Advent

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This list includes every page or product from UUA.org, UU World magazine, or inSpirit books & gifts that is tagged with Advent.

  • a view from the ground, looking up, at the tops of evergreen trees with a starry sky above. A warm glow of campfire is reflected off of the trees' trunks.
    A Blessing for Traveling in the Dark
    From WorshipWeb
    Go slow if you can. Slower. More slowly still....
  • Colorful Christmas lights, out of focus
    Christmas Comes Whether You’re Ready or Not
    From WorshipWeb
    I am always in a bit of a shock when December 1st arrives on the calendar. I always feel like there should be at least another week beyond Thanksgiving...
  • Detail from a stained-class window in St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral in Edinburgh, of Mary.
    Magnified
    From WorshipWeb
    Mary: Hi! Are you on the way to the hill country, too? I’m going to the hill country. I'm on my way to see my cousin Elizabeth. I can’t wait to tell...
  • Bare trees reach to a grey sky
    In the Darkness of the Winter
    From WorshipWeb
    http://www.uua.org/sites/live-new.uua.org/files/in_the_darkness_of_the_… Music (PDF) In the darkness of the winter, quiet hearts beneath the sky, we are...
  • A wind-driven cloud over the south rim of the Grand Canyon, with stars in the background
    Teach us to look for you
    From WorshipWeb
    This prayer was written to accompany the Advent hymn "People, Look East," #226 in Singing the Living Tradition....
  • Weeping for Our Children
    From WorshipWeb
    A voice was heard in Ramah, wailing and loud lamentation, Rachel weeping for her children; she refused to be consoled, because they are no more....
  • December twenty-fourth, The Flaming Chalice (1965). The Unitarian Service Committee adopted the flaming chalice as their logo in 1941.
    December 24
    From WorshipWeb
    December twenty-fourth, The Flaming Chalice (1965). The Unitarian Service Committee adopted the flaming chalice as their logo in 1941. Years later, in...
  • December twenty-third, “Oh Holy Night” (1855). The first English translation of "Oh Holy Night" was by Unitarian minister John Sullivan Dwight, who tweaked the original French author's socialist themes and images to advance Dwight's own abolitionist cause
    December 23
    From WorshipWeb
    December twenty-third, “O Holy Night” (1855). The first English translation of "O Holy Night" was by Unitarian minister John Sullivan Dwight, who...
  • December twenty-second, The First Unitarian Church Founded in Transylvania (1557). Despite recognition under the 1557 Act of Religious Toleration and receiving the king's patronage, the Unitarian church in Transylvania has faced frequent persecution.
    December 22
    From WorshipWeb
    December twenty-second, The First Unitarian Church Founded in Transylvania (1557). Despite recognition under the 1557 Act of Religious Toleration and...
  • Dec. 21: The Winter Solstice. The last harvest of the year is celebrated shortly before the winter solstice.
    December 21
    From WorshipWeb
    December twenty-first, the Winter Solstice. (The point along the Earth’s annual solar orbit when the northern hemisphere is at its furthest point from...