Our Mission
We are a center for experiential education, rooted in the Gospels, encouraging the transformation of human consciousness through contemplation, and equipping people to be instruments of peaceful change in the world.
November 30, 2011
Purple by © Shirin McArthur
Advent
“Come, Lord Jesus,” the Advent prayer, means that all of Christian history has to live out of a kind of deliberate emptiness or chosen non-fulfillment. Perfect fullness is always to come, and we do not need to demand it now. This keeps the field of life wide open and especially open to grace and to a future created by God rather than us. This is what it means to be “awake,” as the gospel urges us (Matthew 24:42)!
We can also use other a words for Advent: aware, alive, attentive, alert, and awake are all appropriate! Advent is above all else a call to full consciousness and a forewarning about the high price of consciousness.
Adapted from Preparing for Christmas with Richard Rohr, pp. 4-5
Starter Prayer:
Come, Lord Jesus!
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