FR TONY UPDATE
ADVENT PONDERINGS
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Our Tony continues to do well with his recovery. He's slowly building up steam, aiming for Sunday, when he'll be back in the saddle. If you live in the area, please do plan to join us at church during this season of Advent, leading up to the CHRISTMAS EVE.
THIS SUNDAY:
RITE 1 - 8:00 am.
Becket Choir REHEARSAL - 9:15
ADULT ED – 9:15, Parish Hall
CHILDREN'S CHOIR REHEARSAL – 9:45, Music Corner
RITE 2 EUCHARIST - 10:30 the Rev. Anthony Clavier, Celebrant
SUNDAY SCHOOL – 10:30, Sunday School Room <---- Awesome program, this!! (children join their family for communion)
Becket Choir REHEARSAL - 9:15
ADULT ED – 9:15, Parish Hall
CHILDREN'S CHOIR REHEARSAL – 9:45, Music Corner
RITE 2 EUCHARIST - 10:30 the Rev. Anthony Clavier, Celebrant
SUNDAY SCHOOL – 10:30, Sunday School Room <---- Awesome program, this!! (children join their family for communion)
Sunday, December 23:
Advent 4 LESSONS & CAROLS!
After 10:30 service – Hanging of the greens and Sunday School Bake Sale.
Monday, December 24
5 pm FAMILY CHRISTMAS EVE
Rite 2 w/ Children's Pageant
10 pm Christmas Music
10:30 pm CHRISTMAS EVE SERVICE:
Rite 2 Eucharist
Advent 4 LESSONS & CAROLS!
After 10:30 service – Hanging of the greens and Sunday School Bake Sale.
Monday, December 24
5 pm FAMILY CHRISTMAS EVE
Rite 2 w/ Children's Pageant
10 pm Christmas Music
10:30 pm CHRISTMAS EVE SERVICE:
Rite 2 Eucharist
ADVENT PONDERINGS
The paradox of the IncarnationAdvent is a time for meditating on the Incarnation—on what it means for God to become human in Jesus of Nazareth. Kathleen Norris writes in Amazing Grace: a vocabulary of faith of the two extremes we tend toward in thinking of the Incarnation.
I began to realize that one of the most difficult things about believing in Christ is to resist the temptation to dis-incarnate him, to not accept him as both fully human and fully divine. The normal human tendency is to succumb to the errors that Gregory Wolfe, the editor of Image magazine, delineates in his recent book "The New Religious Humanists:"
I began to realize that one of the most difficult things about believing in Christ is to resist the temptation to dis-incarnate him, to not accept him as both fully human and fully divine. The normal human tendency is to succumb to the errors that Gregory Wolfe, the editor of Image magazine, delineates in his recent book "The New Religious Humanists:"
"When emphasis is placed on the divine at the expense of the human (the conservative error), Jesus becomes an ethereal authority figure who is remote from earthly life and experience. When he is thought of as merely human (the liberal error), he becomes nothing more than a superior social worker or a popular guru."
The orthodox Christian seeks another way, that of living with paradox, of accepting the ways that seeming dualities work together in Jesus Christ, and in our lives.
The gift of Advent is to accept the paradox of the Incarnation in recognizing that Jesus was and is both human and divine and so the Lord whose coming we anticipate knows our hopes and fears, our joys and sorrows, better than any distant divinity and is more truly present to us and able to save us than any human, no matter how exemplary.
The gift of Advent is to accept the paradox of the Incarnation in recognizing that Jesus was and is both human and divine and so the Lord whose coming we anticipate knows our hopes and fears, our joys and sorrows, better than any distant divinity and is more truly present to us and able to save us than any human, no matter how exemplary.
Excerpted from King of Peace Episcopal Church Blog
