Sentence examples for advent Service from inspiring English sources
Advent Service of Lessons and Carols.
After their Advent service, some of the congregation were off to enjoy a spot of multi-denominational carolling to raise money for charity.
As part of the Advent service, they celebrated a baptism and sang their way through a series of hymns including "Child in the Manger".
The altar hanging at an English Advent service was made of midnight blue, with these words across its top: "We thank you that darkness reminds us of light".
The use of the Advent Wreath is also popular during the Advent season in homes and Advent services of many Christian denominations.
The church invited the three speakers -- Rev. Jane Spahr, Rev. Roland Stringfellow and retired Episcopal Bishop Otis Charles -- to act as guest speakers at several Advent services leading up to Christmas.
This month, Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church in San Francisco's Castro District was left disappointed after Archbishop George Niederauer asked the parish to rescind invitations to three gay-friendly clergy members to speak at a series of pre-Christmas Advent services.
It is thought by hymnology scholars that it originated in the ninth century or earlier as seven short verses sung immediately before or after the reading of a Psalm in Advent services of worship.
The music industry suffered a "hurricane Katrina" from illegal downloads, streaming, YouTube and other innovations for which it was unprepared, says Carter, but the advent of services such as iTunes, Spotify and Pandora tamed piracy and generated income.
The advent of service-oriented architectures in Grid environments has fostered the development of applications in distributed deployments.
Internet providers have been demoted to dumb tubes with the advent of services like Netflix, iTunes, Spotify and others, which is not where they want to be.
