Online Advent Resources
This year's self-guided Advent retreat from Sacred Space, the global online prayer site, is "We Need Never Walk Alone". These are dark times in our world. In a time of enormous change, a connectedness with a shared past can be enormously helpful in helping maintain our stability.
The journey we make from birth to death and rebirth has been made over and over again for countless millennia. Nobody can make it for us, even though countless people have made it before us. While nobody else can make the journey for us, we do not need to walk alone. In any journey, it helps to have a guide.
The Bible provides us with a large and very mixed company of those who made the salvation journey before us – including Abraham, Moses, Jonah, Jacob, Nicodemus, King David, Job, Elijah, Lot’s wife, Mary Magdalene, the unknown woman who anointed the feet of Jesus. More recent guides include Mesiter Eckhart, Teresa of Ávila, St John of the Cross, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.
What all their journeys have in common is that they each feature a crisis, in the original meaning of the Greek word, “turning point”- something to be welcomed rather than feared, something that the philosopher Ivan Illich described as “the marvellous moment when people become aware of their self-imposed cages, and of the possibility of a different life.”
Click on the image to access the retreat, which runs from 1st Decemeber through Christmas Eve.
The journey we make from birth to death and rebirth has been made over and over again for countless millennia. Nobody can make it for us, even though countless people have made it before us. While nobody else can make the journey for us, we do not need to walk alone. In any journey, it helps to have a guide.
The Bible provides us with a large and very mixed company of those who made the salvation journey before us – including Abraham, Moses, Jonah, Jacob, Nicodemus, King David, Job, Elijah, Lot’s wife, Mary Magdalene, the unknown woman who anointed the feet of Jesus. More recent guides include Mesiter Eckhart, Teresa of Ávila, St John of the Cross, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.
What all their journeys have in common is that they each feature a crisis, in the original meaning of the Greek word, “turning point”- something to be welcomed rather than feared, something that the philosopher Ivan Illich described as “the marvellous moment when people become aware of their self-imposed cages, and of the possibility of a different life.”
Click on the image to access the retreat, which runs from 1st Decemeber through Christmas Eve.
A host of online resources for Advent from the excellent Faith and Worship website. These inlcude a wide range of prayer resources, homily resources, inspiring quotations and much more.
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The Episcopal Church website offers a very wide range of online resources for Advent. Some of these are especially suitable for parishes.
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This digital Advent calendar offers a distinctive and spiritually enriching way to journey through this holy season. Based on the Jubilee Year’s theme of "Hope", the 2024 calendar offers prayers and resources designed to guide individuals, families and faith communities to reflect on the hope that Christ brings to the world, while also preparing for the upcoming Holy Jubilee Year in 2025.
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