Fourth Sunday of Advent

This Sunday the psalmist invites us to
Let the Lord enter; he is king of glory.
Be it done unto me.
Be it done unto me.

 

How can you who encompass all things
be encompassed by me?
In whose image I’m wondrously made,
be made, then, of me.

– from a song by Bob Hurd

 

 

 

Third Sunday of Advent

Gaudete!

This Sunday the psalmist invites us to pray:

Lord, come and save us
that we may celebrate life
in all its magnificence, multiplicity and mystery:
unbiddable, unstoppable, unquenchable. Amen

adapted: Nicola Slee

 

2nd Sunday of Advent

On that day, a shoot shall sprout from the stump of Jesse, and from his roots a bud shall blossom. – Isaiah 11

Maybe this week we could look for and spend some silent time with a tree that has been damaged but continues to grow – and ponder….

Gerald May, psychiatrist and theologian, suggests we reconnect with the natural world:

“We have been fractured… broken away from the nature of one another, broken apart from our own nature… We must allow ourselves to be healed…”

Let us begin again as, so often, did Cornelia Connelly.

 

First Sunday of Advent

On this first Sunday of Advent the psalmist urges us,

“Let us go rejoicing to the house of the Lord”
– trusting we will find light for our path
if only we open our eyes in humble places.