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THE SONGS OF OUR LONGINGS
Meeting Christ in Ancient Advent Chants
Based on the Gospel readings for Year C, The Songs of Our Longings—Meeting Christ in Ancient Advent Chants brings together the seven verses of the Advent hymn, O Come, O Come, Emmanuel, with the O Antiphons and the longings they express. The journey that results from this recipe is startlingly relevant to the lives and world in which we live today.
Every chapter of The Songs of Our Longings speaks to our personal and collective yearning. Drawing on the poetry and symbolism of the O Antiphons, they invite us to seek what we need in Christ and in following his liberating way.
If you are searching for an Advent series that can offer hope, comfort, inspiration, and purpose for frail, flawed, and foolish humans doing their best to navigate this challenging world, The Songs of Our Longings is for you.
THE SONGS OF OUR LONGINGS
Meeting Christ in Ancient Advent Chants
Based on the Gospel readings for Year C, The Songs of Our Longings—Meeting Christ in Ancient Advent Chants brings together the seven verses of the Advent hymn, O Come, O Come, Emmanuel, with the O Antiphons and the longings they express. The journey that results from this recipe is startlingly relevant to the lives and world in which we live today.
Every chapter of The Songs of Our Longings speaks to our personal and collective yearning. Drawing on the poetry and symbolism of the O Antiphons, they invite us to seek what we need in Christ and in following his liberating way.
If you are searching for an Advent series that can offer hope, comfort, inspiration, and purpose for frail, flawed, and foolish humans doing their best to navigate this challenging world, The Songs of Our Longings is for you.
Week of 24 – 30 November 2024
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK This week is the last of the Church Year. Next week a new cycle begins with Advent Sunday, but before we get there, we take a moment to reflect, one last time, on who this Jesus is, and on what following Jesus means for us. This last Sunday of the Liturgical Calendar always focuses on the Reign of Christ and seeks to remind us that Christ is a Monarch, but of a very different kind, who rules over a realm of a very different kind. [...]
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Advent Sunday C
01 December 2024 As usual, the Advent readings speak of God’s constantly coming reign, and the need for us to be watchful to recognise it and receive it. The challenge, each year, is to ensure that this season doesn't fall prey to "same-old-same-old" thinking, preaching and worship. In tough times like these, we need the reminder that God is at work even in the most tragic places in our world, and our worship is an awesome opportunity to make bring our hope to life again. May our Advent worship [...]
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The Making of a Messiah
What Six hidden Women Can Teach Us About Jesus
The Making of a Messiah combines the stories of the five ‘hidden’ women in Matthew’s genealogy (and one additional woman from Luke) with the Lectionary readings for Year B to dive deep into the forces that shaped who Jesus was. Together, these six women lead us on a journey, through Advent and Christmas, to encounter Jesus in a new way and to understand both who he was and what his life means for us today.
Vision Quest
See More Clearly
Everything we see is a perspective. And that’s why Advent is such a powerful and transforming season in the Christian Calendar. In the journey from Advent Sunday to New Year’s Day, we are invited to open our eyes, hearts, minds, and souls to a new vision of reality. We are given a Divine Vision that empowers us to see more clearly and live more fully, authentically, and creatively.
What Are You Waiting For?
Listen to Your Longing
One of the most important things we can do to maximise the opportunity for growth and health that Advent and Christmas offer is to listen to our longings. When we listen to our hearts, we get in touch with what we really want in our lives. We connect with what would make us feel more fully alive and connected. We discover what really matters to us and what gives our lives a sense of meaning and purpose. And when we’ve taken note of what our longings tell us, we can then turn to the incarnate Christ to find out how to fulfil those longings!
Love Life
An Advent and Christmas Journey
LOVE LIFE explores the life of God that comes to us in Christ, and how the Advent and Christmas stories teach us to enter into God’s life more fully. It also challenges us to become carriers of God’s love and life into our corner of the world as we seek to be true disciples of Christ.
There’s a New World Coming
An Advent Journey
Based on the readings for the Revised Common Lectionary (Year B), offering thoroughly researched, preaching-focussed commentaries on both the Old Testament and Gospel passages for each Sunday, and providing theme-based liturgies, daily devotions and small group guidelines for each week, There‘s a New World Coming gives preachers and liturgists everything they need to ensure that the Advent journey is meaningful and transforming – in one complete package.
Living the Dream
An Advent Journey through Isaiah & Matthew
In four short weeks, we look ahead to the time of consummation in which God‟s purposes for the cosmos will be fulfilled and completed, and all things are made one and whole in Christ; we look back to the preaching of the prophets, right up to John the Baptiser; we look into a moment in history when Jesus lived and preached as a sign of God‟s Reign; and we look into our own hearts to discover how the ordinary details of our lives can reveal God‟s dream in our own time and place.