Formation

Preparing the Way (Adult)

These daily meditations invite you into a more faith-filled observation of Advent and Christmas. Some devotions explore traditional Christian ways to make the seasons, from the Advent wreath to Christmas pageants, from favorite hymns to setting up the creche. But on other days, the reflections offer ideas about how to infuse a sense of the holy into popular traditions such as decorating the tree, sending Christmas cards, and exchanging gifts.

Let Every Heart Prepare (Adult)

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.

What We Do in Advent (Ages 4-7)

Fun-filled activity book for kids ages 4 to 7 shows how to make an Advent wreath, help Mary and Joseph find their way to Bethlehem, and count the gifts the Magi bring to the Christ Child. Filled with mazes, crossword puzzles, connect-the-dots, and word searches. A great way for kids and their parents to focus on the true meaning of the Advent and Christmas seasons. An invaluable resource for families and Christian formation teams alike.

Lugar en el mesón: Ideas para celebrar posadas

Las posadas son celebraciones de adviento en forma de procesión. En México y otros países es tradicional hacer posadas los nueve días antes de navidad. Las posadas son una representación del recorrido que María y José hicieron cuando buscaban un lugar donde Jesús naciera. Las posadas nos enseñan que cuando recibimos al pobre y al necesitado, estamos recibiendo a Jesús. (Ver Mateo 25:40). Esta guía breve, disponible en español y en inglés, da consejos prácticos para congregaciones que deseen celebrar uno o varios días de posadas. La guía incluye ideas para hacer participar al vecindario, a la gente angla, y a las niñas y niños. Incluye versiones en español e inglés de la canción de las posadas y partituras con la melodía y los acordes de guitarra. Una página de web, www.VenAdelante.org, acompaña el documento con recursos multimedia.

Living Well Through Advent 2025

Vivir un buen Adviento en el 2025

Printed and digital copies of this Advent devotional from Living Compass are available.

FREE PDF in English and Spanish.

Stations of the Nativity (Family and Multigenerational)

This devotional guide for the days from Advent to Candlemas builds on the popularity of the ancient Christian tradition of walking the Stations of the Cross. Readings and prayers will help individuals and groups walk the Stations of the Nativity, from the vision of Zecharias in the temple to the return of the Holy family to Galilee.

Show Me Your Ways, O Lord (Emerging Adults, Adults)

Bless your Advent journey with these inspiring daily devotions exploring the Sunday psalms of Advent. Join four women authors offering diverse perspectives on psalms of adoration, lament, repentance, and thanks.

This collection connects us to the eternal truths of the psalter by reflecting on the assigned Sunday psalms for Advent from all three liturgical years. Each daily devotion includes prompts for going deeper with personal reflection or faithful practices.

A Way to the Manger (Emerging Adults, Adults)

Explore Christ’s birth as recounted in the Gospel of Luke through the lens of the Way of Love and the seven practices of turn, learn, pray, worship, bless, go, and rest. With daily devotions of personal stories, modern examples, art, and invitations to prayer and journaling, the authors challenge you to discover and incorporate these practices into your own life. During Advent and Christmas, walk with the shepherds and the angels, Mary and Joseph, Elizabeth and Zechariah, and Anna and Simeon. All of their paths—as well as yours—lead to the same destination: the humble manger where Love was born.

Do Not Be Afraid (Emerging Adults, Adults)

These luminous meditations tell stories of God waiting with us when we’re in fear or distress; of coming – bidden or unbidden – to relieve our loneliness; of disconcerting us, desiring us and surprising us with joy… Most of all they remind us that Jesus Christ comes into the world as one long waited for; as the servant who waits on others; as the one on whom we are, adoringly, called to wait.

Covering 4 weeks, each meditation ends with a prayer and questions for reflection, which may be used by individuals or groups.

Wounded I Sing (Adults)

George Herbert is widely regarded as the greatest devotional poet the world has known. Here Richard Harries introduces the poet and reflects on 24 of his greatest poems, six for each of the four weeks of Advent, including “Redemption”, “The Country Parson” and “The Temple”.

Each week focuses on a different theme:

Week 1: Winning the Heart
Week 2: Held by Christ
Week 3: Welcome
Week 4: All Praise

After each poem Richard Harries reflects on the poet’s sense of the divine and draws out spiritual insights for the reader to think about as they prepare to celebrate Christ’s appearing.

Preparing Room (Adults)

Explore the biblical context for Advent in this series of contemplations.

The pieces of the beginning of the Christian story come together, not from one set of hands, but many. For instance, in the four Gospels, Mark makes no mention of the events leading up to and surrounding the birth of Jesus. John, for the most part, points back to Genesis. Most of the historical pieces come to us primarily from Matthew and Luke. The scriptures together are the key to telling the story of the season.

The Womb of Advent (Adults)

Along with scripture readings and prayers, this book offers four weeks of meditations that focus on the growth of Jesus in the womb of Mary.

Mark Bozzutti-Jones offers a unique perspective on the season of Advent. He provides four weeks of meditations that focus on the growth of Jesus in the womb of Mary as he approaches the day of his birth, learns his mother’s voice, responds to the presence of light and dark, and begins to position himself for birth.