advents, three weeks only, old Dickens and his Christmas Carol seem to be calling me. Such a simple thing — a week learning from the Ghost of Christmas Past and a week with the Ghost … Continue reading
La celebración del Adviento 2017 (desde Puerto Rico)
I am deeply grateful to Pastor Wilma Quiñones Cubero for this celebration of Advent, 2017 written while using her cell phone in Puerto Rico (unable to connect using any other method due to the lack of electricity since hurricane Maria) Pastora … Continue reading
Advent Wreath Candlelighting, Homage to Cláudio Carvalhaes
I was at an event at Union Theological Seminary a couple weeks ago called “Got Sermon.” It was pre-Advent (and there will be another one pre-Lent) One workshop was rituals of Lament for Advent from wonderful worship professor Cláudio Carvalhaes … Continue reading
Improv on THE END OF IT – the final scene in Charles Dickens’ Christmas Carol
“Yes! and the bedpost is my own. The bed and the room are my own. Best and happiest of all, the time was … well, either one day or three hundred and sixty five days! What an abundance – either … Continue reading
