Category: Advent
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“Chains Shall He Break”
It was Advent 1843, and the French village of Roquemaure was preparing to celebrate both the season and the restoration of the church’s pipe organ. The parish priest asked a local wine distributer who had a reputation as a poet, Placide Cappeau, to write a poem in honor of the dual celebrations. By Cappeau’s claim, […]
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Joy Is An Inside Job
“Does it bring you joy?” That is the question asked by author Marie Kondo. Kondo is a “professional organizer” who uses this question to simplify and declutter her clients’ lives. If the answer to the question is “Yes,” then a particular object, artifact, or closet-occupying sport jacket should be kept, she says. If the answer […]
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“Dyma Gariad Fel Y Moroedd”
During the Advent season of 1904, the famed G. Campbell Morgan stood in the pulpit of London’s Westminster Chapel and said, “If you and I could stand above Wales, looking at it below, you would see fire breaking out here and there, yonder and somewhere else. It is a Divine visitation.” Morgan was describing the […]