Seasons

Readings Year A Year B Year C Commentary On the Collect of the Day The collect, provided for use in the season when the first advent is recalled and the second anticipated, reminds us of our Lord’s entry into Jerusalem (Lk. 19:44), ” you did not know the time of your visitation,” and prays that … Read more

Readings Year A Year B Year C Commentary On the Collect of the Day The prayer might be compared to this collect for the third Sunday of Advent which entered the Prayer Book in 1662, generally attributed to John Cosin: … The essential difference between Bishop Cosin’s colect and that in the present revision lies … Read more

Readings Year A Year B Year C Commentary On the Collect of the Day The collect is based on verse 12 of the Epistle (Rom. 13:8-14) presently retained in the eucharistic lectionary for Year A. … The striking antitheses are remarkable: cast away darkness, put on light; mortal life, life immortal; great humility, glorious majesty. … Read more

Readings Year A Year B Year C Commentary Homiletic Directory That master theologian of the third century, Origen, observed a pattern that contains a great mystery: whenever the Lord Jesus came, he was preceded in that coming by John the Baptist (cf. Homilies on Luke IV, 6). Thus it was that even in the womb … Read more

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About Christmas ‘The Nativity of the Lord, or the Birthday of Christ commonly called Christmas Day’ is the all-embracing title in the Book of Common Prayer for the solemnity which is second in importance to Easter. Like Easter it is one of the two days in the year which has an octave, eight days during … Read more