Anglican Compass is excited to showcase a variety of holiday-themed events hosted by churches across the Anglican Church in North America.
Review: Eighth Day Prayers (Volume 1)
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.
10 Ways to Preach the Advent Sunday Sermon
Here, I offer ten sermon prompts for the first Sunday of Advent, or Advent Sunday, which can also apply to the following three Sundays of Advent.
Waiting & Wonder: Reclaiming the Beauty of Advent and Christmas
What if we reclaimed the seasons of Advent and Christmas as two distinct but deeply connected times of preparation and celebration?
Book Review: The Soul’s Pilgrimage – Volume 1: From Advent to Pentecost by Robert D. Crouse
This collect of Father Robert Crouseโs homilies illuminate the transcendent meaning of each week of the liturgical year.
The History of the Advent Collects
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…
Today in the Spirit: Advent 4B
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 โYeshuaโ (โthe one who deliversโ) into the world. In Advent 4, Year B, the assigned Gospel reading from Luke 1:26-38 relates the narrative of…
The Good Grief of Advent: Living in the Longing
For some, happiness is very elusive this time of year. Therefore, it’s appropriate that Advent is here to give voice to our melancholy.
Today in the Spirit: Advent 3B
It is the Advent 3B selection of readings that really puts the joy in โJoy Sunday.โ All four readings include either an explicit exhortation for Godโs people to rejoice in the Lord or a testimony of joy from the narratorโs heart. Since all that Mark has to say about John the Baptist before Jesusโ arrival…
Today in the Spirit: Advent 2B
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…