An Advent Calendar
Finding
ourselves a bit frustrated by Advent Calendars that are more about Christmas
than Advent, we decided to try our hand at creating our own online Advent
Calendar. The background for our calendar is a Jesse Tree on an ivory panel from Bavaria, c. 1200, which
is now at the Louvre Museum in Paris. (Click
here for more information about this piece.) As is the case with most Advent
calendars, ours begins on December 1st, rather than the First Sunday of Advent.
That simply means that in some years you will have to start the calendar a day
or two before Advent begins, while in other years, it will not have enough days.
Click on the numbers to follow a link for each day
of December leading up to Christmas. All of the numbers are linked, so you can
jump ahead if you want, but we recommend discipline and doing one page a day. The Jesse Tree provides one of the themes
of the project: the ancient faith history of the people of God as the forebears
of the Messiah lived it. The calendar also looks forward to the culmination of
God's plan at the end of time, linking the faith history of the past with John's
grand apocalyptic vision in the Book of Revelation.
More about Advent on Full Homely Divinity:
Rediscovering Advent
The Saints of Advent
Hymns of Advent
A Devotion for the Last Days
of Advent
