Seed of the Sower, Vol. 2, Page 3

Text Box: At this, the beginning of the new year, we turn to celebrate with expectant hope the coming of our Lord, and look forward to his coming again in glory as he has promised. The word Advent comes from the Lain Adventus, and is coupled with Redemptoris, signifying ‘the coming

Text Box: of the Savior.’ When taken apart the word Christmas is Christ-Mass, or Christ-Sacrifice. We don't often think of Christmas in terms of sacrifice, but the fact is our Lord made an oblation of himself when he deigned to be born of the Virgin, he did so again when he was crucified on the cross

Text Box: for our sins, when he ascended into heavenly glory, and shall once more when he returns with the angels to judge the world. Jesus both gives his life for us and lives his life for us. So we say with the angels and saints of heaven, Rejoice in the Lord always; again I say, rejoice! The Lord is near.

Text Box: Together with Advent, the feast of St. Lucy marks the beginning of the Christmas season and in the Julian calendar it fell on the winter solstice. Traditionally an important feast day in all of Western Christendom and long associated with the theme of light

Text Box: overcoming the darkness, the holiday was introduced in Denmark in 1944 as an underground form of protest against the Nazi occupation. St. Lucia buns, which are made with saffron, are usually eaten as part of the celebrations. St. Lucy is the patron saint of the blind.

Text Box: Lucy's name means "light", with the same root as "lucid" which means "clear, radiant, and understandable." All we really know for certain is that this brave woman who lived in Syracuse lost her life in the persecution of Christians in the early fourth century.

Text Box: the Sower is beginning to bud with the grace of new life and youthful growth. Our following temporal goals, with His grace, are To expand the rosary brochure into a bona-fide booklet suitable for use in meditation

Text Box: Thanks be to God the Community Miscellany is now complete and is offered for sale on our website. Demo copies have been mailed to all members with the final printing accomplished earlier this month. Although very young, the Reformed and Re-formed Community of Christ

Text Box: To secure a professional advertisement in the Anglican Digest, and To cause to be created a Christ the Sower cross/medallion entirely unique to our order. May the Lord bless these goals; that they promote his kingdom.

The restoration of the Church will surely come from a new kind of monasticism, which will have nothing in common with the old but a life of uncompromising adherence to the Sermon on the Mount in imitation of Christ. I believe the time has come to rally people together for this.

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer