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By Bishop Richard Treloar

Famously, in Luke’s nativity story, there is ‘no room at the inn’.

This great season of Advent is all about making room – making room for God; making room for each other; making room for the future.

Seasons that feature the colour purple in worship are traditionally times of preparation. Lent has a somewhat penitential flavour to it. Advent, by contrast, is a time of expectant waiting – ‘nesting’, as it were – ahead of the birth of a newborn king who will grow up to subvert all our notions of kingship and power, as we heard on the last Sunday before Advent – the feast of Christ the King – in the gospel passage from Jesus’ trial before Pilate.