tradition
Mary Comforter of the Afflicted [biblical/traditional/art]
Mary of Nazareth, is the beating human heart, and the culmination of our focus in the Advent Season. She is remembered on the fourth Sunday of Advent as we, with her, are called by Gabriel to be open to the Spirit and bear Christ into the world in our own lives (Luke 1.26-38). In our …
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The Three Comings of the Lord [tradition]
“We know that there are three comings of the Lord. The third lies between the other two. It is invisible, while the other two are visible. In the first coming he was seen on earth, dwelling among men; he himself testifies that they saw him and hated him. In the final coming all flesh will …
Advent Collect [tradition/reflection]
Almighty God, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life, in which thy Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his …
St Lucia [tradition/reflection]
Today is December 13th and on this day, here in very protestant and very secular Sweden, almost everyone will, one way or the other, celebrate a rather unknown Sicilian saint called S:t Lucy or Sankta Lucia. She was a young woman who was martyred in Syracuse during the persecutions of the early 4th century. But how …
The Cell [tradition/reflection]
Abba Moses the Ethiopian was enslaved as a young man. He fled from his master and became a robber, living by violence, becoming the leader of the robbers due to his great strength and abundant energy. Overcome by conscience and penitent, he became a monk in the desert, eventually overcoming the burden of his physical …
A Christmas Carol [tradition/quote]
“There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say,’ returned the nephew. ‘Christmas among the rest. But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round—apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything …