St. Augustine's Advent & Christmas Calendar 2025

The Huron Carol   Saint Jean de Brébeuf 1593 -1649 Tom Jackson Col 3:1-4, 12-17; Ps 23; Lk 10:1-9 or 1 Jn 2:18-21; Ps 96:1-2, 11-13; Jn 1:1-18   Jesous Ahatonhia   |   'Twas in the Moon of Winter Time   |  The Huron Carol The song is a marriage between Christian and Wendat belief systems . . . and was used to bridge understandings and build better relationships . . . .de Brébeuf took the time to immerse himself in [Wendat] culture, learn the language and honour his hosts with [the Huron Carol].  This mindfulness should be our model of understanding in reconciliation . Tony Snow is a member of the Stoney Nakoda Nation and co-ordinator of community and pastoral care at McDougall United in Calgary   from   The complex history of the Huron Carol Broadview , Copyright Observer Publications Inc., 2025     Jesous Ahatonhia - chanté en huron-wendat Ensemble Renouveau

    Painting by Elizabeth O. 1 Jn 2:12-17   Ps 96:7-10   Lk 2:36-40   When they had finished everything required by the law of the Lord,  they returned to Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth.    The child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom;  and the favour of God was upon him. Luke 2:39-40 —   The Hymn By Marie Howe It began as an almost inaudible hum,    low and long for the solar winds       and far dim galaxies, a hymn growing louder, for the moon and the sun,    a song without words for the snow falling,       for snow conceiving snow conceiving rain, the rivers rushing without shame,    the hum turning again higher—into a riff of ridges,       peaks hard as consonants, summits and praise for the rocky faults and crust and crevices    then down down to the roots and rocks and burrows,       the lakes’ skittery surfaces, wells, oceans, breaking waves, the salt-deep: the warm bodies moving within it:    the cold de...

  Palestinian Children in Jenin   Jer 31:15-17 or Rev 21:1-7   Ps 124   Mt 2:13-18 Thus says the Lord : A voice is heard in Ramah,     lamentation and bitter weeping. Rachel is weeping for her children;     she refuses to be comforted for her children,     because they are no more. Thus says the Lord : Keep your voice from weeping,     and your eyes from tears; for there is a reward for your work,   says the Lord :     they shall come back from the land of the enemy; there is hope for your future,   says the Lord :     your children shall come back to their own country. Jeremiah 31:15-17 --   Blessed be the Lord,     who has not given us     as prey to their teeth. We have escaped like a bird     from the snare of the fowlers; the snare is broken,     and we have escaped. Our help is in the name of the Lord,     who made heaven and ea...

  Is 63:7-9; Ps 148; Heb 2:10-18; Mt 2:13-23 For he said, ‘Surely they are my people,     children who will not deal falsely’; and he became their saviour      in all their distress.   It was no messenger or angel     but his presence that saved them;[b] in his love and in his pity he redeemed them;     he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.   Isaiah 63:8-9  A Christmas Carol In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, long ago. Our God, Heaven cannot hold Him, nor earth sustain; Heaven and earth shall flee away when He comes to reign. In the bleak midwinter a stable place sufficed The Lord God Almighty, Jesus Christ. Enough for Him, whom cherubim, worship night and day, Breastful of milk, and a mangerful of hay; Enough for Him, whom angels fall before, The ox and ass and camel which adore....

  Gen 1:1-5, 12-19  or  Gen 1  1 Jn 1:1-9   Ps 92:1-2, 11-14   Jn 20:1-8;  or    1 Jn 1:5-10   Ps 27:5-13   Jn 1:6-14 God Is Light This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light and in him there is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him while we are walking in darkness, we lie and do not do what is true; but if we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of  Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he who is faithful and just will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.   1 John 1:5-9 Teach me your way, O Lord,     and lead me on a level path     because of my enemies.    Psalm 27:11   Nativity The moon is born...

    Jer 26:1-9, 12-15)  Acts 6:8 - 7:2, 51-60   Ps 31:1-7, 16   Mt 23:34-39 1 Jn 1:1-4   Ps 136:1-9, 23-26   Jn 1:1-5 In you, O Lord, I seek refuge ;     do not let me ever be put to shame ;     in your righteousness deliver me . Incline your ear to me ;     rescue me speedily . Be a rock of refuge for me ,     a strong fortress to save me . You are indeed my rock and my fortress ;     for your name’s sake lead me and guide me , take me out of the net that is hidden for me ,     for you are my refuge.   Psalm 31:1-4     — Human beings suffer , They torture one another , They get hurt and get hard . No poem or play or song Can fully right a wrong Inflicted and endured . . . .  History says ,   Don't hope On this side of the grave . But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave  Of Justice can rise up And hope and history rhyme . So hope...