Advent Archives - Anglican Journal https://anglicanjournal.com/tag/advent/ National News from the Anglican Church of Canada Tue, 07 Feb 2023 22:03:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://anglicanjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/AJ-logo-01.svg Advent Archives - Anglican Journal https://anglicanjournal.com/tag/advent/ 32 32 170042892 December issue offers visions of hope for Advent https://anglicanjournal.com/december-issue-offers-visions-of-hope-for-advent/ https://anglicanjournal.com/december-issue-offers-visions-of-hope-for-advent/#respond Wed, 01 Dec 2021 16:14:05 +0000 https://www.anglicanjournal.com/?p=170050 The hope of the Christmas season shines through the dark of winter in the December issue of the Anglican Journal.

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/december-issue-offers-visions-of-hope-for-advent/feed/ 0 170050 ‘Words that down the ages ring’ https://anglicanjournal.com/words-that-down-the-ages-ring/ https://anglicanjournal.com/words-that-down-the-ages-ring/#respond Wed, 01 Dec 2021 14:00:31 +0000 https://www.anglicanjournal.com/?p=170000 Each year, I wait to hear the familiar words from the Gospel of St. Luke that for me are the portal into Christmas Eve.

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/words-that-down-the-ages-ring/feed/ 0 170000 Pandemic, Advent and the church https://anglicanjournal.com/pandemic-advent-and-the-church/ https://anglicanjournal.com/pandemic-advent-and-the-church/#respond Mon, 21 Dec 2020 14:39:40 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=166670 I started at St. Saviour’s Anglican Church, Winnipeg, in February 2015 as an interim priest and was appointed incumbent in September 2016. During the interim period and through discussion and prayerful consideration, the parish delineated “Cultivating and Nurturing a Culture of Inclusion” as an overarching theme and focus for its ministry. We evaluated the church’s […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/pandemic-advent-and-the-church/feed/ 0 166670 Giving the hope of Incarnation (and goats)—even in isolation https://anglicanjournal.com/giving-the-hope-of-incarnation-and-goats-even-in-isolation/ https://anglicanjournal.com/giving-the-hope-of-incarnation-and-goats-even-in-isolation/#respond Sun, 20 Dec 2020 14:14:56 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=166328 Welcoming the Christ child from a safe distance doesn’t mean that we can’t celebrate the Incarnation in tangible ways, writes Canon David Harrison. It is surely not without irony that as we approach the fleshliest and most intimate of our Christian holy days, we are being enjoined to keep distance from one another. Just as […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/giving-the-hope-of-incarnation-and-goats-even-in-isolation/feed/ 0 166328 On the Plain of Waiting https://anglicanjournal.com/on-the-plain-of-waiting/ https://anglicanjournal.com/on-the-plain-of-waiting/#respond Sat, 19 Dec 2020 14:42:13 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=166334 Beneath the towering umber faces of Mount Sinai lies a broad, empty valley called the Plain of Waiting. Bounded by peaks that rise sharply out of the south Sinai, the Plain of Waiting is where tradition says the people of Israel waited and waited in a howling desolation. Dislocated from familiar things, reduced to a […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/on-the-plain-of-waiting/feed/ 0 166334 ‘Lessons and Carols’ for this Advent https://anglicanjournal.com/lessons-and-carols-for-this-advent/ https://anglicanjournal.com/lessons-and-carols-for-this-advent/#respond Wed, 16 Dec 2020 22:06:34 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=166766 A special gift of the Anglican tradition to the Christian world is the annual festival of Scripture lessons and Christmas carols, both for Advent and Christmas, which originated in King’s College Chapel, Cambridge, UK. This year, due to the pandemic, participation in these services will be different for many. But in a way, not for […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/lessons-and-carols-for-this-advent/feed/ 0 166766 ‘We’re all rooting for you’ https://anglicanjournal.com/were-all-rooting-for-you/ https://anglicanjournal.com/were-all-rooting-for-you/#comments Wed, 16 Dec 2020 14:01:05 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=166325 Reflections on beginning in ministry I can tell by the way you’re searching For something you can’t even name That you haven’t been able to come to the table Simply glad that you came. -Mary Chapin Carpenter, Jubilee I can now sleep the night before I preach—soundly, even, if I’m lucky. But there were many […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/were-all-rooting-for-you/feed/ 1 166325 ‘God is waiting for us’ https://anglicanjournal.com/god-is-waiting-for-us/ https://anglicanjournal.com/god-is-waiting-for-us/#respond Wed, 09 Dec 2020 20:09:07 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=166179 As COVID-19 propels us towards a different kind of Christmas, this Advent could be a time for considering God’s expectations for Christians and the church, says Newfoundland priest and theological studies professor Robert Cooke.

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/god-is-waiting-for-us/feed/ 0 166179 Why Christmas isn’t my favourite season https://anglicanjournal.com/why-christmas-isnt-my-favourite-season/ https://anglicanjournal.com/why-christmas-isnt-my-favourite-season/#comments Wed, 09 Dec 2020 15:07:47 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=166345 For many years Christ Church Cathedral hosted readings of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Co-sponsored by CBC radio, these enormously popular readings were held across Canada bringing communities together to hear Dickens’s much-loved tale of the transformation of Ebenezer Scrooge from a grumpy miser into a generous benefactor. There was something appealing about being […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/why-christmas-isnt-my-favourite-season/feed/ 1 166345 Longing and living in our Advent lockdown https://anglicanjournal.com/longing-and-living-in-our-advent-lockdown/ https://anglicanjournal.com/longing-and-living-in-our-advent-lockdown/#respond Wed, 09 Dec 2020 13:39:36 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=166320 In Manitoba, as I write this, we have completed our second week of critical level restrictions. “What? It’s only been two weeks?” is an understandable response to this statement. It seems like a lot longer. Of course, we have had numerous restrictions in place for months, but our experience of this most intense level has […]

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