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This book is an invitation to a pilgrimage through Advent, to Christmas itself and on to Epiphany. As the days and weeks pass, we will reflect on a range of issues - the significance of the festivities, the values that underpin our lives, some of the other special days in the Church calendar at this time, and how we can begin to deepen our understanding of God's perspective on our world, our church and ourselves.

'Pilgrimage' is more than a figure of speech in this book, however. You are invited to join an imaginary group of pilgrims on a path that starts in an average high street and leads through and beyond the city, offering lessons from the sights and sounds encountered along the way. It's not a conventional pilgrimage, following a well-trodden route to a well-known destination, but it is a pilgrimage of both head and heart that will help us to explore something of what it means to say that God is with us. We will see, too, how this truth brings both challenge and consolation for us as we follow the Christ-child.

Contents include:

• 1 - 7 December: Eat, drink and be merry
• 8 - 14 December: Earn all you can, save all you can, give all you can
• 15 - 21 December: Heavenly perspectives
• 22 - 28 December: Pilgrims to the Manger
• 29 December - 4 January: Travelling into tomorrow
• 5 - 6 January: The way ahead

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Author info

Naomi Starkey is a Commissioning Editor for BRF and edits and writes for New Daylight Bible reading notes. She has also written Good Enough Mother and reviews books for The Church Times.

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Reviews

From The Good Bookstall - October 2010

I have reviewed BRF Advent to Epiphany books in the past by browsing through them but wanting to keep them for reading properly when Advent started. This time I began to read and found myself reading on and on, completely absorbed in the pilgrimage Naomi Starkey was leading.

The theme is a walk through an imaginary cathedral city; first through the town centre, then the suburbs, before going out into the country and viewing the city from a hilltop. Back into the city the next week is spent in the cathedral and the following week we travel home through the countryside to where we part from our fellow pilgrims on a quiet beach.

Every day we are encouraged to think about different issues arising from what we see around us and relating that reflection to the chosen Bible reading for the day. The complete reading is here in the book, the reflection is well worth time spent meditating upon and the closing prayer/reflection for the day is well worth remembering long after the Advent season.

Reviewed by Mary Bartholomew

Book details

• ISBN: 9780857460127Z
• Published: 17 September 2010
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• Format: PDF Download
• Pages: 208