Advent: 10 December 2022
Greetings, We open the window for 10 December today in our Advent Calendar A to Z and discover the letter K inside. K is for… King and Kingdom. This has been the year when Prince Charles became King. He’ll give his…
Greetings, We open the window for 10 December today in our Advent Calendar A to Z and discover the letter K inside. K is for… King and Kingdom. This has been the year when Prince Charles became King. He’ll give his…
Greetings, Our Advent Calendar has reached a letter full of possibilities – J. J could be for Joseph, who was betrothed to Mary, or Jerusalem, where the Magi first travelled. But instead, let’s focus on the J whose…
Good morning, on Thursday 8 December, which means that behind our Advent Calendar window we find the letter I. I is, of course, for the place Jesus wasn’t born – the inn, in which there was no room. Instead he was…
Greetings, This Advent Calendar comes to you from London, where I’ll be conducting the University’s London Alumni Club’s Carol Service this evening. We’ll be gathering at St Columba’s Church of Scotland, Pont Street…
Greetings, A happy St Nicholas’ Day to you – einen schönen St. Nikolaustag. I hope, if you put your boots outside your door last night, they were filled with good things. Behind today’s window in our Advent Calendar…
Greetings, We’ve reached the letter F in our Advent Calendar A to Z. And F is for… Family. After all, what is the Christmas story but the growing of a family, the birth of Mary’s first child, who would be brought up…
Good morning, …on this the second Sunday of Advent. Behind today’s window in our Advent Calendar we discover that E is for Epiphany. This is the word used in English for the feast on 6 January for the coming of the…
Good morning, Today’s window is the fourth in our Advent Calendar A to Z. And D is for… David. David was King of Israel around a thousand years before the birth of Jesus. He was a shepherd-lad who was chosen by God…
Good morning, Behind today’s window in our Advent Calendar A to Z is the letter C. C could of course be for candles, cards or crackers – or Christmas itself. But instead, in our calendar, C is for… carols. Carols…
Welcome to the second day of the A to Z Advent Calendar, drawing on quotations from my newly digitised collection – and thank you for initial responses to yesterday’s window. B is for… the Baptist. During Advent we…