The history of Advent teaches us a great deal about its meaning and prepares us to observe this time with reverence and understanding. This history reveals the simultaneous importance of both penitence and hope, of both remorse and rejoicing.
Preliminary Considerations
To be serious about the Christian faith is to be serious about its history. To be sensitive to the history of God's people is to be responsive to the movement of time. The God "in whom we live, and move, and have our being" is...
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