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Hi all,
This will be the first Christmas I observe as a proper fully Baptised / fully Confirmed Christian. It will be the first time I go to a Christmas Midnight Communion and a Christmas Morning Service. Unfortunately I can’t share the experience at my home Church (St Margarets in Oxford), I’ll be at the Church in Erith (St Pauls in Northumberland Heath, Kent), but I am sure the services will be good ones (even if the Church is completely different to my usual one!).
This Christmas will be different to any I have done before, I feel like I understand things a lot more than I did during any previous years. I understand it as: Advent and Christmas are really about getting ready for a new era; something different from before… and I am not sure whats going to be different in this forthcoming year, but I am not worried about it, because its going to happen. Hard to explain, but I think you may get the idea. Just my view anyways, and its not necessarily from a Christian point of view, its important to look forward no matter what faith.
For people of other faiths, I do wish you a good spiritual time during these coming weeks (the Hanukkah has just finished, but we have things like Birth of Mithra, Kwanzaa, Yule, Waqf al Arafa etc etc… there are plenty of interfaith calendars on the web if you wish to celebrate holidays interfaith-style). For those who wish to class themselves as atheist then have a good time.
Many thanks and blessings,
Daniel
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