Veery Huleatt,First Things
Advent is the season of watching and waiting, but it is also, and as the days draw nearer to Christmas,a time of hastening. There are lists of people to write to, presents to assume up, and to get or fabricate (to make up, invent),to wrap and have delivered. Nor is it just the commerce of getting and giving. There is also a spiritual urgency, our eagerness for the Lord's coming. Grant your faithful, or we pray,almighty God, the resolve to run forth to meet your Christ, and goes the collect for the first Sunday of Advent.
And,in the space between our secular and liturgical hurrying, there are carolsmany of which...
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