Advent is a time of rich liturgical and popular traditions in the western churches, especially in the Catholic, Anglican and Lutheran churches. But it is a much undeveloped liturgical time in the eastern churches, where it is primarily observed as a fasting season, probably thanks to the disproportionate influence of monastics in the evolution …
“Did you help?”
Dorothy Sayers began one of her public talks with the following words: What I am going to talk about is theology. ... I think it only fair to warn you about this, because I so often get letters from people saying that they "don't agree with theology.” They don't like it, as some people …
The Word and my words
And so we begin. During the weekdays of Lent, the Orthodox Church reads from the Old Testament instead of the Gospels and the Letters of Paul. And three books of the Old Testament in particular are read on a daily basis: Genesis, Isaiah and Proverbs. Today, it's the beginning of each of those three books: …
