WELCOME!
This Advent we encourage you to look beyond the busy schedules and to-do list. There IS so much going on in Advent—these four weeks are a time of preparation for an amazing thing...the God of space & time entered our imperfect world and brought redemption for all humankind.
We are focusing on “The Life Within You”. A baby is conceived and, regardless of the awareness of the mother or father, the baby grows and develops.
The same is so often true in our interior life at the beginning of our journey...we may not be aware of Jesus in our lives, yet He is there, waiting for us to know Him.
This Advent we will journey with a child in the womb, paralleled to our own interior journey of finding God in our everyday lives. Both the pregnancy Mary experienced with Jesus and our call to lead a more contemplative life, can help us focus our hearts & minds away from the many different external and internal distractions of the season and instead, in a real & authentic way, enter into the silence, beauty, and joy of the moment Christ entered into the world.
The contemplative life is “nothing else than a close sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with him who we know loves us.”
~St. Teresa of Avila
Each day has its own focus in the journal, with various prayer techniques, reflections, saint stories, and more. We also have an online blog that will further flesh out what is offered in the booklet for each day of Advent.
We invite you to look within your heart and life to find the heart that beats within you, Jesus, the One who was, who is, and who will be forever!