Advent Reflections :: 2010

Reflection 26 – Christmas Day REFLECT Well, you made it safely through Advent and arrived at Christmas day. Well done Hopefully your Advent was a useful one. Hopefully you used it to reflect, to pray, to do good things, and to prepare yourself for Christmas and hopefully is changed you in some way. Our journey [...]

Reflection 25 – Christmas Eve, December 24th N.B. There will be a reflection tomorrow (Christmas Day) to round things off. REFLECT This is the last day of Advent and the day before Christmas. Tomorrow, we arrive at the thing we have been waiting for and preparing for. At the start of Advent, we said that [...]

Reflection 24 – Wednesday of the Fourth Week in Advent, December 22nd REFLECT When Christmas comes along, a lot of important ideas and themes can get lost in the middle of everything else. One thing that almost never gets lost though is the idea of gifts. Even for people who don’t follow the Christian faith, [...]

Reflection 23 – Tuesday of the Fourth Week in Advent, December 21st REFLECT One of the things we remember in Advent is the Journey Mary and Joseph took from Nazareth to Bethlehem. A census had been declared and everybody had to make their way back to the place they came from in order to be [...]

Reflection 22 – Monday of the Fourth Week in Advent, December 20th REFLECT Let’s take another look at yesterday’s Gospel reading. This was the last Sunday Gospel before Christmas, and it shows us something interesting about Joseph, the man who was betrothed to Mary. “Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. [...]

Reflection 21 – Fourth Sunday of Advent, December 19th REFLECT Below is a short video to watch, but first of all a bit of background. Rick & Dick Hoyt are a Father and Son team from America. Rick is quite severely disabled. He can’t walk or talk, or do that much without a great deal [...]

Reflection 20 – Saturday of the Third Week of Advent, December 18th REFLECT One thing that is talked about a lot in the Church is peace. Jesus talked about it, Jesus left us peace, the Church talks about it, we talk about it to each other, nations talk about it and there are huge organisations [...]

Reflection 19 – Friday of the Third Week of Advent, December 17th REFLECT For most people reading this in the UK, today will be the last day of school before the Christmas/ New Year holidays. Even if that’s not the case for you, then this will still have some relevance. Whenever we come to the [...]

Reflection 18 – Thursday of the Third Week of Advent, December 16th REFLECT In the Gospel Jesus told his disciples that those who loved their lives would lose them and that those who lost their lives for his sake would find them. [Mt 10:39] Jesus wasn’t being literal here, don’t worry! He didn’t actually mean [...]

Reflection 17 – Wednesday of the Third Week of Advent, December 15th REFLECT We come back today to the topic of prayer – something which is hugely important to Christian life and something which we can use Advent as a great chance to boost in our lives. It’s nice to think of prayer as quality [...]