Lo! The First-born has opened unto us His feast as a treasure-house. This one day in the whole year alone opens that treasure-house: come, let us make gain, let us grow rich from it, ere they shut it up. Blessed be the watchful, that have taken by force from it the spoil of Life. It [...]
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The Feast of the Nativity
Posted in Advent, poetry, tagged Christmas, Ephrem the Syrian, Feast of the Nativity, hymn, hymnody, St. Ephrem, Syrian, Syrian Orthodoxy on 25 December, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Awake, mankind!
Posted in Advent, tagged Advent, Christmas, Christmas Eve, Divine Office, Liturgy of the Hours, Office of Readings, St Augustine of Hippo on 24 December, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Awake, mankind! For your sake God has become man. Awake, you who sleep, rise up from the dead, and Christ will enlighten you. I tell you again: for your sake, God became man. You would have suffered eternal death, had he not been born in time. Never would you have been freed from sinful flesh, [...]
Fourth Week of Advent: Tuesday
Posted in Advent, tagged Advent, Annunciation, Annunciation of the Lord, Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary, Divine Office, Gospel of Luke, Liturgy of the Hours, Luke, Luke 1.26-28, Office of Readings, St Bernard, Virgin Mary on 20 December, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
You have heard, O Virgin, that you will conceive and bear a son; you have heard that it will not be by man but by the Holy Spirit. The angel awaits an answer; it is time for him to return to God who sent him. We too are waiting, O Lady, for your word of [...]
immaculate
Posted in Advent, tagged Divine Office, feast days, Feast of the Immaculate Conception, immaculate, Immaculate Conception, Jesus Christ, Liturgy of the Hours, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholicism, St Anselm, St Anselm of Canterbury, Virgin Mary on 8 December, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The universe rejoices with new and indefinable loveliness. Not only does it feel the unseen presence of God himself, its creator, it sees him openly, working and making it holy. These great blessings spring from the blessed fruit of Mary’s womb. Saint Anselm of Canterbury, bishop. – Today is the Feast of the Immaculate Conception [...]
Second Week of Advent: Wednesday
Posted in Advent, tagged Advent, Apostles' Creed, Augustine, creed, Divine Office, Liturgy of the Hours, Nicine Creed, St Augustine of Hippo on 8 December, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
He has promised men divinity, mortals immortality, sinners justification, the poor a rising in glory… Therefore, the only Son of God was to come among men, to take the nature of men, and in this nature to be born as a man. He was to die, to rise again, to ascend into heaven, to sit [...]
Second Week of Advent: Tuesday
Posted in Advent, tagged Advent, apocalypse, apocalypticism, Book of Isaiah, Divine Office, eschatology, Isaiah 21.19-20, Liturgy of the Hours, Lumen Gentium, Second Vatican Council, Vatican II on 6 December, 2011 | 1 Comment »
On that day the earth will burst asunder, the earth will be shaken apart the earth will be convulsed. The earth will reel like a drunkard, and it will sway like a hut; Its rebellion will weigh it down, until it falls, never to rise again. (21.19-20) The Book of Isaiah – The end of [...]
Practice peace together
Posted in Advent, tagged 2 Peter 3:8, Advent, C. Kavin Rowe, Duke Divinity School, Duke University on 4 December, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Advent is a season of remembrance and expectation. It also points us to the second advent of Christ. 2 Peter 3:8 reads: “with the Lord one day is like a thousand years and a thousand years like one day.” Though this verse has been used in various ways, in 2 Peter it’s sage pastoral counsel. [...]
First Week of Advent: Saturday
Posted in Advent, poetry, tagged Advent, hymnody, Marty Haugen, My soul in stillness waits on 3 December, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
For you, O lord, my soul in stillness waits. Truly my hope is in you O Lord of Light, our only hope of glory, your radiance shines in all who look to you. Come light the hearts of all in dark and shadow. For you, O lord, my soul in stillness waits. Truly my hope [...]
First Week of Advent: Friday
Posted in Advent, tagged Advent, Divine Office, Liturgy of the Hours, Office of Readings, Proslogian, Saint Anselm on 2 December, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Little man, rise up! Flee your preoccupations for a little while. Hide yourself for a time from your turbulent thoughts. Cast aside, now, your heavy responsibilities and put off your burdensome business. Make a little space free for God; and rest for a little time in him. Saint Anselm, bishop, Proslogion
First Week of Advent: Tuesday
Posted in Advent, tagged Advent, Divine Office, Jesus Christ, John the Baptist, Liturgy of the Hours, Office of Readings, St Gregory Nazianzen on 29 November, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Christ, the light of all lights, follows John, the lamp that goes before him. The Word of God follows the voice in the wilderness; the bridegroom follows the bridegroom’s friend, who prepares a worthy people for the Lord by cleansing them by water in preparation for the Spirit. Saint Gregory Nazianzen, bishop.
