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“…It is important to walk through Advent slowly…There are so many characters and stories, so many political and social headlines and sidelines, so many details and rumours and machinations. There is so much going on that it is easy to be distracted and to miss what God is doing in the midst of it all,” says Archbishop Jeremy
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Check out this excerpt from the latest Anglican Board of Mission devotional, Caravan — a stunning book of incarnational stories based on Jesus’ birth, set in an Australian landscape, and written by The Rev’d Canon Stephen Daughtry for group or individual reflection
“Surely, we, like John, can inhabit the challenges and tensions in our world with courage, looking outward, unconfined by the structure and the scaffolding. We can and should confound expectations: in justice, in generosity and in compassion. A new kind of future is ahead,” said The Ven. Lizzie Gaitskell in her Synod 2023 sermon
“While John the Baptist’s ascetic life isn’t attainable for a city-dwelling Holy Hermits Online member like myself, I am inspired by his life of simplicity, his call for people to be just and charitable and how his ministry emerged from a period of hermit-like solitude,” says Jeremy Fraser from Holy Hermits Online, as John the Baptist’s feast day approaches
“God loved all the world so much that we were given God’s son, who saved all of us and then gave us his Spirit. The Spirit of Christ is with us – he gave us his Spirit at Pentecost. When you are filled with the Holy Spirit, people will see your face, hear you talk and witness how you act and know the word of God through you,” says The Rev’d Hanna Dally, the Director of the Holy Family Episcopal Church in Reineh, Galilee
“In this season of Advent, as our worship and prayer turn to both the season of Christmas as well as the coming of the kingdom, one figure who features in our readings is John the Baptist. He witnessed the truth as a burning and shining lamp…What might we as a Church look like if we, too, were a witness to the truth as a burning and shining lamp?” asks Bishop John Roundhill
“At my Parish of Sandgate-Northpoint, I once witnessed a baptism where a young child with the hugest of smiles was taking in all around him, aware that something very special was happening. I observed how laid back this child was, despite the buzz of activity, accepting the baptism and the ensuing applause with grace,” says Margaret Humphries from GFS – An Anglican Ministry and the Parish of Sandgate-Northpoint
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