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Start Advent and Christmas off right with the latest booklet in the best-selling Daybreaks series. It will help you carve out a place of respite and peace amid the commercialism and hustle and bustle of the season!

A respected biblical scholar, Mary Katharine Deeley turns her talents to providing you with concise, easy-to-read inspiration for this holy time. She uses scripture selections and reflections to “prepare the way of the Lord” throughout Advent and Christmas in a way that’s guaranteed to enhance your faith.

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The strong opening chords of “O Come, O Come Emmanuel” announce the season of Advent. From the Latin words venio, meaning “come,” and ad, meaning “to,” Advent means “coming to.” The curious energy of Advent is the waiting for something that has already happened, the looking for something that is already here. It is both right now and not yet. Christians sing “O Come, O Come Emmanuel,” yet Emmanuel means “God is with us.”



Author Pat Livingston believes the best preparation for this celebration of the coming of our Lord at Christmas is to deepen awareness of God’s presence every day, to pause in the “right now” so we can see evidence of what is already here and what is yet to come. The passages found in Daybreaks act as doorways to the Emmanuel reality and help readers notice doors opening of their own. Everyday occurrences are transformed into moments of prayer and meditation.

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<P>Advent calls us to focus on preparation. Being prepared for the birth of Jesus Christ is something we can only better with each Advent and Christmas season. Daybreaks by Fr. Jim Torrens, SJ offers daily meditations to deepen your connection to God and help you prepare for the celebration of Christ's birth. In a season where it is easy to lose sight on what's important, Fr. Torrens provides insight and reflection to keep you focused on the arrival of our Savior.
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“For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son to us,” John 3:16. Drawing from Scripture, literature, and personal experience, Fr. Rolheiser shows God’s love in such abundance that our souls yearn for that love. God lies inside us as an invitation that fully respects our freedom, never overpowers us, but also never goes away. The invitation lies there precisely like a baby lying helpless in the straw, gently beckoning us, but helpless in itself to make us pick it up. For each day of Advent through the Octave of Christmas, Advent Daybreaks provides an opportunity for prayer and reflection on the coming of the messiah, the word made flesh.

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Advent is a season of hopeful waiting for the light of Christ to appear at dawn after a long, cold night. It is a time of hopeful waiting as we ponder the mystery of the Incarnation, the unique and salvific way that God became with us—Emmanuel. It is a time of preparation, of renewal, of celebration that nothing can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus.
This Advent and Christmas season, author Daniel P. Horan, OFM, uses the theme of “Already, Not Yet” to show you that God in Christ Jesus is always with you. For each day through the Octave of Christmas, Father Dan selects a short Scripture passage—one that is already known but not yet fully understood—and uses it as a starting point for reflecting on how our faith is already handed on to us, but not yet perfectly lived.
Advent Daybreaks provides an opportunity for prayer and reflection on the coming of our Savior, whose love, mercy, forgiveness, and redemption has already been given, but has not yet been fully realized in our lives.