True Love: Sermons for Advent (The Anglo-Catholic Pulpit)

True Love: Sermons for Advent (The Anglo-Catholic Pulpit)

In this collection of Advent sermons, The Rev. Canon Glenn Spencer explores themes of faith, conversion, and the Incarnation of Christ. True Love takes readers from the Sunday before Advent to the Feast of the Circumcision, examining how participation in Christ’s perfected humanity transforms a person into a child of God. Each sermon includes reflection questions for personal devotion or small group study that will help the reader prepare for and reflect on the Feast of the Nativity. Advent: the time of preparation for the coming of Jesus, for stirring ourselves to receive him in a fitting manner, for anticipating the Kingdom when we shall not only pray but also be prayer itself. Advent is a time to study, to go more deeply into Scripture; and these luminous sermons will help us all as we venture down that path. Kevin Hart The Divinity School Duke University In this stirring Advent series, Fr. Spencer invites us to see reality as God sees it. He unpacks the Incarnation as the Uber Sacrament using a practical spiritual method called Catholic Realism to challenge the naive empiricism of our time. With the engaging metaphor of “spiritual horizons,” Fr. Spencer shows conversion as the journey of expanding our vision to see the world as Christ sees it. Through that perspective, we are called to fall in love with God, to deepen our prayer life, and to practice the Works of Mercy. The Very Rev. Matthew Harlow, SSC Christ the Redeemer Anglican Church Warner Robins, Georgia Fr. Spencer’s Advent sermons return our attention to the important themes of orthodox Christology, Catholic Realism, and divine love with the same sense of urgency and pastoral seriousness for which he has become well known in his years of parish ministry and diocesan work. The Very Rev. Paul Rivard St. George the Martyr Anglican Church Simpsonville, South Carolina