Expectant: Advent Meditations

by Anne E. Kitch

Overview

Meditations for each day of Advent

We don't like to wait, but the season of Advent is all about waiting--a time of expectation, when Christians have traditionally devoted themselves to practices of prayer and study. This book offers a short meditation for each of the thirty days of the season, from the First Sun-day of Advent through Christmas Day. In the spirit of expectancy, each meditation focuses on seeking and seeing God in the everyday of our ordinary lives, based on a psalm that corresponds to the daily office for the season of Advent.
Expectant: Advent Meditations is the perfect seasonal practice companion for spiritual seekers as well as devoted Christians, and ideal for church groups and congregations wishing to hand out a fresh and contemporary Advent resource to members.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781640651470
Publisher:	Church Publishing
Publication date:	06/17/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	64
File size:	181 KB

About the Author

Anne E. Kitch is a priest, educator, writer, and speaker whose work is grounded in the conviction that God's grace arrives in the everyday. Kitch currently serves as the rector of St. Luke’s Church in Phillipsburg, New Jersey. The author of The Anglican Family Prayer Book,Taking the Plunge: Baptism and Parenting, Preparing for Baptism in the Episcopal Church, and the popular What We Do in Church series for children. She lives in Phillipsburg, New Jersey.

Table of Contents

"Anne Kitch hears the still small voice beneath the roar of everyday life. In Expectant, a quiet, poetic, meditative, and accessible book, she tells you what she has heard, and shows you, by example, how to listen." ––Sean Rowe, eighth bishop of the Diocese of Northwest Pennsylvania "These small bite-size nuggets of spiritual wisdom allow us to comprehend what the mature life of faith lived out over a lifetime has to offer us. Aptly written for the frenetic time restraints of the Advent season, this book provides a simple way for busy Christians to stay focused on the spiritual dimensions of the four weeks before Christmas." ––Sylvia Sweeney, dean and president of Bloy House, The Episcopal School at Claremont "Like Anne Kitch, I love Advent and I love the psalms. Walking with her and the psalmist in this season of holy expectation offers us a luminous, numinous experience as we wait in vigilant hope for the coming of Jesus." ––Peter M. Wallace, producer and host of "Day1" and author of Getting to Know Jesus (Again): Meditations for Lent "Weeks that begin with a Sunday prayer from the communal liturgies of the faithful, a daily verse from the intensely intimate utterances of the biblical psalmist, and the homely experiences of common life: From these, Anne Kitch crafts an Advent calendar to enlighten predawn darkness, carry through the day, and ponder well into the winter night." ––Sam Portaro, former Episcopal Chaplain to the University of Chicago and Director of Brent House, author of Sense and Sensibility: A Lenten Exploration "This wonderful book of meditations can be a great resource for preparing our hearts and minds as we await the coming of the Christ child during the season of Advent. Each daily meditation, drawn from the author's personal experience of waiting and expectation, invites us to pay attention to our own encounters with the living Lord." ––Phoebe A. Roaf, fourth bishop of the Diocese of West Tennessee

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"The meditations are accessible in their simplicity and beauty, in which the extraordinary emerges in the ordinary, the holy emerges in the mundane, in which our Lord, as always promised, comes. Kitch’s gentle meditations are wonderfully inviting, especially perhaps for those who, at times, feel overwhelmed by the greatness of God or who struggle to find the presence of God, inviting us into relationship."
—Rev. Dominique Peridans, rector of the Church of the Ascension & Saint Agnes, Washington, DC.

Editorial Reviews

"The meditations are accessible in their simplicity and beauty, in which the extraordinary emerges in the ordinary, the holy emerges in the mundane, in which our Lord, as always promised, comes. Kitch’s gentle meditations are wonderfully inviting, especially perhaps for those who, at times, feel overwhelmed by the greatness of God or who struggle to find the presence of God, inviting us into relationship."
—Rev. Dominique Peridans, rector of the Church of the Ascension Saint Agnes, Washington, DC.

From the Publisher