Tag: Christmas Eve
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Advent 2022: Christmas Eve, Galatians 3:23-4:7
It seems convoluted at the outset, but it is a beautiful aspect of the BCP that the assigned readings finish with the stretch from 3:23 and ends with 4:7. Magnificent! Today is Christmas Eve, you should go to church tonight. Sing the songs. Hear the lessons. Pray your prayers. Light the candles. Eat the bread…
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ADVENT 2013–WEEK THREE AND CHRISTMAS EVE
When many of us think about Christmas, music dominates. Whether it is Bing Crosby, Eartha Kitt, Messiah, or Christmas Cantatas at church we always associate the Christmas holiday with beautiful music. The third week of Advent brings us to Revelation 6, which has some of the early church’s greatest worship songs and they serve as…
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4TH WEEK OF ADVENT: LUKE 1:1-80
Merry Christmas everyone! Tonight is Christmas Eve, and in order to finish all my Advent translating I worked through thirty verses yesterday and then another thirty today. I really feel like I’m inside Luke’s head. The reading for this week moved away from Matthew and into familiar Christmasy passages from Luke 1. Tomorrow I will…