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Review: Eighth Day Prayers (Volume 1)

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Eighth Day Prayers: Daily Hope for Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany, takes the focus on Christ’s incarnation deep into the heart, inviting us to a place of deep spiritual reflection in God’s presence as we enter the darkest yet most hopeful time of the year.

The History of the Advent Collects

Posted on December 22, 2023
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The four Advent collects offer both a concise introduction to the season of Advent and a rich overview of the grace God offers to sinners. These collects thereby present, in microcosm, the Anglican Way as a Catholic and Reformed religion. As expressed in these collects, Anglicans hold to the great themes of the historic Christian…

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Today in the Spirit: Advent 4B

Posted on December 17, 2023
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The festival day is at hand, yet the Church would have us linger longer in Advent, contemplating all that God the Father has done to foretell and prepare the arrival of โ€œYeshuaโ€ (โ€œthe one who deliversโ€) into the world. In Advent 4, Year B, the assigned Gospel reading from Luke 1:26-38 relates the narrative of…

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Today in the Spirit: Advent 3B

Posted on December 10, 2023
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It is the Advent 3B selection of readings that really puts the joy in โ€œJoy Sunday.โ€ All four readings include either an explicit exhortation for Godโ€™s people to rejoice in the Lord or a testimony of joy from the narratorโ€™s heart. Since all that Mark has to say about John the Baptist before Jesusโ€™ arrival…

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Today in the Spirit: Advent 2B

Posted on December 3, 2023
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Like many of our favorite movies, Advent 2 takes us, suddenly, to a flashback in time from the noise and upheaval of the Son of Man coming on the clouds to the silence of the Judean wilderness and the sight of a strange man dwelling there. In the Gospel of Mark, though it is shorter…