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Advent Online Book Club with Fr. Joseph


5-week Zoom book club, Wednesdays 6:30-7:30pm MT, starting November 30th.

PLEASE REGISTER BELOW BY NOVEMBER 25TH

We will be reading Love Came Down: Anglican Readings for Advent and Christmas, a daily Advent devotional with short selections from the writings, reflections, poems, hymns, and sermons of Anglican luminaries from Lancelot Andrewes and John Donne in the 16th century to Madeleine L’Engle and Dorothy Sayers in the 20th.

Read and reflect on the daily selections, then come to discuss with friends on Zoom. We will begin each evening with a shortened form of Evening Prayer and end with Compline.


The book is available for ~$15 via Tattered Cover (in-store pickup or home delivery), Amazon (paperback + Kindle), Barnes & Noble (Nook + large-print paperback), or a library / bookstore near you (ISBN: 9780819218988).

Reading plan…. Come each evening ready to discuss:

Wed Nov 30: Introduction (pgs vii-ix) + daily selections from Nov 27-30 (pgs 1-10)

Wed Dec 7: daily selections from Dec 1-7 (pgs 11-25)

Wed Dec 14: daily selections from Dec 8-14 (pgs 26-41)

Wed Dec 21: daily selections from Dec 15-21 (pgs 42-57)      

[Wed Dec 28: no Zoom session, but keep reading!]

Wed Jan 4: daily selections from Dec 22 - The Epiphany/Jan 6 (pgs 58-90)

Zoom link is HERE (Meeting ID: 848 438 1543, Passcode: 104422).

Questions? Contact Fr Joseph.

PLEASE REGISTER HERE



Earlier Event: November 27
The Hymns of Advent and Christmas
Later Event: December 3
Advent Quiet Day