Download or read book Preparing for Christmas with Richard Rohr written by Richard Rohr and published by Franciscan Media. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Advent is not about a sentimental waiting for the Baby Jesus," Richard Rohr asserts. Advent is a time to focus our expectations and anticipation on "the adult Christ, the Cosmic Christ," who challenges us to empty ourselves, to lose ourselves, to surrender. Drawing on selections from his best-selling inspirational lecture on CD, Preparing for Christmas With Richard Rohr, this booklet provides daily reflections and prayers for the Advent season, along with each day's Scripture readings and questions for reflection. A wonderful resource for personal prayer, this attractive, 80-page, pocket-sized booklet is a perfect companion for your Advent preparation.
Download or read book Let Every Heart Prepare written by Barbara Cawthorne Crafton and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 1998-10 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on beautiful seasonal hymns, Crafton's daily meditations on faith, prayer, forgiveness, and healing for Advent and Christmas make an excellent companion for the season. For centuries the words and poetry of our hymns have spoken deeply to us. Many people, in fact, find that what is heard in poetry and music sinks deeper into the soul than does ordinary prose. And so it is to the beautiful seasonal hymns that Barbara Cawthorne Crafton turns for inspiration for daily meditations during the great devotional seasons of the church year: Advent/Christmas.
Download or read book Biblical Meditations for Advent and the Christmas Season written by Carroll Stuhlmueller and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Father Stuhlmueller blends solid Scripture study with the fruits of his own prayer experience. For those who like to pray and reflect in harmony with the seasons of the Church year, this book will find a welcome home with Father's earlier books.
Download or read book Rejoice Advent Meditations with Mary Journal written by Mark Toups and published by . This book was released on 2018-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Advent and Christmas written by Katie Prejean McGrady and published by Ave Maria Press. This book was released on 2020-08-21 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the success of their bestselling devotional Lent: One Day at a Time for Catholic Teens, youth ministry experts Katie Prejean McGrady and Tommy McGrady offer devotions for Advent and Christmas that help teens make sense of the things that matter most in their lives such as relationships, their future, and coping with stress. Realistic and easy to use, each daily devotion starts with a brief Bible quote that connects with a topic important to teens such as insecurity, pressure, trust, fitting in, finding hope, and choosing joy. A brief reflection helps teens consider the day’s topic through their faith. The McGradys sometimes offer comfort, hope, or reasons for joy in these reflections, while on other days they issue a challenge or two. Unlike many other seasonal prayer books, each day offers exercises and activities such as naming areas of teen’s lives where they want to be more hopeful or to trust God more. The result is a closer relationship with God. Each single-page, weekday devotion can be as brief as five minutes or as long as thirty if a teen chooses to do a bit extra with a feature called “Feel Ambitious?” This activity invites them to read, reflect, and respond to a longer scripture passage that connects to the day’s theme. Saturdays and Sundays offer additional challenges to reflect on the previous week and to look ahead to the next.
Download or read book Meditations for Advent written by Jacques Bénigne Bossuet and published by Sophia Institute Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carefully selected to lift your soul to God in those hectic days that stretch from Thanksgiving to Christmas, these forty daily meditations will keep you mindful of the real meaning of Christmas while affording you an admirable distillation of the doctrines and piety of our Holy Catholic Church.
Download or read book Our December Hearts written by Anne McConney and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 1999-09 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to be human in this season of waiting? And what does it mean to believe that God became human? In language drenched in poetry, this collection of meditations for Advent and Christmas explores what it means to gaze into the mystery that is Incarnation.
Download or read book Preparing for Jesus written by Walter Wangerin, Jr. and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 1999 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Preparing for Jesus, best-selling author and master storyteller Walter Wangerin Jr. recreates verbal images of the events surrounding the Advent of Christ, offering a devotional journey into the heart of the Christmas season. Through rich detail and vivid images, these moving meditations make Christ's birth both intimate and immediate, allowing us to see Christmas from its original happening to its perennial recurrence in our hearts. Preparing for Jesus is sure to be a seasonal classic, treasured year after year.
