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Comment by Revnelli on December 12, 2009 at 12:17pm

Call me a misery guts, but I was reflecting on the 'new' approach to advent, and decided I like to old one. It seems to me that the church is buying into a secular approach to xmas which has the celebration in the build up and then moves on to something else. I want to value a season of penitance and preparation in advent as in lent, and then a season of celebration in christmas and epiphany (and easter). I'm into 'prepare the way of the Lord' as a call to self examination - which I see as frequently missing in our culture of business and denial.
So I'm making my congregation say long individual confessions, which I'm recording for posterity, before they are allowed in to xmas communion. OK not really, but I did preach on the prayer of humble access recently.

Comment by Derrick Smith on December 11, 2009 at 11:00am

I was talking to a clergy friend the other day and we got onto the topic of the "Gloria" being left out during Advent. It seems that the way in which we celebrate Advent has changed over the years. It is not seen as heavy time of penitence, but more of expectation, waiting.
The other thought I had was, if Sunday is celebrated as a mini Easter, then we should be celebrating with joy, and not beating ourselves up with guilt. Any way tha's my thought for this Advent.

Comment by Derrick Smith on October 30, 2009 at 8:54am

i keep popping in to see what is going on with our group, no one seems to be starting any discussions? Whats up with that

Comment by Derrick Smith on October 1, 2009 at 10:08am

I was wondering if any one is interested in talking about the state of the Anglican communion? Is the communion a real or imagined community? Blessing's Derrick

Comment by Richard Geoffrey Leggett on August 13, 2008 at 3:07pm

Dear Malcolm,

Thank you for starting this group. I'm about to go on holiday, so I'll probably be just following along for a bit.

Richard