Repeat the Sounding Joy (Advent Day 15)

Repeat the Sounding Joy (Advent Day 15)

Author: Kate Bowler
Source: Kate Bowler, Substack
Link: https://katebowler.substack.com/p/advent-day-15-repeat-the-sounding
Advent placement: 2025-12-14 (paired with [[14-glendalough-double-barrel-irish-whiskey]])

Theme: Gaudete Sunday - taking joy off the shelf and putting it into circulation.

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Reproduced from calendar/2025-12-14.qmd (Whisk(e)y Advent 2025).

Repeat the sounding joy.

from Kate Bowler, Advent Day 15

So on this Gaudete Sunday—the pink candle day, the little exhale in the middle of waiting—let’s take joy off the shelf where we keep fancy words and put it in circulation. Not because everything is fine. Because Christ has come, is coming, and will come again—“far as the curse is found.”

Blessed are we whose hearts feel crowded and tired, who hear an old song and dare to hum along. Blessed are we who make a little room anyway— in sinkful kitchens, in traffic, in grief— and find that Joy has already arrived, ringing the doorbell with both hands.