December 2025
advent
01 - 12/25 /17:34
Sunday was the first Sunday of Advent. The church in which I grew up dismissed Advent as a Pope-ish tradition … if it was mentioned at all. It’s not a Pope-ish tradition. Advent is an ancient, simple, attractive Christian ritual that is increasingly celebrated as believers focus upon simple participation and away from stage and performance.
Advent’s origins are opaque. This candlelight ritual arose mysteriously and organically sometime during the fifth century in far western Europe. Advent originated among recent converts to Christianity, perhaps in Normandy or the Pyrenees mountains. It arose from cultures that had been animistic; believing that material objects—hills, trees, streams, Attila the Hun’s sword of mars—house some spiritual essence that impacts humanity. Read More…
Advent’s origins are opaque. This candlelight ritual arose mysteriously and organically sometime during the fifth century in far western Europe. Advent originated among recent converts to Christianity, perhaps in Normandy or the Pyrenees mountains. It arose from cultures that had been animistic; believing that material objects—hills, trees, streams, Attila the Hun’s sword of mars—house some spiritual essence that impacts humanity. Read More…