Advent Week 4: Conception

 In the final week of Advent, we light all four candles.

 If you have a fifth, you keep this aside for the eve of Nativity. We light the three candles we lit over the past three weeks (or their replacements) and the final colored candle.

Though we celebrate the Conception of God the Daughter in the second week of Advent (11 Astraea/8 Dec), this week we again contemplate this great Act where the Mother reaches out to us through all of space and time, through the abyss that lay between us, to send us Her Daughter.

Verses for Week 4

Mythos of the Divine Maid, Chapter 1:3-7
She stood in contemplation upon the waters of the first darkness; like a great Dove upon the waters She brooded. And She became absorbed within Her and communed with Her own Self; and Her light ceased to shine forth from Her, and yet Her light grew greater. And She fell to Her knees. And the surface of the waters became turbulent, and the great waves curled over Her, and their white foam could not be seen in all that darkness. And when the waters became calm again, the Mistress of All Things rose to Her feet. For She had conceived a Daughter that was not separate from Her, but one with Her, and the child of Her Light.

We will see the remainder of this chapter on Nativity Eve and the morning of Nativity. It is so soon!!