THE ADVENT SERIES

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Our Advent Series from 2011 is being

"updated" with some fresh material,

and we'll continue to work on it through the month.

Sorry to be running a day late.  
Please go here:

http://maninthemaze.blogspot.com/2011/12/advent-season-of-waiting.html

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And here's a full list of all 25 days
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ADVENT - THE SEASON OF WAITING
THE SHAKING REALITY OF ADVENT
ROOM FOR CHRIST 
HEART ATTACK SEASON
GABRIEL'S ANNOUNCEMENT 
SAINT NICK'S DAY 
KEEP AWAKE AND WATCH 
CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY
CHRISTMAS CARDS, HEROD, AND MORE
 JOHN THE BAPTIST
THE MAGI ARE MOVING
OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE
THE BELLS OF CHRISTMAS
JOSEPH'S DREAM
MATERIALISM & CHRISTMAS - THE SECULAR & THE SACRED
THE TIME OF NO ROOM
CHRISTMAS THROUGH INDIAN EYES
THE FINAL WEEK OF WAITING
ANGELS FROM ON HIGH
THE JEWS OF JESUS' TIME
FROM BETHLEHEM TO GOLGATHA
WINTER SOLSTICE
GOOD KING WENCESLAS
THE END OF ADVENT
CHRISTMAS DAY

Thanks for visiting.

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Day 2 - THE SHAKING REALITY OF ADVENT

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Day 2 of The Advent Series is up -

http://maninthemaze.blogspot.com/2011/12/shaking-reality-of-advent.html
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Day 1 - THE SEASON OF WAITING

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Our Advent Series starts today -
it's getting "updated" with some fresh material
on a day by day basis.
Please go here:

http://maninthemaze.blogspot.com/2011/12/advent-season-of-waiting.html

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ADVENT SERIES RETURNS SATURDAY

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Out Advent Series - now in its third season,

will return on Saturday.  The series is a blend

of imagery, text, music, and occasional video.

  Once again, we'll try to take time and embelish

 each day's entry, so that it isn't just a replay of

what you saw last year.

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AUGUST 21 - CHRIST WAS BORN 2018 YEARS AGO TODAY!

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From THE URANTIA BOOK

Part IV, 132, 8

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 The Birth of Jesus
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 All that night Mary was restless so that neither of them slept much. By the break of day the pangs of childbirth were well in evidence, and at noon, August 21, 7 B.C., with the help and kind ministrations of women fellow travelers, Mary was delivered of a male child. Jesus of Nazareth was born into the world, was wrapped in the clothes which Mary had brought along for such a possible contingency, and laid in a near-by manger.
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 In just the same manner as all babies before that day and since have come into the world, the promised child was born; and on the eighth day, according to the Jewish practice, he was circumcised and formally named Joshua (Jesus).
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 The next day after the birth of Jesus, Joseph made his enrollment. Meeting a man they had talked with two nights previously at Jericho, Joseph was taken by him to a well-to-do friend who had a room at the inn, and who said he would gladly exchange quarters with the Nazareth couple. That afternoon they moved up to the inn, where they lived for almost three weeks until they found lodgings in the home of a distant relative of Joseph.

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 The second day after the birth of Jesus, Mary sent word to Elizabeth that her child had come and received word in return inviting Joseph up to Jerusalem to talk over all their affairs with Zacharias. The following week Joseph went to Jerusalem to confer with Zacharias. Both Zacharias and Elizabeth had become possessed with the sincere conviction that Jesus was indeed to become the Jewish deliverer, the Messiah, and that their son John was to be his chief of aides, his right-hand man of destiny. And since Mary held these same ideas, it was not difficult to prevail upon Joseph to remain in Bethlehem, the City of David, so that Jesus might grow up to become the successor of David on the throne of all Israel. Accordingly, they remained in Bethlehem more than a year, Joseph meantime working some at his carpenter’s trade.

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 At the noontide birth of Jesus the seraphim of Urantia, assembled under their directors, did sing anthems of glory over the Bethlehem manger, but these utterances of praise were not heard by human ears. No shepherds nor any other mortal creatures came to pay homage to the babe of Bethlehem until the day of the arrival of certain priests from Ur, who were sent down from Jerusalem by Zacharias.

