Advent distractions
Image by MusikschuleMOI from Pixabay It's my habit to have several Advent books on the go. Here's this year's list: • Donkey Roads and Camel Treks by Gemma Simmonds • Beginnings and Endings by Maggi Dawn • Christ Illuminated by Joy Margetts, fellow ACW writer • O Come Emmanuel, a beautiful little anthology on the Advent antiphons (look them up!), delicately illustrated by Korean artist SunYoung Kim. The contributors include Tanya Marlow, who will be well known to many ACW members, and whose own Advent book, Those Who Wait , is also on my reading list. • Advent: The Once and Future Coming of Jesus Christ by Episcopal priest Fleming Rutledge, a collection of her excellent Advent sermons over some 20 years. It’s a big, fat book but not difficult to read, I just dip in and find something juicy to get my teeth into. Advent is such a rich season, biblically and liturgically. As I often remind people in my own sermons, Advent is as much about our Lord’s Secon...