For those of you who missed it live, the recording of my Advent Webinar is now available for your convenience! You can watch this on your own or get together with a group of catechists/DREs for viewing. Enjoy!
Advent
An Advent Retreat!
Here’s another opportunity for you to find enrichment during this wonderful Advent season. Loyola Press is hosting an Advent retreat on the Days of Deepening Frienship Web site. The retreat features a new Advent article each week written by some pretty talented authors! November 30: James Martin, SJ, shares tips on going from the secular to the spiritual in our Christmas preparations and celebrations. December 7: Liz Kelly will share some insight on Advent rituals […]
Junior High
Marian Art, Advent, and Learning Stations
With both the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of Mary (a holy day of obligation) and the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe in December, and the readings in the second half of Advent telling Mary’s story in the days before Jesus’ birth, this is the perfect time to teach the children in our classes about Mary. I realized in my planning my Advent arc of activities this year that the Finding God art prints […]
Advent
Show Me a Day When the World Wasn’t New
I received an e-mail from a co-worker announcing that another co-worker had given birth to a healthy beautiful baby boy. The subject line of the message was, “Show me a day when the world wasn’t new.” This caught my attention. The quote is attributed to Sr. Barbara Hance (1928–1993), and I think it’s a wonderful Advent thought. In fact, this quote and the e-mail about the newborn baby made me think of my pastor’s homily this […]
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