The Annunciation at Cana!
Ty Mam Duw’s 1009 Carol Service. Saturday 28th November, 6.30 pm.
The Church is a herald, she announces what is coming up! Advent is the beginning of the Year for living out Jesus’ life in his Word. We begin with days of waiting for the fulness of Christ’s coming, born of a woman, to which the whole of the Old Testament is a dramatic prelude and a prophesy.
We come to Christ’s birth at Christmas and his proclamation to the world at the Epiphany. We follow him in his presentation in the Temple in February. In Lent we go out with him into the desert, In Holy Week we live the Paschal Mystery of his gift of his life and love in the Eucharist, his death on the cross and his rising to new life. We walk with him through the forty days of his risen life on earth and gaze upwards to heaven at his ascension into glory.
At Pentecost we receive the Spirit and in the light of the Spirit we live out Christ’s teaching and healing that proclaim his kingdom on earth - and, in November his Kingship over all time and space. We live out theses things, not by traveling in time to 1st century Palestine but by traveling the Word of God in Sacred Scripture through the liturgy of the Church.
In this year's Carol Service for the Eve of the first Sunday of Advent we begin this pilgrimage by taking hold of the Word of God in the gospels of the Annunciation and the Marriage at Cana (Luke 1 and John 3 respectively) We hear the Word with Mary and we hear Mary’s words with the Church - do what ever he tells you. This is an introduction to Lectio Divina, to consciously living and praying with the Word of God!
Ty Mam Duw Poor Clare Colettines, Upper Aston Hall Lane, Hawarden, Deeside CH5 3EN
