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Advent Cycle B November 27, 2011
Is.
64:1-9 Psalm 80:1-7
1 Cor.1:1-9 Mark
13:24-37
Do you ever ask you mom or dad, "When is my birthday?" And you are so excited about your birthday
arriving that your mom puts an X on each day as you count down the days until your
birthday.
In the church we do a count down to Christmas
because whose birthday is Christmas?
It’s the birthday of Jesus.
Today is the First Sunday of Advent. This is the first day of the Christian New
Year. So Happy New Year to you.
And in Advent, we have a special way of
counting down till Christmas. We use the
Advent Candles on the Advent Wreath. You
can make one of these for your home too.
It is a good way to count down the time till Christmas.
There are five candles here. And we light one new candle each week. And on Christmas Eve we light, the big white
candle in the middle for the birthday of Jesus.
The season of Advent is a Season of
practice. It is when we get ready to
welcome the most important guest in the world.
When does your house usually get cleaned the
best? When you have some guests coming
for dinner or for a visit, right? When a
guest is coming, your parents ask you to clean up your room real well, don’t
they?
In the Season of Advent, we are supposed to
be getting our world ready for a visit from someone very important. We are supposed to be getting our world ready
for a visit from Christ.
How do we get our world ready for the visit
of Christ?
We get ready by showing God how much we care
for one another. We get ready by showing
God that we love one another, by helping the poor and the sick and the people
who are sad and suffering.
So we have four weeks to get ready for
Christmas. Let us do some special things
in these four weeks to show God that we are ready for a visit from Christ. Amen.
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