🕯️ Advent Week 1 — Hopeful Confusion
Friday 28th November — Day 1 Advent is the season of waiting and watching — the Church’s yearly invitation to lift our heads and look for Christ’s coming, in the world, in our lives, and in our hearts. It reminds us that God still breaks into the everyday world, still stirs our dull imaginations, still calls us to see differently.
Advent arrives again in two days’ time, Sunday 30th November. And so once again the season of Hopeful Confusion is upon us! In our Scriptures we will hear that Isaiah dreams of peace among nations; that the psalmist rejoices at Jerusalem’s gates; that Paul urges us to wake from sleep and put on the armour of light; and that Jesus calls us to stay awake, ready for the Son of Man. Each reading holds both uncertainty and hope: the world is unsettled, yet God is already at work. You can click the list of passages here to access the readings in full.
Isaiah 2 : 1–5 | Psalm 122 | Romans 13 : 11–14 | Matthew 24 : 36–44
And today, we meet a new friend. We will hear for the first time from the pilot who will accompany us through Advent. We are going to be reading from the 1940s novella The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupĂ©ry, and it begins with a pilot who explains that as ……
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