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Advent Bulletin Inserts
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2000-01-01)
Text from the first half of "Advent Bulletin Inserts"|Beginning Advent:|What are the key first steps to enter into Advent? We can all slow down. We can all breathe more deeply. We can all begin to trust that this will be ...
Experiencing Advent Deeply for Busy People
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2000-01-01)
Text from the first half of "Experiencing Advent Deeply for Busy People"|The challenge of entering Advent, or of entering into any religious experience, these days is that we are often very busy. We may feel bad that we ...
Letting Christmas Become a Season
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2000-01-01)
Text from the first five paragraphs of "Letting Christmas Become a Season"|When they had fulfilled all the prescriptions of the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth. The child grew and ...
Becoming John the Baptist
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2000-01-01)
Text from the first half of "Becoming John the Baptist"|Advent can take us way beyond preparing for Christmas. It certainly does prepare us to be open to the gifts that come with this season. It is a season of hope and ...
A Family Christmas for Newlyweds and Beyond
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2000-01-01)
Text from the first half of "A Family Christmas Guide for Newlyweds - and Beyond"|A young bride looked distraught. "It's not fair," she said. I want to be with my family for Christmas Eve and his father is pushing us to ...
As Advent Begins
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2000-01-01)
Many of us are in an ideal place to begin Advent, but we don't know it. It can be tempting to think that, because we are struggling these days, we can't enter into Advent without a big change in our mood or without distancing ...
Christmas Alone
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2000-01-01)
Text from the first five paragraphs of "Celebrating Christmas Alone"|And Mary kept all these things, reflecting on them in her heart. - Luke 2|Many of us celebrate Christmas alone. This may be the first time for us, or an ...
Christmas Prayers
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2000-01-01)
In every part of our Christmas days, joyful or otherwise, we can turn to God in prayer. These are suggested prayers for a variety of situations. Use them or create prayers from your own heart to meet your own needs.|Prayer ...
Celebrating Christmas
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2000-01-01)
Text from the first three paragraphs of "Celebrating Christmas"|Entering into and Celebrating the CHRISTMAS SEASON|Christmas is not the end of Advent. It is a real season of the Church year. We usually miss it because the ...
Guide to Daily Advent Prayer
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2000-01-01)
Text from the first half of "Guide to Daily Prayer"|We recommend using these Daily Prayer pages, either at night or in the morning. If we use them at night, we would use the prayer for the upcoming day. If we use them ...