#3rd Sunday of Advent

[mitigatingchaos]

Sunday Pipes #125

Music for the 3rd Sunday of Advent. Prelude for the Third Sunday of Advent by Dr. Timothy Shrewmaker.  This prelude uses the tunes of Freu Dich Sehr (translated, “I’m very happy”)  and Puer Nobis (translated: Unto us a born a Son”) and is played on the Mac Range organ at Our Redeemer Lutheran Church in Dallas, TX. (USA)  

[virtie333]

He was a burning and shining lamp, and for a while you were content to rejoice in his light. (Jn 5:35)

[theoniprince]

☃️Happy 3. Advent🎄

Yesterday I met some friends in Frankfurt. Those colorful christmas trees are part of the christmas decoration in the shopping mall "Skyline Plaza".

Oh and it snowed overnight. 🌨❄️

[dwuerch-blog]

Let the Joy Bells Ring

Today is the third Sunday of Advent and we should be singing “Go Tell It on the Mountain”! Well, not necessarily from a mountain. That would mean we’d have to go climbing! Perhaps we can start right here at ground zero to be joy-filled and full of the good news of Christ’s coming to this earth for you and me. The pink, third candle on the Advent wreath is lit today. The pink candle symbolizes…

[meteorologistaustenlonek]

Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

[friarmusings]

Joy

I don’t normally have cause to travel around Christmas. I am here for the holidays with you! I pray that this holiday season is without winter storms roaring about. When you have to travel in such times, one can be quite happy that the airplane finally got off the ground. Once airborne, you were happy. A new round of happiness came when the pilot finally found smooth air. And even if it was 6…

[portraitsofsaints]

3rd Sunday of Advent/ Guadete Sunday 

O Holy Child Jesus, who sheds 

Your blessings on whoever invokes Your name, look kindly on us who kneel humbly before Your holy Image and hear our prayers.

Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase here: (website)

[royalchildreneurope]

Princess Madeleine of Sweden and Princess Adrienne of Sweden visit the Swedish Church for the first Sunday of Advent in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States -December 3rd 2023.

[eopederson]

Retablo de Navidad, Perú, purchased in Cuzco, 2017.

3rd Sunday in Advent.

One of our overly large collection of bélen from various places, mostly from Latin America but also some from Spain, France and Italy. The newest is from Quebéc, shall post a photo later.

[prolifeproliberty]

Reminder that Advent begins November 26th this year, and Christmas doesn’t begin until December 25th (the 12 Days of Christmas last from 12/25 to 1/5, the day before Epiphany)

The only answer to Christmas Creep is a return of the historical Christian liturgical calendar.

EDIT: It’s December 3rd this year since Christmas Eve falls on a Sunday!

[foxgloveprincess]

What’s more festive in the holiday season than spending time with loved ones, like our lovely downstairs husbands from A.W.A.? ❄️

Each Advent Sunday in December will see a new story in the lives of out A.W.A. fellas posting at 12:00 pm PST. If you’d like to stay notified, make sure you follow and turn on notifications for @foxglovefics.

Just like with an Advent Calendar full of sweets, I won’t be revealing to whom each story belongs until they post. Feel free to send in your guesses or any other fun thots or questions to my ask box. I’d love to hear your what you think and share some time thirsting with ya’ll over this AU! I hope ya’ll enjoy!

❄️ December 3rd Trapped By Your Love

❄️ December 10th On Another Level 2

❄️ December 17th Like a Moth to You 2

❄️ December 24th A Bit of My Heart 2

❄️ Bonus Sunday Attic Wives Anonymous: Meeting Three

[kakairu-rocks]

Yo! We’re a little late getting organised, but we are excited to announce our holiday event, the KakaIru Advent Calendar Battle 2023!

Since the holidays is a busy period for everyone, and there are fans who don’t create, we decided to make this a non-creation event, which will run from 4th Dec - 31st Jan!

How It Works:

Each week, from Monday, 4th Dec, you will vote on your favourite tropes; and at the end of the week, the bottom three (the ones with the least amount of votes) will be removed from the list.