Download or read book Advent and Christmas Meditations written by Father T. Ronald Haney and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2007-10-30 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christmas, with its sparkling decorations and gaily wrapped gifts, is the most celebrated holyday in many people’s lives. Christmas is even a holiday so brightly prominent is it in our culture. Christmas shines like the Bethlehem Star into the dark shadows of our workaday world. Christmas is the peaceful pause in the noisy hustle and bustle of our daily work and relationships. Yet for many the grueling preoccupation in the preparations for Christmas is with the jingle-belled material things: shopping, decorations, gifts, exotic foods, visits, entertainment, etc. Sometimes many forget the fundamental spiritual meaning of Christmas. These daily meditations are geared to help you to become more exuberantly aware of the primary meaning of Christmas, namely, the love of God so boundless that God gave us his only divine son as a human babe, Jesus, to live among us, teach us with his stories, lay down his life for us and rise again on the third day. These daily meditations were written in the hope that you will be able to probe, with dynamic and contagious faith, the gospel stories to increase and deepen your spiritual development during the Advent and Christmas seasons.
Download or read book Meditations for Great Lent written by Vassilios Papavassiliou and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lenten Triodion exhorts us, "Let us observe a fast acceptable and pleasing to the Lord." Using hymns from the Triodion and the Scripture readings appointed for the season, Meditations for Great Lent shows us how to make our fast acceptable: to fast not only from food but from sin; to fast with love and humility, as a means to an end and not an end in itself. Keep this gem of a book with you to inspire you for the Fast and to dip into for encouragement as you pursue your Lenten journey.
Download or read book Meditations for Advent and Christmas written by and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, James G. Kirk provides meditations to help Christians celebrate Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany. After a synopsis of the recommended Bible passage, there is a reflection, written in understandable language with real-life examples, which provide insight and direction for making the day more meaningful. A closing prayer follows. Based on Scripture readings from the lectionary, these meditations can be read by individuals or used with a group.
Download or read book Rejoice Advent Meditations with the Holy Family Journal written by Fr Mark Toups and published by Ascension Press. This book was released on 2020-10-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Rejoice! journal is a prayer resource with daily meditations that will enrich your celebration of Advent. It invites you to experience the very first Advent with Joseph and Mary, as they await the birth of their son, the Savior of the world. Together with the guided meditations found on rejoiceprogram.com, this journal will help you to see the marriage of Mary and Joseph in a new light. You will ponder what was in their hearts and minds as they awaited the birth of Jesus-and you will be invited to reflect on and deepen your own relationships with others. Rejoice! will help you open your heart to the peace and joy of the Holy Family as you prepare for the coming of Jesus this Christmas. Book jacket.
Download or read book Preparing for Christmas written by Richard Rohr and published by Franciscan Media. This book was released on 2013-11-22 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advent is not about a sentimental waiting for the Baby Jesus --Richard Rohr Advent is a time to focus our expectation and anticipation on the adult Christ, the Cosmic Christ, who challenges us to empty ourselves, to lose ourselves, to surrender. Preparing for Christmas offers daily meditations, prayers, Scripture readings, and questions for reflection for each day of Advent.
Download or read book Behold He Comes written by Benedict J. Groeschel and published by Servant Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The coming of Jesus Christ is a central truth of the Christian faith. Against the backdrop of Scripture and the writings of the ancient fathers of the Church, for each day of the Advent and Christmas seasons, Fr. Benedict Groeschel's "Behold, He Comes" offers insightful reflections on Christ's coming--in history, in our personal lives, and at the end of time.
Download or read book Expectant written by Anne E. Kitch and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-06-17 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meditations for each day of Advent We don't like to wait, but the season of Advent is all about waiting--a time of expectation, when Christians have traditionally devoted themselves to practices of prayer and study. This book offers a short meditation for each of the thirty days of the season, from the First Sun-day of Advent through Christmas Day. In the spirit of expectancy, each meditation focuses on seeking and seeing God in the everyday of our ordinary lives, based on a psalm that corresponds to the daily office for the season of Advent. Expectant: Advent Meditations is the perfect seasonal practice companion for spiritual seekers as well as devoted Christians, and ideal for church groups and congregations wishing to hand out a fresh and contemporary Advent resource to members.
Download or read book A Child Is Born written by J. Barrie Shepherd and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book of inspiring prayers and meditations for the Advent and Christmas season. Daily prayers for morning and evening devotion are followed by a space in which the reader in encouraged to write his or her own prayers, meditations, reflections, and insights.
Download or read book Preparing for Jesus written by Walter Wangerin Jr. and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Preparing for Jesus, best-selling author and master storyteller Walter Wangerin Jr. recreates verbal images of the events surrounding the Advent of Christ, offering a devotional journey into the heart of the Christmas season. Through rich detail and vivid images, these moving meditations make Christ's birth both intimate and immediate, allowing us to see Christmas from its original happening to its perennial recurrence in our hearts. Preparing for Jesus is sure to be a seasonal classic, treasured year after year.
