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Advent: Day 28

Advent: Day 28

"O Emmanuel, our King and Giver of Law: 

come to save us, Lord our God!"

Sieben Magnificat Antipoden: O Immanuel 

(Arvo Part)

“Fullness of Grace in man’s human frailty  

This is the wonder of Jesus 

Laying aside His power and glory 

Humbly He entered our world 

Chose the path of meanest worth 

Scandal of a virgin birth 

Born in a stable cold and rejected 

Here lies the hope of the world

Fullness of Grace the love of the Father 

Shown in the face of Jesus 

Stooping to bear the weight of humanity 

Walking the Calvary road 

Christ the holy Innocent 

Took our sin and punishment 

Fullness of God despised and rejected 

Crushed for the sins of the world

Fullness of hope in Christ we had longed for 

Promise of God in Jesus 

Through His obedience we are forgiven 

Opening the floodgates of heaven 

All our hopes and dreams we bring 

Gladly as an offering 

Fullness of life and joy unspeakable 

God’s gift in love to the world”

— KEITH & KRISTYN GETTY & STUART TOWNEND COPYRIGHT © THANKYOU MUSIC 2004

Advent: Day 27

Advent: Day 27

"O King of all nations and keystone of the Church: 

come and save man, who you formed from the dust!"

Sieben Magnificat Antipoden: König aller Völker 

(Arvo Part)

Advent: Day 26

Advent: Day 26

"O Radiant Dawn,

splendor of eternal light, sun of justice: 

come and shine on those who dwell in darkness and in the 

shadow of death." 

Sieben Magnificat Antiphonen: O Morgenstern

(Arvo Part)

Advent: Day 25

Advent: Day 25

"O Key of David, 

opening the gates of God's eternal Kingdom: 

come and free the prisoners of darkness!"

Sieben Magnificat Antiphonen: Schlüssel Davids

(Arvo Part)

Advent: Day 24

Advent: Day 24

"O Root of Jesse's stem,

sign of God's love for all his people:

come to save us without delay!"

Sieben Magnificat Antipoden: O Spross aus Isis Wurzel

(Arvo Part)

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“Now may the fragrance of His peace

Soar through your heart like the dove released

Hide in His wings oh weary, distant soul

He’ll guide your spirit home

And may His love poured from on high

Flow to the depths of your deepest sigh

Oh come and drink from the only living stream

And on His shoulder lean

And may the hope that will not deceive

Through every pain bring eternal ease

There is no night that can steal the promises

His coming brings to us

So may His joy rush over you

Delight in the path He has called you to

May all your steps walk in Heaven’s endless light

Beyond this Christmas night ”

— KEITH & KRISTYN GETTY COPYRIGHT © THANKYOU MUSIC 2004

Advent: Day 23

Advent: Day 23 

"O Leader of the House of Israel,

giver of the Law to Moses on Sinai:

come to rescue us with your mighty power!"

Sieben Magnificat Antipoden: O Adonai

(Arvo Part)

Advent: Day 22

Advent: Day 22

"O Wisdom of our God Most High, 

guiding creation with power and love:

come to teach us the path of knowledge!"

Sieben Magnificat Antipoden: O Weisheit

(Arvo Part)

Advent: Day 21

Advent: Day 21

“Waiting is an art that our impatient age has forgotten. It wants to break open the ripe fruit when it has hardly finished planting the shoot. But all too often the greedy eyes are only deceived; the fruit that seemed so precious is still green on the inside, and disrespected hands ungratefully toss aside what has so disappointed them.”

“Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them.”

“A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes - and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent”

“Jesus stands at the door knocking (Rev. 3:20). In total reality, he comes in the form of the beggar, of the dissolute human child in ragged clothes, asking for help. He confronts you in every person that you meet. As long as there are people, Christ will walk the earth as your neighbor, as the one through whom God calls you, speaks to you, makes demands on you. That is the great seriousness and great blessedness of the Advent message. Christ is standing at the door; he lives in the form of a human being among us.”

“...And then, just when everything is bearing down on us to such an extent that we can scarcely withstand it, the Christmas message comes to tell us that all our ideas are wrong, and that what we take to be evil and dark is really good and light because it comes from God. Our eyes are at fault, that is all. God is in the manger, wealth in poverty, light in darkness, succor in abandonment. No evil can befall us; whatever men may do to us, they cannot but serve the God who is secretly revealed as love and rules the world and our lives.”

                                                             (All quotes from God is in the Manger by Dietrich Bonhoeffer)