The publishing trade seems to have spotted a new market developing in Advent resources. Maggi Dawn got in first last year with Beginnings and Endings, a thoughtful daily Bible based resource that takes you right up to Twelfth Night. This year I want to try m’colleague and friend Bishop Stephen Cottrell’s down-to-earth Do Nothing: Christmas is Coming. Watch this space.
If that’s not enough to get you there, perhaps you need an Advent iPhone application. I’m trying Advent08 from iHabitus.com. This is a Scripturally based image enhanced supplementary office you run on your iPhone, that may well do nicely in the evening, complete with Celtic artwork that counts down from Advent Sunday, tying everything together. It can be used with personal or group meditation around an Advent wreath. For Liturgical anoraks, the scheme follows colour coded classic Advent themes up to and including the O Antiphons, and lands you up on Christmas Eve all dressed up and ready to go. All this for only 59p from the iTunes store!...
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My favorite to read each year is Night Visions: searching the shadows of advent and christmas, by Jan Rchardson
I wanted to let anyone who may catch this/be interested that I am working on a Lenten series in the same vain as the devotions that I wrote for Advent08. They will be blogged only at this point, but are available at www.fontandtomb.com
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