Gentle Reign: Thoughts about Advent through the years

In my never ending quest to give people more information than they ask for or even want, I have made an index of my posts (so far) about Advent, in the hope that the index will help someone other than me some day. You're welcome! 😇

General posts about the season
Advent 101: Waiting (these first four essays explore the key dynamics of each Sunday)
Advent 102: Preparing
Advent 103: Rejoicing
Advent 104: Solidarity

Advent (Year B)

God's Unfinished House (written the year our church was being built, this little essay looked at the image of unfinished church as a metaphor for Advent.)

Gaudete in Tenebris - Advent in 2012 (rejoicing in the darkness; Advent after Sandy Hook)

Mystery of Incarnation: the sinless made to be sin

Advent reading - homework for the snowbound

Interlude (a little poem about being between things, unfinished)

First Sunday of Advent
A. Year A - Advent 1 - Let us walk in the light of the Lord

B. Keep Awake - Advent 1, Year B

C. For you I wait all the day (C1A)

Second Sunday of Advent
A. Advent 2A - Justice and fullness of peace

A. Second Thoughts: Second Advent

B. Listening for good news in a bad news world—Advent 2, Year B

C. The Advent joy of the gospel (C2A)

C. Second thoughts—(C2A) Baruch, God's mercy, and the dreary curse of a Pelagian Advent