Advent for the 2025 Church Liturgical Year
begins with the First Sunday of Advent: December 1st, 2024
Sundays: Year C. Weekdays: Year I

Every Day/Week by Week

Daily Advent Prayers:
Each week of Advent have Daily Prayers that are designed to be used by individuals or families or groups.
Read this Guide to Daily Advent Prayer.

First Week
December 1-7

Second Week
December 8-14

Third Week
December 15-21

Fourth Week - coming soon
December 22-24

Celebrating Christmas - coming soon
December 25, 2024 - January 5/6, 202

For Parish Bulletins:
- Announcing this Resource
- Free Bulletin Inserts

Reflecting on the O Antiphons

When time permits only one, brief prayer a day

Advent Audios:
An Advent Parish Mission in Two Nights
Andy Alexander, SJ & Maureen McCann Waldron: Listen at your computer or download to listen on the go. A two night reflection on Advent by the Online Ministries team.

Brief Audio Reflections for Advent
Andy Alexander, SJ & Maureen McCann Waldron

Pre-Praying with Advent
Fr. Larry Gillick, S.J. & Fr. Greg Carlson, S.J.

Fr. Larry Gillick, S.J. - A 2013 Advent Retreat

Fr. Larry Gillick, S.J. - A 2012 Advent Retreat

Fr. Larry Gillick, S.J. - A 2005 Advent Retreat

Advent Videos:

Advent Thoughts:
Larry Gillick, SJ: a 2 min video

Reflecting on Advent:
a video by Jim Clifton, SJ

Advent and Mercy: A Reflection on Mercy:
A video talk by Amy Hoover

A Video of a talk by Maureen Waldron:
The Season of Waiting - Our God Who Is Waiting for us

These reflections are for adults.

They are prepared, however, to draw children in.  They are resources to help us adults with the un-named anticipation or longing in our hearts.  They allow us to enter into the experience of our darkness and therefore to give glory to God for the Light.

An Advent Day of Recollection:
Two presentations on
"Hope: A Shard of Light in Our Shadows"
John Schlegel, S.J. - Dec., 2014

Advent - The Always New: A reflection by Luis Rodriguez, S.J. on the Incarnation, the Gestation and Nativity of Jesus - 2021

Praying Advent with Pope Francis'
Exhortation, "The Joy of the Gospel."

Part I: A Joy Ever New, A Joy Which is Shared

Part II: The Delightful and Comforting Joy of Evangelizing

Part III: The New Evangelization for the Transmission of the Faith

Part IV: Chapter One:
The Church's Missionary Transformation
Part One: A Church Which Goes Forth

The Spirituality of Pope Francis
A parish retreat in Audio and Video formats with Andy Alexander, S.J. and Maureen Waldron

Site Index
Visit the Site Index frequently,
to see all the resources for Advent and Christmas, including those that are added throughout Advent.

Permission to Copy
Resources from this Site

"Holidays are especially hard for people who are sick, not only because of the isolation caused by their illness, but their inability to get around often means they can’t participate in the ways they used to.   Gift-giving occasions can be especially challenging for those who are hospitalized or housebound.  We could help out by getting a gift list from someone unable to shop and offer to buy and wrap their gifts for them."   

From "Visit the Sick" in the Rediscovering the Corporal Works of Mercy page.