Once again we have come to the season of Christmas, and we do so with a feeling of fatigue having been bombarded by Christmas music for almost two months as the commercial world seeks to turn up the hype. In our increasingly consumerist society, many have been spending beyond their …
And so… We’ve arrived at the final week of another Advent season. I pray that in the stillness, you were able to hear the voice of God in clearer, more precise tones: that in hearing, you have been convinced of the fact that in the midst of all that seems …
Richard Rohr’s Daily Meditation From the Center for Action and Contemplation Contemplation Perceiving Reality All forms of contemplation share the same goal: to help us see through the deceptions of self and world in order to get in touch with what Howard Thurman called “the sound of the …
Every issue of THE ANGLICAN this year had a crossword puzzle! Did you do it? Well if you did here are the long-awaited answers! If you didn’t do it – well don’t spoil the fun – get your copies and do the crosswords. (Will upload April’s answers soon)
Today’s Gospel reading [Luke 3: 7 – 18] is, in essence, a continuation of last week’s and from all accounts, John the baptizer is pulling no punches in delivering his sermon. He is very direct in addressing the questions and concerns of those who had come to him, seeking baptism. …
In the Gospel reading for today, taken from Luke 3: 1 – 6, the evangelist places the message of John the baptizer, within historical and social contexts, that make both message and messenger, worthy of our pondering. There is no mistaking the fact that there were big-wigs at the time, …
Hello Everyone, it’s Advent time again. Advent is a season of preparation for the celebration of God’s incarnation. The season of Advent lasts for four Sundays leading up to Christmas. As a church, during Advent, we look back in celebration of Christ’s coming as a child, while at the same …
Lo, He comes with Clouds Descending! Once for favored sinners slain; thousand, thousand saints attending swell the triumph of his train. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! God appears on earth to reign. Every eye shall now behold him, robed in dreadful majesty; those who set at naught and sold him, pierced and …
Dear brothers and sisters, There is a sense in which the season of Advent can be regarded as a liturgical enigma: an odd and under-appreciated time, overshadowed in many respects these days, by the mercantile re-branding of Christmas that has sadly become the rule rather than the exception, for too …
