Don’t miss these local opportunities to prepare for the coming of Christ.
UPDATED: Guide to Advent services, programs, retreats and concerts
In Advent, we get ready ‘for whatever God wishes’ for us, says cardinal
“Advent reminds us that a baby, like the little ones that grace your life, a Little One was born for us in time and that event was the real intergalactic moment that transformed human history.”
Bishop Kettler: What are we waiting for?
The Advent season is a gift — one that helps us to focus less on ourselves and more clearly and intentionally on the One who is coming.
Katie Prejean McGrady: This Advent, focus on presence not presents
“Rushing to have and do all the things and readying stuff to look at and cling to does nothing to help us let Christ rush into our lives and ready our hearts for the kingdom of heaven.”
Kathleen Norris: Benedictine values during Advent
“Sometimes in this busy world, we need some help to put ourselves in a waiting frame of mind. Brew a cup of tea, settle into a comfortable chair and let a good spiritual writer help you put aside the busyness of this season.”
Online Advent series will explore ‘culture of encounter’
Through sharing the Catholic faith, exploring culture and praying with Scripture, those who attend this Zoom discussion group will foster cultural humility to engage with differences as disciples of Christ.
Advent Week 4: Come Lord Jesus! From the Annunciation to Christmas
“Pondering the Gospel scene of the Annunciation prepares us to welcome the newborn Jesus through the eyes of the graced woman who prepared most intimately for our Lord’s birth, his mother Mary.”
Advent Week 4: Always with us
“Wow are we to be, as St. John Paul II says in one of his poems, ‘more with Him, / more with Him, not merely with oneself’? The answer is to imitate Christ, to imitate Mary — to make of ourselves a gift.”