Tag: Advent
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Escaping Christmas
Let’s get to the desert.
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Rock Us into Joy
Virtual worship. What an unusual and intriguing phrase, one that has made its way into my everyday vocabulary. Covid-19 has not been able to stop faith communities from worshiping together in spirit and truth–in safe and socially distanced ways. Zoom worship windows, Facebook watch parties, YouTube gatherings, and more have become sacred spaces where people…
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Catching the Light
. . . and the stars will be falling from heaven. MARK 13:25 Apocalyptic stars make a grand appearance in the lectionary texts for the First Sunday of Advent. I was reminded of these Advent stars when I walked in my neighborhood a few nights ago. A crescent moon wandered up beneath two twinkling…
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Another Liturgical Year, Another Bare, Ruined Choir
I didn’t need to have a beloved liturgical space crushed into a parking lot to make the point stand out. But, thank you, 2020, it sure does help.
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Hark! It’s Harold!
When I was very little, I truly thought that “Harold” was an angel’s name, and that the man who owned and ran Harold’s Grocery down the block from our house was lucky to have an angel’s name for his store. (I also thought there was another angel named “Low.” Clearly I was not some sort…
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60-Second Sermon: 2nd Sunday in Advent
Rev. Ronald Raab, C.S.C. reflects on the Gospel Reading (Matthew 3:1-12) for the 2nd Sunday in Advent (8 December 2019) for our Sixty Second Sermon Series.
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Personal Reflections on the Gospel of the First Sunday of Advent, Year A
Like the people “before the flood” in Jesus’ discourse, something existentially shattering broke into my well-ordered world with both terror and hope.
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Can we give up Christmas this Advent?
The strife is o’er and the battle won…won by the dying mall—the elf on the shelf—and the peppermint mocha-flavored beverage I’m enjoying as I’m writing this.
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It is ALWAYS Advent!
Homiletic reflections on Advent from a probing and thoughtful theologian: Joseph Ratzinger.