We’ve gathered together some of our favourite Advent and Christmas Resources, including the Jesse Tree which can be enjoyed by all ages, as well as lots of devotional material.
The Jesse Tree
Devotional
Day by Day through Advent
The Joy of Haste and Waiting: Rosary Reflections
The pressures of life and work, the business of rushing around, immersed as we are in a world which demands things immediately, can provide much stress and strain and unrealistic expectations. Likewise, we can often find it difficult to be still at times, and we can settle uneasily with a sense of guilt for apparently doing nothing.
The five Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary have much to speak into our need for both haste and waiting. This morning’s devotions are divided into half hour sessions, each offering a different way to pray, and reflecting on one of the Joyful Mysteries – from the Angel’s message to Mary in her backwater home to her journey into the hill country, from the birth of Jesus, placed in a borrowed crib, to the big city delights of the Temple, where we meet Jesus as a six week old baby and then as a twelve year old child – on the cusp of his teenage years.
These reflections were prepared for a morning’s October Devotions at ST MARYS CF10. Reproduced here, each Joyful Mystery of the Rosary begins with the Scriptural basis for our meditation, and is accompanied by an image from St Mary’s Church. You’ll also find the prayers of the rosary at the end of the reflections
My Light and My Help
Saints in Waiting
Ancient Words
A Safe Lodging
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