Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

Advent 1C

  • This first Sunday in Advent, we explore Jesus’s apocalyptic vision and what it says about the way we work through our present.

  • The apocalyptic talk of the first week of Advent gives us a different opportunity to explore what is going on in the world around us.

  • The conflict that Jesus speaks to in his apocalyptic talk is about privilege, about fear of loss, about fear of a more just world.

  • The new liturgical year begins where the old one ended: with apocalyptic talk and concern for the future—a most familiar feeling.

  • Signs of Hope

    Jesus invites us to turn the story around. The signs we see aren’t omens of bad things, but as signs of hope.

  • A devotional for the First Sunday of Advent Collect Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness, and put on the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life in which your Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when…