L/V 10 Tip of the Day #20 Advent is coming ... or has, or will on Sunday, or will on Thursday, or ..
Another tip of the day (TOTD) series for Logos/Verbum 10. They will be short and often drawn from forum posts. Feel free to ask questions and/or suggest forum posts you'd like to see included. Adding comments about the behavior on mobile and web apps would be appreciated by your fellow forumites. A search for "L/V 10 Tip of the Day site:community.logos.com" on Google should bring the tips up.
This tip is based on the blog post: Advent Ideas: 3 Counter-Cultural Paths to Christmas (logos.com) Assume that reading plans and prayer lists are your most relevant Logos/Verbum tools.
- Advent starts November 15 Advent Resources - Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America (goarch.org)
- Advent starts the 4th Sunday before Christmas What Is Advent? Meaning, Origin, and How It's Celebrated (learnreligions.com)
- Advent starts December 1 is a commercial invention so that new calendars don't have to be printed each year.
Bible oriented Advent activities
- Jesse tree The Jesse Tree: A Guide to the Advent Tradition | Faithward.org
- O Antiphons O Antiphons - Wikipedia
Advent readings:
- Not light weight but packed with interesting information The Birth of the Messiah: A Commentary on the Infancy Narratives in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke - Verbum makes great Advent reading ... and to shorten the readings a bit, you can continue it through the 12 days of Christmas.
- For the seasons of Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany, I absolutely love Sermons for Advent and the Christmas Season - Verbum
What suggestions would you add?
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."