The season of Advent begins on Sunday, November 30. It is the time of waiting in hope for our Incarnate God. The following are prayerful resources to seek holiness in the often-busy days that lead up to 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 offer 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.
- Perhaps you would like to receive an email each day with a reflection? The Gifts of Advent invites you to slow down for a moment of reflection inspired by The True Gifts of Christmasby Megan Alexander.
- Jesuit Media Lab is offering Advent Zoom Theatre Retreat of A Christmas Carol on December 6.
- Would you like to host a read-along of A Christmas Carol? Jesuit Media Lab published a read-along adaptation and offers six tips for hosting your own communal reading party.
- God In All Things is offering the online program Discerning Advent.
- 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.
- Jesuitresource.org offers quotes, prayers and online resources.
- The Office of Ignatian Spirituality will be offering God With Us, weekly audio reflections based upon the Sunday readings.
- Creighton University Online Ministries is offering Praying Advent.
- You are invited to an Advent Morning of Reflection with Fr. Andy Alexander, SJ on Saturday, December 6, from 10:00 – 11:15 (Central Time) offered by the IVC Virtual Region. Please click here to register.
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.
