2d Sunday of Advent


Winter and December have finally arrived on this Sunday morning. Not actual snow, of course. The picture is of the beautiful medieval parish church of St Laurence in Alvechurch, Worcestershire. Lakewood, the Athens of the south county though it be, has neither architecture nor weather to compare. But I rather liked it when I found it here so you get to look at it, too, what with us having our first gully-whumper rain of the season last night and today being Sunday and all. (You can click on the picture and make it well-nigh enormous.) Oh, yes. And what to post to honour the second Sunday of Advent? How about one of the vesper antiphons:

Ecce apparebit Dominus, et non mentietur: si moram fecerit, exspecta eum, quia veniet, et non tardabit, alleluia.

Behold the Lord shall appear, and shall not lie: if He make any delay, wait for Him for He will come, and will not be slack, alleluia.