Advent

Today is the First Sunday in Advent, the first day in the liturgical season of Advent, which is the beginning of the Christian year.

As Father Chip Harper writes in his liturgy lesson for this Sunday:

Our Fathers in the Faith have chosen Scriptures accenting three Advents: the Advent of Christ's physical birth in Bethlehem, the Advent of Christ coming into our own lives, and the Advent of his Second Coming at the history's end.

We will begin the service today with blessing and lighting the...