Posts tagged Advent

Advent Family Group: Imagining the Kingdom of God.

Wednesday 4 December 2013

Last Friday some of our regular families gathered at St Agnes for the first of our children friendly Advent group. Like the Adults the children will be focusing on the Kingdom of God for the four weeks up to Christmas. We began thinking about the change of season. In the natural we see the signs […]

Advent begins: Come, Lord, come!

Monday 2 December 2013

The beginning of Advent was marked by the Advent Carol Service at S Agnes. This was the third occasion the Ordinariate has celebrated what is a treasure of Anglican patrimony, and it was attended by a record congregation — around 100 — of members of the communities based at all three churches in the parish. […]

Advent Adult Group: Week 1’s strands.

Monday 2 December 2013

Often, when preparing Advent and Lent groups, I have found that what you think will come out of a session is usually not what results on the night itself. Usually any pre-conceived ideas pale into insignificance compared with what God does with a session. This is undoubtedly what happened last Thursday! So much ground was […]

Adult Advent Group: Week 1 Materials

Saturday 30 November 2013

Thursday saw the start of our Adult Advent group. A good number gathered to begin thinking about the Kingdom of God. A summary of some of the discussion will follow but here are the materials we used.We began in two groups to consider what we knew and had been taught about the Kingdom of God. […]

Lambs, woodcarvers, kings and ringbearers: Exploring Advent as a family.

Friday 29 November 2013

As Advent is coming up again, it is time for the Chatfield family to dig out the copy of Jostein Gaarder’s “The Christmas Mystery.” With 24 chapters, it is written to be read from 1st December until Christmas Eve. There are two stories, which weave together over the course of the book, one about a […]

Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.

Thursday 28 November 2013

Sunday saw the end of the Liturgical Year, which always ends on a high with the feast of Christ the King. Tonight our adults Advent group meets for the first time and the theme of this, and our family advent group on Fridays, is The Kingdom of God. The Kingship of Christ and concepts of […]