Advent 24 – JOY
A Message for the Third Sunday in Advent So, I finally got my car back this week. It has been a long nine months of walking – to church, to work, to the post office. One day, I even walked…
A Message for the Third Sunday in Advent So, I finally got my car back this week. It has been a long nine months of walking – to church, to work, to the post office. One day, I even walked…
LOVE. We’ve been on a journey. Over the past three weeks, we’ve journeyed through the season of Advent. On the first week of our journey, we lit the first candle of the Advent wreath and meditated on the theme, “HOPE”….
Happiness says, “I need signs!”. Joy says, “No signs needed”.
JOY. On this, the third week in Advent, we light the third candle of the Advent wreath – the pink, or rose, candle. And, we celebrate the third Sunday that preceeds the third week in Advent as “gaudete”, or “rejoice”,…
Can anyone guess what the theme of the third Sunday in Advent is? Published in Piae Cantiones, a collection of Finnish and Swedish sacred songs, in 1582, Gaudete, Latin for “Rejoice!”, is a sacred Christmas song. “The Latin text is…