Merry Christmas from the ELCA Worship Staff
We are called to ponder mystery and await the coming Christ, to embody God’s compassion for each fragile human life. God is with us in our longing to bring healing to the earth, while we watch with joy and...
Advent Listening and Waiting in Full Color
Today’s post is from the artist Robyn Sand Anderson. In 2015, I created a series of paintings interpreting Arvo Pårt’s “Magnificat & Sieben Antiphonen”. I had interpreted music with paint a few years prior and found it to be...
La Posada, Searching for Shelter
Today’s post is from Patrick Cabello Hansel, co-pastor at St. Paul’s Lutheran in Minneapolis, MN. The first Baby Jesus at our church is now 11 years old. He’s the goalie on our soccer team, which finished runner-up this year. The...
Advent 4 with Hymns from Around the World
Today’s post is from Lydia Posselt, Pastor at Family of God in in Buckingham, PA. This is the second of two posts about how congregations will be worshipping this year when the fourth Sunday of Advent falls on Christmas Eve. ...
A Bridge from Advent to Christmas
Today’s post is by Gretchen Rode, Associate Pastor at House of Hope in New Hope, MN. This is the first of two posts on how congregations will be worshipping on the 4th Sunday of Advent/Christmas Eve. This year, the 4th...
LiturgyGram: About the Season of Advent
Advent is the first season in the church year, comprising the four weeks before Christmas. The word “Advent” comes from the Latin, “to come,” and the church has observed Advent as weeks of preparation since the fifth century with...