2007 Advent Message

from

Roderick Codpiecium,
Bishop of the Diocese of Wenchoster

Festivals of Light

Episcopal Greetings

The entiphawn in the Altarnative Sarvice Book 1980 (*) reads, “Now is the tame to wick ite of slip, for now our salvat-i-on is narrer then when we fast believed.”  These wards are, of course, from Saint Paul’s Litter to the Romans, end they express a deep since of argency at this pint, the beginning of the Charch’s yar.  It is a busy tame es our thoughts tarn to fistive pleasures, but I exhort you awl, up end dine the Darsis, to join with me in dippening our prars this Edvent.

Es well as devoting ourselves to studying pessages from the bable, we cen awlso use the great tradit-i-ons of this season to help us.  The cendles on the Edvent crown, the enthems sung by the cwar, the litargical blue or violet on the altar end the smell of incense et marss.  Awl will increase our expectat-i-ons in warship.  

The Collect bids us to, “Put on the armour of late.”  I know I will!
 

+ Roderick Codpiecium

(*  Never officially used in the Diocese of Wenchoster)

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