Comments on: Advent Greeting and A Few Good Links

By: Clark

Clark — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:29:57 +0000

I’m trying to blog nothing but Advent and Christmas during the month of December, but I don’t know if I’m going to make it. A surfer happened by my site searching for Elijah and the Prophets of Baal, so I would like to write that post. I will soon be reviewing Phylis Tickle’s book on the Sayings of Jesus. It has nothing to do with Advent, I just started reading it this weekend. I’ve read some Advent posts, I’ve written a few, and even if I get distracted by some other things I do feel it should be our focus during these very busy weeks leading up to Christmas.

By: Anna A

Anna A — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:53:20 +0000

Martha,

I agree to anything that Arvo Pärt has written. I remember one performance of his Litany, where the singers were each in a different colored pastel shirt. Very effective.

Patrick,

I want to second your recommendation about “Trespassers will be Baptized” I enjoyed it also. Michael, being an RA, would not appreciate the trials and tribulations of GA’s.

By: Martha

Martha — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:29:56 +0000

If we’re recommending music for Advent, I’m plugging Arvo Pärt’s “Seven Magnificat Antiphons”, which is a setting of the seven “O” Antiphons (O Sapientia, O Adonai, O Radix Jesse), O Clavis David, O Oriens, O Rex Gentium, O Emmanuel) sung at Vespers/Evening Prayer from 17th – 23rd December.

They’re in German, which should please all the Lutherans and, although I dislike German as a sung language (sorry!), I really like these.

(Actually, in general I’d recommend Arvo Pärt as a modern composer of religious music).

By: wmcwirla

wmcwirla — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:39:36 +0000

I’ll put in a plug for “The Winter Pascha” by Thomas Hopko (St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1997). It has forty devotional readings for the Christmas/Epiphany season, but a lot of it is in Advent.

By: Steve in Toronto

Steve in Toronto — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:22:58 +0000

My Wife and I are using Phyllis Tickle’s “The Divine Hours: Prayers for autumn” and wintertime” for our family devotions during advent. Do any imonk readers know how it compares with the “Treasury of Daily Prayer”? We have found “The Divine Hours” very edifying for us but a bit to difficult for your young children ages 5 and 7. How child friendly is the “Treasury of Daily Prayer”?

Thanks
Steve in Toronto

By: Jim Thornber

Jim Thornber — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 11:58:25 +0000

Another fan of Ralph Vaughn Williams! I don’t go anywhere without “Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis.”

By: iMonk

iMonk — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 02:15:13 +0000

I never make fun of Baptists or support people who do.

****snark****

By: Patrick Lynch

Patrick Lynch — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 01:49:08 +0000

It’s rather fabulously written. Her blog is really well-done, too.

“Why don’t you just write her a fan letter then, loser?”

SO I DID!

Maybe you could interview her for this blog? Good book.

By: Patrick Lynch

Patrick Lynch — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 01:34:18 +0000

If you’re sharing links, I’ve got a book-recommend for you.

“Trespassers Will Be Baptized” is this pastor’s daughter’s memoir about growing up Baptist in East-Central Kentucky. So far, it’s a pretty neat book.