Pray Your Way to the Manger…

In case you’re looking for a daily practice in this final week of Advent, the approach HERE written by Bob Hostetler and shared by Guideposts may be “just the ticket!” The posting includes this fact:

For centuries, followers of Jesus have “knelt” and prayed their way to the manger in the week before Christmas. They do it by means of a series of songs, or chants, called “The O Antiphons or Great Advent Antiphons.

Additionally, the posting shares that the verses of the Advent hymn, “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel” are these Advent Antiphons. In the article, Bob H. asks readers if they want to consider kneeling themselves to Christmas Eve by using the verses each day.

PROSPECTIVE ACTION: Want to take Bob Hostetler up on the practice for today? If so, pray and/or sing this as the first of seven days

December 17 (“O Wisdom”)

O come, O Wisdom from on high,
who ordered all things mightily;
to us the path of knowledge show
and teach us in its ways to go.
Rejoice! Rejoice! Immanuel shall come to thee, O Israel.

If you enjoy today’s praying/singing effort, the next six days are included in the Guideposts post…

Enjoy the day, filled with the Spirit!

P.S. Thanks to Bob Hostetler and Guideposts for their faithful efforts to share such wonderful materials during Advent and all year long! And thanks our CP friend, Toni, for sharing this link.

P.S.S. Apologies to readers of yesterday’s post – there was one wildly unintelligible sentence included! 🙂 It is corrected HERE. We rejoice it doesn’t happen even more often 🙂