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In this move clip from Elizabeth the Golden Age, Sir Walter Raleigh (played by Clive Owen) describes what hope feels like to him. What does hope feel like to you? http://www.wingclips.com/movie-clips/elizabeth-the-golden-age/nothing-but-the-horizon
Advent Music for week 1:
“Alleluia” from Handel’s Messiah as sung by the Royal Choral Society
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUZEtVbJT5c
Justin Timberlake sings a different version “Hallelujah” :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1LOm69hpR0
One of our favorites is Imagine by John Lennon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRhq-yO1KN8
The Annunciation by Henry Ossawa Tanner (1898)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Henry_Ossawa_Tanner_-_The_Annunciation.jpg
Mary is visited by the angel Gabriel and told that she will give birth to Jesus. In the painting below Gabriel is on the left and depicted as a shaft of light. Is this your vision of an angel? As such a young person, how might Mary feel? Seeing her youth in this image, can you begin to identify with Mary as someone who was close to your age? How does this change your experience of Advent this year?
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