This Advent book contains family devotions that focus on connecting Jesus and the symbols of Christmas. Each day includes a devotional, prayer, questions to discuss, the meaning of a Christmas symbol,
Even though its kind sacrifices for the animals of the forest have marred the perfection of its shape, Small Pine is selected to be the Christmas tree in the Queen's castle, demonstrating that living
Spend the Christmas season in Peanuts style with this fun advent calendar from Galison. Each window reveals holiday antics from all your favorite Peanuts characters.• Size: 14 x 17"• 25 window fl
With a gingerbread house complete with candy canes, gumdrops, and swirls of frosting, this advent calendar from Galison looks good enough to eat! Behind each door you will find all sorts of Christmas
The great many shrines of New Spain have become long-lived sites of shared devotion and contestation across social groups. They have provided a lasting sense of enchantment, of divine immanence in the present, and a hunger for epiphanies in daily life. This is a story of consolidation and growth during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, rather than one of rise and decline in the face of early stages of modernization. Based on research in a wide array of manuscript and printed primary sources, and informed by recent scholarship in art history, religious studies, anthropology, and history, this is the first comprehensive study of shrines and miraculous images in any part of early modern Latin America.
Throughout Advent we read and sing the words Prepare the Way as we makeroom to welcome the Christ child into our lives once again. We prepareour city streets and buildings. We prepare our homes and wo