Advent: 25 December 2022
Merry Christmas! It’s Christmas Day and the final day of our Advent Calendar. We’ve reached the last letter of the alphabet. Z is for… Zzzzzzzzzz. It’s time for sleep! Now you may have found some of the calendar…
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Advent: 24 December 2022
Greetings… …on Christmas Eve. It’s the penultimate day in our Advent Calendar, and so the second last letter in the English alphabet – Y. Y is for… Yule. Yule was a midwinter festival observed by Germanic and Norse…
Advent: 23 December 2022
Good morning, Behind our window today is the letter X. X is for… not very much really. X-rays of ancient wood some think come from the actual manger? Xylophone version of Joy to the World? But X is also for Xmas. …
Advent: 21 December 2022
Good morning… …on this, the shortest day of the year – in the northern hemisphere. Our honorary Pagan Chaplain has organised for the third year a candlelit labyrinth which all are invited to walk this evening, on the…
Advent: 20 December 2022
Greetings, In our Advent A to Z we open the window today for the letter U. U is for… the University of St Andrews. And what I’ve found is a rare copy of directions for a University of St Andrews Nativity. It seems…
Advent: 19 December 2022
Good morning, As we begin the final working week before Christmas, it is time for T. And T is for… Truth. In the prologue to John’s gospel, we hear that “The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the…
Advent: 18 December 2022
Good afternoon, on the fourth Sunday in Advent, when a fourth candle was lit on advent wreaths in countless churches. Behind this window is the letter S, which could stand for stable, shepherds, strangers or the…
Advent: 17 December 2022
Good morning, We woke up yesterday to snow in St Andrews. For a few hours, the town was blanketed with snow, with white rooves, branches and pavements underfoot. As we’ve reached R in our Advent Calendar, what R was…
Advent: 16 December 2023
Greetings, We’ve reached a letter with the highest scrabble score of 10 in today’s Advent Calendar – Q. What could Q be for? Well, how about Quirinius, whom some children believe only appears in the Nativity story to…
Advent: 15 December 2022
Greetings, Behind today’s window in our Advent Calendar A to Z is the letter P. P is for… peace. In some ways, the Christmas story doesn’t have much about it that is peaceful. Mary is initially disturbed by the…