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Meditations for Advent: Preparing for Christ’s Birth is unavailable, but you can change that!

Vassilios Papavassiliou, author of the popular Meditations for Great Lent, takes us through the hymnography, Scripture readings, and iconography for the 40 days leading up to the Nativity of Christ, showing how a full understanding of the Incarnation can enrich our spiritual lives. This wonderful devotional resource is a perfect way for anyone to spiritually prepare for the Advent season.

did not know exactly where to find the newborn king. Then Herod, when he saw that he was deceived by the wise men, was exceedingly angry; and he sent forth and put to death all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all its districts, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had determined from the wise men. Then was fulfilled what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying: “A voice was heard in Ramah, Lamentation, weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children,
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