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 These priests from Mesopotamia had been told sometime before by a strange religious teacher of their country that he had had a dream in which he was informed that “the light of life” was about to appear on earth as a babe and among the Jews. And thither went these three teachers looking for this “light of life.” After many weeks of futile search in Jerusalem, they were about to return to Ur when Zacharias met them and disclosed his belief that Jesus was the object of their quest and sent them on to Bethlehem, where they found the babe and left their gifts with Mary, his earth mother. The babe was almost three weeks old at the time of their visit.
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 These wise men saw no star to guide them to Bethlehem. The beautiful legend of the star of Bethlehem originated in this way: Jesus was born August 21 at noon, 7 B.C. On May 29, 7 B.C., there occurred an extraordinary conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn in the constellation of Pisces. And it is a remarkable astronomic fact that similar conjunctions occurred on September 29 and December 5 of the same year. Upon the basis of these extraordinary but wholly natural events the well-meaning zealots of the succeeding generation constructed the appealing legend of the star of Bethlehem and the adoring Magi led thereby to the manger, where they beheld and worshiped the newborn babe. Oriental and near-Oriental minds delight in fairy stories, and they are continually spinning such beautiful myths about the lives of their religious leaders and political heroes. In the absence of printing, when most human knowledge was passed by word of mouth from one generation to another, it was very easy for myths to become traditions and for traditions eventually to become accepted as facts.

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Our ADVENT SERIES has a large amount of Christmas related

photos and graphics; various prayers, poems, and stories; and

  lots of music.  Here's a link to the "Introduction" page

 that has a list of the subect matter for each day.

http://maninthemaze.com/theadventseries/introduction.html

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Merry Christmas!

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ADVENT SERIES BEGINS DECEMBER 1

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The Advent Series is on its third year (2012).  

The full Advent Series starts here:
http://maninthemaze.blogspot.com/2011/12/advent-season-of-waiting.html

The Series is a combination of

photos and graphics, short essays,

poems, prayers, and music -

all on an Advent theme.

To set the tone for things today I'm

including a link to my Youtube channel,

to a short (5:42) video of birds from the

Rio Grande Valley, all in motion to

the music of Paul Schwartz -

the AMAZING Paul Schwartz,

"Veni Redemptor Gentium" -

("Come Redeemer of the People").

It's an ancient prayer from the 4th

century written by St. Ambrose,

presented in a dynamic musical format.

This is true Advent music.

Please check it out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKwZ4L6i1no

Thanks for visiting and please check out the series -
each day is very different.

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THE ADVENT SERIES

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The Advent series is over,

but we're going to be fine-tuning

with more text, music, and images.

We're leaving the series up

indefinitely. Pick a topic below

that catches your interest and

see what's what!

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THE ADVENT SERIES

Day 1 - THE SEASON OF WAITING

Day 2 - THE SHAKING REALITY OF ADVENT

Day 3 - ROOM FOR CHRIST

Day 4 - HEART ATTACK SEASON

Day 5 - GABRIEL'S ANNOUNCEMENT

Day 6 - SAINT NICK'S DAY

Day 7 - KEEP AWAKE AND WATCH

Day 8 - CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY

Day 9 - CHRISTMAS CARDS, HEROD, AND MORE

Day 10 - JOHN THE BAPTIST

Day 11 - THE MAGI ARE MOVING

Day 12 - OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE

Day 13 - THE BELLS OF CHRISTMAS

Day 14 - JOSEPH'S DREAM

Day 15 - THE CENTRAL PLOT OF CHRISTMAS

Day 16 - THE TIME OF NO ROOM

Day 17 - CHRISTMAS THROUGH INDIAN EYES

Day 18 - THE FINAL WEEK OF WAITING

Day 19 - AN ANGEL'S VIEW OF CHRISTMAS

Day 20 - THE JEWS OF JESUS' TIME

Day 21 - THE WINTER SOLSTICE

Day 22 - FROM BETHLEHEM TO GOLGATHA

Day 23 - GOOD KING WENCESLAS

Day 24 - THE END OF ADVENT (2009)

CHRISTMAS DAY

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CHRISTMAS THROUGH INDIAN EYES

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This is just a sample of what was in

Day 17 (yesterday) of our Advent Series,
which runs through Christmas Day.

There's short bits of text, lots of imagery,

and more, each day - Dec 1 through Dec 25.

It's all about Christmas,

and the Second Coming, and more.

Good Music!

Check Christmas Through Indian Eyes,

and then graze onward!

http://www.maninthemaze.com/theadventseries/day17.html

ADVENT SERIES STARTS DECEMBER 1

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"The Advent Series" begins tommorow on

the Man in the Maze website.

I don't follow the church calendar exactly,

or it would have started last week.

"Day 1" of the series is December 1,

and so on. It's just simpler that way.

The address is right here:

http://www.maninthemaze.com/theadventseries/day1.html