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Add the Angelus to Your Advent Wreath Devotion
Jared Dees suggests adding the Angelus to your Advent wreath devotion to reinforce and ingrain in your family’s minds and hearts exactly what we are meant to meditate on during Advent.
Browsing: Advent
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Meeting Jesus in the Quiet and Crazy of Advent
Feeling a bit fragmented this Advent? Sarah Damm discovers that Jesus meets us in the quiet and the crazy that surrounds this special time of year.
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The God Who Comes
Melanie Jean Juneau offers a poem on Advent, hope and expectation. Advent is a time of waiting with hope because God always answers, always fulfills His promises.
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Tech Talk: 10-Minute Advent Retreat from Catholic Relief Services
For those who don’t think they have time to make an Advent retreat, Catholic Relief Services packs a powerful spiritual experience in a 10-minute online retreat. Barb Szyszkiewicz shares her impressions of “Holy Family, Refugee Family.”
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Beginning Advent with a False Start…It’s Never Too Late to Start Again!
Feeling like you failed at Advent? It is NEVER too late to grow closer to Christ. Meg Bucaro suggests you find something, even ONE thing you can do today or tomorrow, that will further strengthen your closeness to Christ.
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Advent - Hushing our Hurried Hearts
Advent is a time to still our hearts and prepare for Him – even while the world skips ahead to the feast in a swirl of activity. Claire Dwyer wonders how we can set our inner watches to the holy reality of sacred time.
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Advent Prayers from Catholic Relief Services
As much as we are making way for God to come into the world, we are, too, making way for God to come into our hearts. Join Catholic Relief Services in this Advent season in praying the prayers, engaging more deeply and more globally in this holy season.
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Waiting is the Hardest Part
Laura Nelson urges readers not to hurry through a time of waiting, but to allow anticipation to turn into joy.
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To All the Busy People
Kelly Pease reflects on two kinds of busy-ness: the busy-ness of the life that God has called us to and the kind of busy-ness that keeps us from the real encounter we are meant to be having within those lives we’ve been given.
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Advent is a Time of “Passion for the Possible” -- Seeing Our Limitations as an Opening for God’s Greatness
Judy Klein applies Susan Muto’s insights on the Beatitudes to the theme of waiting during Advent.
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Advent and Refugees: Maranatha
Jane Korvemaker wonders how to best prepare for the coming of Christ and what she is called to do in the face of the refugee crisis.
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First the Fast, Then the Feast: Reflection for the Second Sunday of Advent
Marcellino D’Ambrosio offers a reflection for the Second Sunday of Advent. A change of mind must lead to a change of life.
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Waiting During Advent
Susan Anderson explores Advent as a season of waiting and preparing for the best gift of all.
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A New Beginning
As the Church begins a new year, we too can begin afresh! Mary Lou Rosien offers simple ways to get a new start this Advent.
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Finding Christmas in the Nativity - It's All in the Journey
What was it like to really be there? Nancy Fister offers the Advent Journey through masterpiece artwork complimenting the Biblical narrative of Christ’s birth.