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Approaching the Nativity: An Advent Journey
I love how we as Christians begin each new, liturgical year with the season of Advent. It feels particularly appropriate to start fresh with the anticipation of Christ's coming at Christmas: His birth into history & His renewed arrival in our hearts.
Over the next few weeks, as we light each new candle on the four Sundays of Advent, I thought it might be fruitful to take a closer look at the people who assemble in our creches and our nativity stories. By tracing the light and shadow of their shapes, may we draw ever nearer to the Christchild Himself, there in the manger.
Over the next few weeks, as we light each new candle on the four Sundays of Advent, I thought it might be fruitful to take a closer look at the people who assemble in our creches and our nativity stories. By tracing the light and shadow of their shapes, may we draw ever nearer to the Christchild Himself, there in the manger.
11 pages, ebook
Published January 1, 2024
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December 23, 2024
This was quite an unexpected advent devotional for me, especially given the fact that it is a Catholic-based one, but it has been pretty much one of the ones that I enjoyed the most.
Approaching the Nativity is a weekly devotional that takes a look at individual groups that participated in the Nativity while providing one unexpected group at the start that got me to thinking a bit outside the box. That is definitely something I love with a good study is to be able to see something I wouldn't have looked at on my own.
Furthermore the devotional is illustrated with actual colored photographs of Belmont Abbey College that are snow-decked statues or scenes that are just as much suitable for the season. And at the bottom of each week's entry is a small spot where some candles have been added - one for each week until you get to the last week of Advent.
Although rather a simple and one page of text per week devotional. readers who are keeping to Advent may find this a nice little refresher on the cast of characters who helped to play a part in the story of Christ's birth.
Approaching the Nativity is a weekly devotional that takes a look at individual groups that participated in the Nativity while providing one unexpected group at the start that got me to thinking a bit outside the box. That is definitely something I love with a good study is to be able to see something I wouldn't have looked at on my own.
Furthermore the devotional is illustrated with actual colored photographs of Belmont Abbey College that are snow-decked statues or scenes that are just as much suitable for the season. And at the bottom of each week's entry is a small spot where some candles have been added - one for each week until you get to the last week of Advent.
Although rather a simple and one page of text per week devotional. readers who are keeping to Advent may find this a nice little refresher on the cast of characters who helped to play a part in the story of Christ's birth.
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