Moving Advent

Notes: The author, a retired Anglican priest and Ontario Public Service Chaplain, proposes "some calendar revisions that may allow us to enjoy Advent in the mentality of its more recent symbolic royal blue instead of the old penitential purple, making Advent feel like a mini Lent". "By adding Sundays immediately before Christmas Eve and Day, we can have time for in-depth incarnational preaching and teaching and time to celebrate with material that will help us to prepare spiritually for the observance of the Holy Nativity. It is a more positive way of preparing for and anticipating the Christmas celebration that is less guilt inducing because of robbing Christmas".

Subjects: Advent - Anglican Church of Canada; Church calendar - Anglican Church of Canada; Church year - Anglican Church of Canada