In the final vote, the trope with the highest amount of votes will be the winner; and the person who nominated the winning trope will receive a fic prize, using the trope they submitted!

Like an advent calendar, there will be 24 tropes to choose from for the main event, so if there are more than 24 nominations, there will be a preliminary round so that everybody gets a chance to compete!

If you want to nominate a trope, and have a chance at winning the prize, you can do so here until Sunday, 3rd Dec!

If you want to participate, but don’t have any ideas, we have provided some in the sign up sheet that you can choose from, if you like!

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask!

We hope you can join us for this event!

[guiltiest-gear]

Hi. I once sent a really sleep-deprived ask to one of your mutuals about how one would classify the relationship of the father the son and the holy spirit from the christian bible. now im back for you

You said "fascinated by the implication that angels have a mating season" in your tags on this post (https : // www.tumblr.com / guiltiest-gear / 757819319325425664? source=share). Here's when I think it would be with an explanation.

I believe a Christian angel's 'mating season' would begin when Advent starts. Advent begins the fourth Sunday before Christmas Day, so it moves around a bit from year to year (I believe most heat cycles are like this, as are human periods. Maybe the people I know are just malnutritioned though.) As angels are higher beings than humans, we don't need to account for a ~9 month gestational period for any potential offspring. While I am aware that in most pieces of fiction with heat cycles, the creation of life is not typically the main goal after every copulation, I believe angels would be very - and pardon the pun - religious about their traditions. If their heat cycles began on the first day of Advent every year (which for a long-life/immortal species such as angels would probably feel like about once a month), they would then be prepared to produce offspring on Christmas Day proper - the day Christ the Lord was born. Very symbolic. Like racehorses.

I toyed with the idea of angels having a heat cycle earlier/later in the year (in the Christian calendar, Advent is the start of the year, not january), but there aren't actually that many important days in the Christian calendar outside of saints days, and there isn't one particular saint that I feel earns the privilege of having their death day be the time the angels start fucking. I also considered Easter Day, as that is the day Christ rose from the dead, and would symbolize the creation of life just as Christmas day would symbolize that life arriving into the world, but again, angels are higher forms than hhumans, and probably don't need to deal with carrying a life to term, in whatever way that would work for them, for an extended period of time. that would also mean that angels would spend a good 2/3rd of their year "pregnant". No one wants that.

In conclusion uh. I'm sorry.

I gotta tell you anon

This is

This is definitely something

I'm honestly not sure how to react to this

[enjolraspermettendo]

OKAY in my country (Italy) we traditionally put up the Christmas Tree on the 8th of December for the Holiday of the Immacolata. We are very serious about this. We fight with people who put up the tree on different days, especially days before the 8th of December; we can excuse you if maybe you didn't have the time or couldn't on the 8th and you do it after, but if you do it before then you are a beast of Satan. However I just discovered that somewhere else it's tradition to put up the Christmas tree on Advent Sunday (generally between 27th of November and the 3rd of December)????

So

[friarmusings]

The Promise coming true

This coming Sunday is the 3rd Sunday of Advent known as Guadete Sunday – Rejoice Sunday. Divine joy is the very nature of God – creative; like an overflowing fountain – a fountain fullness. A joy that wants to be shared in wider and wider circles. A joy that asks us to join in the universal shout for joy. The words of the introit of the Mass are the hallmark of Guadette Sunday: “Rejoice in the…

[mpreg-nouveau]

Turn of the century omegaverse thoughts

Cause I'm a huge fucking history nerd and I was thinking about, what would omegaverse look like at different points in history/how would it effect history, and given the motif of this blog I thought I'd share some from 1900s-1910s.

Note, this is not me romanticising these concepts, just thinking about potential plotlines or ideas that COULD result from omegaverse being part of this point in the human time line, both good, bad, and just weird:

–omega sufferage movement along side women's sufferage

–the overlap between women’s rights movement and the issues of A/B/O hierarchies creating a lot of fuss and questions during the time, especially with news print and communication getting more and more wide spread.

–ex, it being considered ok for an alpha female to dress in men's clothing and do work as the primary breadwinner when her husband or wife is an omega, but what happens when she is with an alpha male who is socially EXPECTED to be the primary bread winner at the time? Is the woman supposed to quit her job and become a house wife upon marriage? She certainly doesn't think so and neither does her husband.

