Welcome to Advent Resources for your Advent planning needs.
- Forward Movement’s AdventWord (English and Spanish) plus Advent Calendar for Children and Families
- 2025 Advent Resources from the Episcopal Church
- The Episcopal Church’s Journeying the Way of Love Advent Curriculum (in English, Spanish, and French)
- Preparing to Become the Beloved Community – Advent (in English, Spanish, and French)
- Living Compass’s free Advent material in PDF format (English and Spanish).
- Resources for Children from Cokesbury
A Light Upon My Path
This Advent and Christmas, journey closer to Jesus, the light that shines in the darkness, illuminating hearts and guiding souls. A Light Upon My Path offers daily reflections, prayers, and scripture readings by contemporary spiritual leaders.
The meditations explore the light and hope of Christ in a weary world. Inspired by the readings from the Daily Office and or the Revised Common Lectionary, each day’s devotion invites you to embrace the wonder of his birth and the promise it holds for your life.
Advent and Christmas
The inspiring words of Henri J. M. Nouwen guide the faithful on a spiritual journey through the Advent and Christmas season in this book of waiting, hope, anticipation, and celebration. Each day of the Advent season (28 in all, to accommodate the varying number of days in the season) and each day of Christmas (12 in all, ending with Jesus’ baptism in the Jordan by John the Baptist) contain a pertinent excerpt from the writings of Father Nouwen, a related quotation from Scripture, a prayer for the day, and a suggested activity that offers a concrete response to mark the season.
Advent and Christmas Wisdom is indeed an easy-to-use, daily program to celebrate the momentous arrival of the Christ Child and the joyous news of our salvation. It is also an ideal book for the individual seeking active participation in the season and a renewal of faith for the start of the liturgical year.
Light of the World
In Light of the World: A Beginner’s Guide to Advent, author, professor, and biblical scholar Amy-Jill Levine explores the biblical texts surrounding the story of the birth of Jesus. Join her as she traces the Christmas narrative through the stories of Zechariah and Elizabeth, Mary, the journey to Bethlehem, and the visit from the Magi. These stories open conversations around connections of the Gospel stories to the Old Testament, the role of women in first-century Jewish culture, the importance of Mary’s visitation and the revolutionary implications of Mary’s Magnificat, the census and the stable, and the star of Bethlehem and the flight to Egypt.
Voices of Advent
In Voices of Advent, Matthew L. Skinner leads readers through biblical texts and explores how they shape our lives and Christmas celebrations. We listen as Jesus promises to return to us in the future, to John the Baptist as he prepares the way for the Messiah, to the faithful people and poets who anticipate the magnificence of Jesus’s birth, and to the angels and visionaries who praise God when Christmas dawns. Listen carefully to the Bible’s various perspectives that shape our preparations for Christmas; you’ll hear hope in all of them. Voices of Advent helps readers experience Advent not only as the start of the Christian Church Year, but also as the powerful overture that sets the tone for the incredible story of Jesus.
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