Thought for the Weekend ; It's the Advent of Christmas

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By Rev Nick Bromfield, Rector of Drybrook, Lydbrook and Ruardean

JUST as we end the traditional time in the year for remembering, so with Advent Sunday this weekend we enter the time for waiting. The word 'Advent' means 'coming', the coming of Christ. It's a time of waiting in preparation for Jesus. The problem for many at this time is how to spend this time of waiting. Probably none of us is good at waiting and Christians are no exception! We want Jesus to be there for us, often we don't want to wait.

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Thought for the Weekend ; It's the Advent of Christmas

A man who keenly felt this frustration was the man from Orthodox Russia who wrote a classic holy book, The...

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