Watch for the Light - Readings
for Advent and Christmas
December 1, 2024
“The eternal birth is now born in time, in human nature. Saint Augustine says this birth is always happening. But if it does not happen in me, what does it profit me?” (MeisterEckhart)
December 2, 2024
“Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise. Every year we roll up all our needs and yearnings and faithful expectation into one word: ‘Come!’” (Karl Rahner)
December 3, 2024
“But he (sic) that dwells in the light…dwells in that which never dies.” (Isaac Pennington)
December 4, 2024
“I walk out onto the deck of my cottage, looking up at the great river of the Milky Way flowing across the sky. Evening. Evening of this day. Evening of my own life. I stand on the deck of my cottage, looking at the sky full of God’s children, and know that I am one of them.” (Madeleine L’Engle)
December 5, 2024
“Condemned as a traitor for his opposition to Hitler, Father Alfred Delp, a Jesuit priest, wrote this piece in a Nazi prison shortly before he was hanged in 1945.” The Shaking Reality of Advent: “There is perhaps nothing we modern people need more than to be genuinely shaken up.”
December 6, 2024
“To Be Virgin” is to create space. It is to be like Mary. “What if, instead of doing something, we were to be something special? Be a womb. Be a dwelling for God. Be surprised. Mary offered only space, love, belief.” Loretta Ross-Gotta
December 7, 2024
“We live now, in the United States, in a culture so
profoundly pagan that Advent is no longer really noticed, much less observed.
Churches have become so utterly securalized that they no longer remember the
topic of Advent. What is the subject of Advent?” William Stringfellow
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