Hallelujah: Cultivating Advent Traditions with Handel’s Messiah
Make Handel’s Messiah Part of Your Advent Season
Hallelujah: Cultivating Advent Traditions with Handel’s Messiah is featured in the TheFederalist.com in a 2024 gift guide:
“There’s a Messiah sing-along this year in my town, and I can’t wait to go. Many, many families love to center Advent and Christmas family time around George Friedrich Handel’s masterpiece. I love Cindy Rollins’ mom-friendly guide to doing so . . . “
Family traditions become established, sometimes quite by accident and sometimes because “we’ve always done it that way.” But the best family traditions are thoughtfully cultivated. With Hallelujah: Cultivating Advent Traditions With Handel’s Messiah, Cindy Rollins leads the way in building a rich Advent tradition for you and your family.
But the best family traditions are thoughtfully cultivated.
Inside you will find:
- Weekly Scripture passages, hymns, and poems,
- Daily Messiah listening schedule with background information from Greg Wilbur
- An overview of the church calendar by Thomas Banks
- Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany recipes, and
- Suggestions for celebrating the Advent feasts of St. Nicholas and St. Lucia.
Cindy also invited four of her friends to share how they celebrate Advent with their own families.
“Advent is a season of preparation and anticipation. This delightful volume provides meaningful, beautiful, and practical ways to prepare our hearts for the great mystery of Christ’s Nativity.”
Angelina Stanford • House of Humane Letters
“Waiting has never been so beautiful…Filled with words of wisdom, recipes, and Rollins family memories, Hallelujah helps moms rightly focus the season of Advent on waiting for the birth of the King. Simple listening guides make accomplishing each day’s reflection doable even in the busiest household, while longer reflections feed a mama’s heart. This guide is a treasure you will return to year after year.”
Pam Barnhill • Your Morning Basket Podcast Host
About the Author
Cindy Rollins is the co-host of “The Literary Life Podcast” and author of Mere Motherhood. A mother of nine and homeschool veteran of 30 years, Cindy loves to encourage moms with wisdom gleaned from her mothering and homeschooling experiences. In particular, Cindy writes and speaks about how “Morning Time” transformed homeschooling for her family.
Visit Cindy’s website at CindyRollins.net.