Advent Prayerful Resources
Advent begins Sunday, December 1. It is the time of waiting in hope for our Incarnate God. The following are some ways to seek holiness in the often-busy days before Christmas.
- IgnatianSpirituality.com offers Advent Resources, which includes Arts & Faith, Advent Weekly Video Reflections, and links to podcasts and articles.
- Would you like an Advent Calendar? Loyola Press offers an online Advent Calendar for adults.
- The Ignatian Examen is a prayer of gratitude and reflection that St. Ignatius urged his followers to pray each day. Here is an Examen for Advent.
- Would you like to make an online Ignatian Retreat? The Ignatian Spirituality Center at St. Thomas More in St. Paul, MN is offering online Ignatian Advent Retreat 2024.
- Perhaps you would like to receive an email each day with a reflection? Sacred Adventinvites you to slow down for a moment of reflection inspired by the Advent retreat in Sacred Space: Retreats & Reflections for Daily Lifeby the Irish Jesuits.
- Maybe you would like the carolers to come to your inbox? Jesuit Media Lab is offering Waiting and Wassailing: Daily Advent Meditations on Story and Song.
- God In All Things is offering the online program Discerning Advent.
- Ignatian Resources, a project of God In All Things, is offering Imagine Advent, which invites you to go deep with traditional Advent Gospel readings.
- Having trouble focusing on Advent? Here is a reflection Taking Advent Seriously.
- Would you like a simpler Christmas? Ignatian Solidarity Network is offering the Advent Simplicity Challenge.
- IVC Virtual Region is offering an online Advent Morning of Reflection on December 7, Challenge of Christmas: Unwrapping Our Spiritual Gifts.
- The Well Spirituality Center is offering an online Advent Reflection on December 7, Mary, Elizabeth, and Anna: Prophets of Hope for a Hurting World.
- The Office of Ignatian Spirituality will be offering weekly audio reflections, Waiting in Hope.
- Creighton University Online Ministries is offering Praying Advent.
“You keep us waiting. You, the God of all time, Want us to wait. For the right time in which to discover Who we are, where we are to go, Who will be with us, and what we must do.
So thank you … for the waiting time.” – Iona Community
A blessed Advent to all.