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Liturgical Reflections
This area provides a number of reflections on the Orthodox Church's liturgical feasts, seasons, and other aspects of the Church's worshipping life, often in the form of devotional or seasonal reflections, rather than academic studies.

Death and new life in the nativity of Christ PDF Print E-mail

A reflection on the Nativity of Christ as the revelation of a life bound up in death, and a new way of seeing death as the entry into Christ's life.

 
The advent of love: the nativity of Christ PDF Print E-mail

Christ's coming into the cosmos as man in the incarnation, brings the one who is love, for 'God is Love', directly into human existence.

 
'He bowed the heavens and came down': Reflections on the Nativity of Christ PDF Print E-mail

The full majesty of the eternal Son is born in the cosmos, and the fulness of heaven made manifest to the creature. A nativity reflection on the coming together of the divine and human in Christ.

 
On the nativity fast - the preparation of the soul PDF Print E-mail

A reflection on the role of the Nativity Fast, which might seem the opposite of Christmas joy, in preparing the human heart for the true joy of encountering Christ's incarnation.

 
'She in whom salvation was begun': the Mother of God and the nativity of Christ PDF Print E-mail

A reflection on the role of the Mother of God, Theotokos, in the incarnation of the eternal Son in the world, and the intimate place had in the mission of the incarnate Christ by his Mother.

 


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