Advent Calendars are used to count-down the days of Advent leading up to Christmas Eve.  At the time they were first introduced, in the late 19th or early 20th century, the opening of a “window” on each of the days might reveal a picture, a prayer or a quotation from Scripture appropriate to incorporate into daily…

THE SEASON of Advent means there is something on the horizon the likes of which we have never seen before… What is possible is to not see it, to miss it, to turn just as it brushes past you. And you begin to grasp what it was you missed, like Moses in the cleft of…