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SUMMARY:Advent Sunday\, 30th November\, Holy Eucharist 11.30am
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DESCRIPTION:Advent is the name the church gives to the four weeks before C
 hristmas. It is a time of preparation and a time of waiting. But do we kno
 w how to wait? You bet we do. We do it all the time. But aren’t we rubbi
 sh at it. We hate it. In fact\, whatever we can do to avoid it – taking 
 a shortcut\, driving to work at an unsocial hour\, buying online\, paying 
 for speedy boarding\, whatever it is…we are there and doing it. But Adve
 nt is about making a virtue out of the waiting\, it is about really really
  doing it well. \n\nIt's about looking for God and hoping for God\, and wa
 iting for God\, …in a situation where God's presence\, his promises\, hi
 s embrace of our world\, is ambiguous\, is not yet proven. And that is par
 t of our human life. To live in this intermediate world\, neither Heaven n
 or Hell\, neither all good or all bad\, with its contradictions\, its frus
 trations\, its moments of absolute pain and its moments of absolute glory.
  \n\nSo we wait…because we don’t yet know. We don’t get the big pict
 ure. We don’t get God’s vision. We only see a tiny bit. The waiting is
  where we deal with all the things we don’t know about God - what theolo
 gians call the “epistemological distance”\, that gap of knowing\, betw
 een creature and creator\, between the object and the subject\, between th
 e human and the divine. That part of us that only sees bits\, pieces\, the
  mess on the back of the tapestry and not the beautiful picture on the oth
 er side. \n\nAnd it is at Advent that we can cultivate that discipline. A 
 time to put a check on our rush to the happy ending\, a time to hear the a
 ngel’s message\, a time to abide in the fields\, a time to follow a star
 \, a time to wait on God. “Now\, we see only in part”\, wrote St Paul.
  “We see in a mirror darkly”. And while we do\, we bide our time. We w
 ait. \n\nClick 'More Info' below to see a recitation of Rowan Williams 'Ad
 vent Calendar'
LOCATION:St George's Church\, Málaga
URL:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQBPBhQCsxE
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