In the Middle Ages Mary's Song inspired the Feast of Fools celebrated after Christmas usually around New year. This feast was a literal acting out of the Magnificat as a rather strange way of witnessing to God’s kingdom that inverts human power structures and raises up the oppressed to places of honour.

We are to give up our insatiable desire to consume and replace it with the expectation of the coming of Jesus.

Advent is a time of reflection and preparation for when time will end and Jesus will come in power and glory bringing our waiting to completion.

What we look to is the theological virtue of Hope. A virtue that helps us grow our relationship with God.

The Kingship of Christ holds the place of ultimate authority over all aspects of human life.

God is portrayed throughout the psalter as being the protector, in a way that no human is able.

Casting a shadow over a lot of religious thought is the concept of judgement.

We live in a society that has in many ways abandoned its traditional patterns of mourning.

A time to relax and to reflect on the efforts made by trade unions to get this balance.