Celebrating Advent in the Home

Daily devotions practiced at home are the best way for parents to teach children to value our faith in Jesus. To recapture the season of Advent as a time for preparing for the second coming of Christ even as we prepare to celebrate his birth in Bethlehem, an Advent Wreath can help.

To assist in these devotions, I created a booklet with a brief liturgy based on a Service of Light in the Prayer Book: Celebrating Advent in the Home

These daily devotions are a way to incorporate liturgy into your daily life. The liturgy takes five minutes or less, yet permits a family to bring the Christian year into the home with a tangible reminder of the new church year, which starts this coming Sunday. The season of Advent has been set aside as a time of preparation for Christmas since at least the last half of the 6th century, though Advent Wreaths date to German Pietists in the 1800s.

Grow Christians
If you want to use this Advent devotion to launch you or your family into more daily practices of faith, I suggest the website growchristians.org for resources for families. Started by two friends of mine, the website has grown into a helpful resource with honest discussions of the challenges and joys of bringing faith home. I subscribe to the feed, so that I get the articles via email.
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Celebrating Fourth Advent and Christmas
I have been more than a little dismayed to hear of churches (not Episcopal ones) cancelling their Sunday morning worship on December 24 as they will hold Christmas Eve services that night. While getting to church on a Sunday morning is always a challenge for young families, I just note that nothing can show how much we value Sunday morning worship like attending both morning and evening liturgies that day as the anticipation of Advent builds to the coming of Christ.

Peace,
Frank
The Rev. Canon Frank Logue, Canon to the Ordinary

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