–i feel like the American hierarchy at the time is alpha male>alpha female=beta male>beta female=omega male=omega female.

–omegas using labor unions to fight for equal treatment and pay in new industrial settings.

--factories are hesitant to hire them because fearing their workers will go on heat regularly and slow down production. People having to hide that they are omegas to get work as a result. This was the time period where you could get fired for a work place injury after all.

–people coming to the States for the first time with different cultural expectations for the a/b/o dynamics and getting some culture shock from American life, whether american standards are stricter, less strict, or entirely flipped from their home perspectives.

–along with with the Gibson girl there's also the Gibson boy representing the dainty stereotype of omegas. 

–the new middle class and upper middle class suddenly being targeted by mass production industrial giants advertising new, useless creature comforts to build extravagant and gorgeous nests and dens

–patent medicines that are utterly worthless but advertise to act as heat suppressants, rut control, and to make your scent more appealing to others

–in order to pander to ideals of modernization and “civility” american upper crusts comparing their a/b/o status to various dog breeds instead of wolves. There's essentially a horoscope of sorts they've come up with to align themselves with specific dog breeds and the stereotypes there off.

– ex: “my father was an alpha bulldog type, and my mother a beta beagle designation, and because I was born on the 3rd Sunday in August as an omega, I am a jack Russell terrier designation.

–people keep harassing Arthur Conan Doyle for Watson and Sherlock’s canonic designation. This is what causes the poor man to lose it and start believing in fairies. 

–omega heat cars on trains for single individuals to hang out in and avoid perverts. Its meant as a kind gesture but instead just ends up playing into puritan culture surrounding omega bodies. 

–as electricity is being installed in more and more homes there's an irrational worry that the electrical circuits in the walls will mess with the cycles of heat and rut among some. 

–its completely unfounded but causes people to resist the switch anyways

–meanwhile there IS evidence that gas based light fixtures DO have negative effects on the body but everyone grew up with them “and I turned out ok so it must be fine”

–advent of widespread vaccines and better standards of sanitation means that entire litters of pups are surviving childhood now

–families that worried to name pups after they were born, as back in their home land it was rare for more than one per litter to survive, suddenly are having miracle litters. Every single pup is ending up getting spoiled by these families who expected the worst.

–new ridiculous electric inventions come out catering to beautification and a/b/o fertility care. One is a body massage device that supposedly increases the chances of having a healthy and fruitful pregnancy….it's essentially a hand held belly rub machine. 

– most of the US was still rural and isolated from the cities at this time. Few had ventured 20 miles from their home town. Rural parents worrying about their omega children marrying people from the city…because of a genuine yet misguided fear of their kids getting so overwhelmed by all the new scents  in the city that they will immediately have a seizure and die. 

–during the turn of the century it was already fairly common for kids to wear gender neutral, play safe clothing like gowns all the way up to 8 years old, so gender neutral clothing being common until a kid presents for the first time.

–classes getting divided into alphas, omegas, and betas in some puritanical schools in order to “protect the children” as the new US mandatory  public school system is getting hammered out

–packs becoming a looser term for more wide social circles rather than relatives or clans due to migration of people both into the nation and throughout. 

–Ex: woman forming packs based on sharing supplies in a new city with each other, or packs surrounding shared interest in activities like sewing or books

–the Boston Red Sox declare themselves a pack one day.

–I feel like a lot of politicians pretend to be alphas for status

–teddy Roosevelt secretly being an omega but nobody realizes this cause he's constantly covered in wood ash and various funk from his game hunting and overtly manly activities. Everyone just assumes he's an alpha between that and his personality.

(Edit: clarification on the last one, this is a joke about how the guy had horrible asthma and other chronic health issues especially while young, which for most people at the time would mean a very short life span, but no one knew because the dude compensated with so much exercise and other extreme health stuff you could do at the time you could not tell. Dude even took a bullet to the chest midway through a speech and then finished said speech. Dude basically made himself a stereotype of an "alpha male")