Most evangelicals don't normally observe the seasons of the traditional church calendar. For some reason, around Christmas and Easter, I find much meaning in it. Perhaps, it is simply the "tradition" of the season, or maybe it is a need to be more connected to the larger history of the Church. I think it is healthy for some of us in newer and more free churches to pick up some of the traditions that have been shed along the way. Understanding how easily tradition can become empty ritual, we can still find meaning and understanding in some of these observances. Even when many of us are just learning them.
The season of Advent is a great example of this.
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The coming or arrival, especially of something extremely important: the advent of the computer.
The liturgical period preceding Christmas, beginning in Western churches on the fourth Sunday before Christmas and in Eastern churches in mid-November, and observed by many Christians as a season of prayer, fasting, and penitence.
Christianity The coming of Jesus at the Incarnation.
[Middle English, the Advent season, from Old French, from Latinadventus, arrival, from past participle of advenīre, to come to :ad-, ad- + venīre, to come; see gwā- in Indo-European roots.]
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Second Coming
n. Christianity
The return of Jesus as judge for the Last Judgment. Also calledAdvent, Second Advent
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