Advent is the period of four Sundays and weeks before Christmas. Advent means "Coming" in Latin. This is the coming of Jesus into the world. We as Catholics use the four Sundays and weeks of Advent to prepare and remember the real meaning of Christmas.
"My brother, Jesus. It happens every year. I think that this will be the year that I have a reflective Advent. I look forward to Sunday and this new season, Jesus. But all around me are the signs rushing me to Christmas and some kind of celebration that equates spending with love.
I need your help. I want to slow my world down. This year, more than ever, I need Advent, these weeks of reflection and longing for hope in the darkness.
Jesus, this year, help me to have that longing. Help me to feel it in my heart and be aware of the hunger and thirst in my own soul. Deep down, I know there is something missing in my life, but I can’t quite reach for it. I can’t get what is missing.
I know it is about you, Jesus. You are not missing from my life, but I might be missing the awareness of all of the places you are present there.
Be with me, my dear friend. Guide me in these weeks to what you want to show me this Advent. Help me to be vulnerable enough to ask you to lead me to the place of my own weakness, the very place where I will find you the most deeply embedded in my heart, loving me without limits."
We invite you to join us this Advent with daily reflections and action steps surrounding care for our common home and for all of creation with inspiration taken from
Laudato Si
.
Click here
to access the four weeks of daily reflections as well as an Advent Action Step Calendar.
