First Sunday of Advent
Gill Fox, “As Kingfishers Catch Fire”
The aim of the gospel acclamation, like Advent, is to focus our attention.
Alleluia!
Show us, Lord, your love
and grant us your salvation
Alleluia!
Simon Barnes, an ornithologist, could be describing Advent watchfulness for the glimpses and hints of God-with-us when he writes about ‘the calm delight of the utterly normal, and the rare and sudden delight of the utterly unexpected’.