Preparing for Christmas
Coming Sunday is Advent. I really am looking forward to Advent. When you are in the seminary and praying the liturgical hours and celebrate Mass every day, it is amazing how well and wonderful you feel prepared when Christmas is finally there. Also, with this amazing long ‘ordinary time’, it’s a welcome change: the purple color of the chasubles, the ‘rorate caeli’ we sing, the antiphones with the Magnificat the week before Christmas, the beautiful Mass at Christmas Eve…
Well, this week has been busy enough, I must say, and this weekend will be fun (although I won’t get much homework done, I’m afraid). This first weekend of Advent we will be spending on Ameland, a small island north of the Netherlands (4 hours by car). The entire seminary will be there for a day in silence, after which we will celebrate the seminary’s anniversary. Granted, not the best reason to party, but we’re going to, anyway!
I hope you all have a good first Advent Sunday!
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