Tag: advent
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Advent is commonly associated these days with a combination of calendars, chocolate, candles, or religious liturgy. The word comes from the Latin word adventus which means “coming” or “arrival” and is the four-week season of preparation for the coming of Jesus. You may think of preparation for Christmas as more of a busy time of…
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Lynn and I were discussing the meaning of Christmas one morning last week. My response was that the way we celebrate Christmas hardly represents what Christ’s birth should actually be about. Gift-giving is the centre of our celebration as we gather around enormous amounts of food and candy, paying our respects to our King and…
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