Opening Address Every valley shall be filled. That line arrives late this morning, at the very end of a long stretch of reading, and by the time it comes you have already sat through five prophecies and an Epistle. This is the Ember Saturday of Advent, the last of the three Ember Days that fall […]
Tag Archives: Isaias
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Dec
Dec
Opening Address Friday of the Ember week in Advent, and the Church puts two arrivals in front of us before it says anything else. Isaias promises a shoot coming up out of a stump somebody cut down. Luke sends a young woman up into the hill country in a hurry, and when she gets where […]
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Dec
Dec
Opening Address Advent has been running one formulary for days at a time, and this morning it stops and does something it does not do in any ordinary week. Two Lessons are read instead of one, each with its own Collect and its own Gradual, and the second of them ends with a sentence the […]