Advent Meditations

• Advent Family Prayer

• Advent Mealtime Prayers

• Prayers for Lighting the Advent Wreath Candles

• The Annunciation

Advent Weekly Video Reflections

Enjoy these video reflections to help you in your spiritual journey.

• Week One: Love Is Coming by Joe Paprocki
• Week Two:Waiting by Tim Muldoon
• Week Three:How Does Hope Shape Us? by Vinita Hampton Wright
• Week Four:Mary Receiving Jesus into Her Arms by Becky Eldredge

Journeying with the Magi

Popular prayer sites Sacred Space and Pray as You Go collaborate to offer this online retreat that reflects upon the Christmas story of the Magi (or Wise Men) from St. Matthew’s Gospel.

Advent Podcasts

The New England Jesuits offer meditations and reflections intersecting themes of Advent and Ignatian spirituality. The topics are: Anticipating Joy, Using the Examen During Advent, Imaginative Prayer, and Advent Gifts and Graces.

Praying Advent

Creighton University’s Online Ministries offers a selection of materials to help people prayerfully enter into Advent, from short prayers to longer reflections and audio retreats.

Advent Examen

By Laurie Marshanke
Marshanke invites seasonal reflection through the lens of the Examen.

Contemplation on the Incarnation Part One: The Trinity Looks Down from Heaven

By Daniel Ruff, SJ
The Contemplation on the Incarnation begins with imagining the Trinity looking down from heaven and responding with the Incarnation. Ruff introduces readers to this aspect of the Spiritual Exercises.

Contemplation on the Incarnation Part Two: Mary’s Human Response

By Daniel Ruff, SJ

The second part of the Contemplation on the Incarnation explores the Annunciation and Mary’s response.

Mary at Her Annunciation as a Model for Growing in the Virtue of Faith

By Gerald M. Fagin, SJ
In contemplating the Annunciation, we see Mary as a model of faith and are called to trust and openness ourselves.

Inspiration During Advent

• Advent Amid the Gift Wrap

• Advent Anticipation

• A Habit of Hope

• Celebrating Advent with Your Family

• Don’t Forget the Advent Saints!

• Enjoy Advent!

• Four Gifts for You This Advent

• Praying with Mary

• Receiving Advent

• Reflection for Week 1: “Honey, we’re pregnant!”

• Reflection for Week 2: Out in the Wilderness

• Reflection for Week 3: Mary’s Impossible Dream

• Reflection for Week 4: Repentance and Renewal

• Saying Yes to God: Joseph’s Yes

• Saying Yes to God: Mary’s Yes

• Saying Yes to God: Our Yes

• The God of the Here-and-Now

• Underground Movements

• Water and Advent