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"Entering the night of peace," this year's Pax Christi USA Advent reflection booklet, is co-written by Cameron Bellm and Flora x. Tang. Their poetic and thought-provoking reflections will be a welcome part of your daily prayer life during the Advent season, and can lead to rich and meaningful sharing within your prayer community.
Excerpt from Sunday, November 30:
"Christ’s urgency is ... the opposite of the self-serving urgency that today’s 'grind culture' offers us. Rather, the urgency and hope of the Advent season is a call to pray for others and love our neighbors with great urgency in a time of great uncertainty in our world. We do not know when God’s second coming would be, our gospel reminds us. But even more immediately, we also do not know what will happen next in our families, in our country, or in our world. We do not when it would be too late for us to prevent yet another tragedy, war, authoritarian regime rise, or humanitarian crisis in the world. Amid these ongoing and impending crises in our world, Christ calls us during this season of Advent to love and to build peace with radical urgency, and to continue to stay awake and not look away from those who are suffering. ..."
Excerpt from Sunday, December 7:
"Advent is a beautiful time to remember that the angel Gabriel’s words to Mary are still true, thousands of years later: 'Nothing is impossible with God.' Trusting in Divine partnership, we must continue to lift our hands and lift our voices, speaking the same words of peace again and again, until they become part of the very fabric of our reality, ceaselessly calling us to treat the earth and one another as sacred and beloved. ..."
Cameron is a writer shaped by Ignatian spirituality and Catholic social teaching. She combines her love of language with a deeply-rooted spirituality to compose prayers, poems, essays, and devotionals linking our modern lives with our ancient faith. She is especially devoted to writing at the intersections of creativity, spirituality, mysticism and activism. Her work has been featured in America, National Catholic Reporter, Outreach, and Catholic Women Preach. She frequently writes about creativity and spirituality for Jesuit Media Lab and many other outlets. Her first book, The Sacrament of Paying Attention: How Writers, Artists, and Mystics Can Lead Us into Sacred Human Communion, will be published by Eerdmans in 2026. She lives in Seattle with her husband and two children. Find more at www.cameronbellm.com.
Flora, a member of the Pax Christi USA Young Adult Caucus, is a doctoral candidate in theology and peace studies at the University of Notre Dame, where she writes and researches about post-traumatic theology, queer theology, and decolonial Asian theology. She has previously worked as a hospital chaplain, a campus ministry fellow, and a service-learning program coordinator for college students. Her theology and preaching draw from her complex faith journey to and within Catholicism: from becoming Catholic at age 19 after living and serving with Catholic sisters, to deconstructing her faith while living in Palestine, to discovering her own queer Catholic expressions of faith. Flora is committed to reimagining God’s love while standing on the margins of the Catholic faith.
Order your copies now for yourself, your parish, religious community, ministry, school, and family to assure reception in time for the start of Advent, Sunday, November 30.
The price is $5.00 (with further discounts of 10 percent on orders of 10-99 or 30 percent for 100+).
Excellent for individual reflection and prayer or in small groups, the hard-copy version of the booklet is available for pre-order now. The electronic version will be available in November as a download for your e-reader.
