Christmas
Eve
Light is rushing in on
darkness. And it will bring to light
great darkness. We are about to
step into Christmastide, a bloody twelve
days in which the Calendar observes Stephen, the first martyr of the Church
(December 26); the Holy Innocents, those boys of two years and under murdered
by Herod’s soldiers in Bethlehem (December 28); and Thomas Becket, murdered
Archbishop of Canterbury (December 29).
Christ’s coming is Good
News; but it is not always, and never only, good news. And if we are to make room for his coming
into our world, we shall need to count the cost...
Advent:
making room for Jesus – whatever the cost
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