We love the Christian liturgical seasons, because over the course of a year they guide us through God's story of redemption. As a family we're trying to start traditions that help us mark time this way.
Right now we're in the season of Advent...the four weeks before Christmas when we excitedly anticipate the celebration of Christ's birth and also look forward to His second coming.
Each Sunday we have a special dinner (well, regular food but with wine and dessert--which is special for us), light our advent wreath candles, and read from the Book of Common Prayer, which includes Scripture passages and prayers.
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| Don't look too closely at our advent "wreath"...due to the lack of pine trees in Taiwan and my lack of preparation, ours is crafted from pipe cleaners and green paper. Thankfully, neither the wreath nor my drying sweater caught fire. Ha. |
The language might be a bit out-dated, but I love the Book of Common Prayer because it's beautiful and so...epic! It reminds me that we are part of God's grand, ever-continuing story...
"Almighty God, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life, in which thy Son Jesus Christ cam to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty to judge both the quick and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal, through him who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, now and ever. Amen."
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