I really love Christmas. Unlike many of my Christmas-loving friends, however, I try to be really strict on when I start decorating/celebrating – I like to start with Advent, the first event of the Church’s liturgical Calendar.
Liturgical calendar?
We have one of those?
For those of us outside of the mainline churches (which is most of you who read this), the liturgical calendar is the ordering of the holidays, big and small, important to the Church that happen throughout the year. It starts in December with Advent. The Church starts then, and as a (albeit small) measure of discipline, I’m not starting to celebrate or blog about it til then. But, like in years of steady-blogging past, I will be commenting on Christmas steadily throughout the season.
As a preview, here’s something I picked up off of Jeff Smyth’s blog, Paradox of Living, about something I seriously think about every year:
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