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"Living with sacred readiness," this year's Pax Christi USA Advent reflection booklet, is co-written by Sharon Henderson Callahan and Jeanette Rodriguez. Their thought-provoking reflections, shaped by years of study of sacred scripture and Church teachings, and touched by their lived experiences as scholars, mothers, and Christ-followers, 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 29:
"...This is the quiet work of Advent, not a frantic anticipation, but a steady awakening, a training of our attention, a deepening of our capacity to love. Advent rekindles in us that sense of watching and waiting wherein we see and identify Christ’s constant emergence in our daily existence.
"We want to become persons who recognize Christ when Christ comes and who is ready at that very moment to notice grace in places where others see only conflict.
"We want to invite people to turn away from the passivity of Advent to a more active nurturing of the heart, attending to others, and action for incarnating the reign of God. Nonviolence is not only what we do, it is how we are in the world. It is a worldview, a way we receive and filter the world, and a way we perceive and respond to the world. It is sacramental. It asks us to recognize the dignity of every person, detect the early signs of harm, intervene with care before wounds deepen, and become a disciplined awareness that interrupts cycles of violence."
Sharon is Professor Emerita at Seattle University, School of Theology and Ministry. She grew up in western Washington and has been active in the Archdiocese her entire life, including serving as Pastoral Associate at parishes in Sumner and Puyallup. She has overseen parish education for adults, children and youth; was the director of the RENEW program at All Saints parish; was part of initiating SALT (Scripture and Leadership Training) in the Archdiocese; and has directed and taught Scripture in 14 parishes from Bellingham to Battleground. She and Jeanette recently coauthored "Women Called to Catholic Priesthood: From Ecclesial Challenge to Spiritual Renewal."
Jeanette is a professor at Seattle University in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies. She served on the Pax Christi USA national council from 2004-2010, and was recently named an Associate of the Catholic Institute for Nonviolence. She has served as Executive Director of the Institute for Thought and Culture, holds the Malcolm and Mari Stamper Endowed Chair in Catholic Intellectual and Cultural Traditions, and co-chairs the Laudato Sí Action Platform Steering Committee. She is the author of several books and articles concentrated in the areas of US Hispanic theology, theologies of liberation, peacebuilding, and women’s spirituality, including "Our Lady of Guadalupe: Faith and Empowerment among Mexican American Women," and most recently co-authored with Sharon "Women Called to Catholic Priesthood: From Ecclesial Challenge to Spiritual Renewal." She has served as board member for the Academy of Hispanic Theologians in the United States.
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 29.
The price is $5.00 (with further discounts of 10 percent on orders of 10-99 or 30 percent for 100+).
The electronic version will be available before Advent begins.
