Advent calls us into a season of waiting—but not a quiet or passive kind of waiting. It’s a season filled with voices. It’s not only a time to remember those God called to bring Jesus into the world, but a time to become people who bear Christ in our everyday lives.
The stories of Advent don’t simply give us voices to listen to; they show us what it looks like to find and use our own. John the Baptist cries out in the wilderness, naming what needs to change. Mary proclaims a future where the lowly are lifted, and the world is turned toward justice.
Their witness becomes our invitation and our model. We’re called to use our voices to name what is broken, to proclaim what God is bringing into being, and to join in shaping a world that reflects Christ. Let us proclaim Christ’s love and presence together, trusting that even now, God is forming a world renewed in love.
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Week 1: Christ the King Sunday
Christ the King Sunday celebrates the idea that Christ has come and is still coming. The paradoxical celebration of both Shepherd and King. Nurturer and protector. Jesus comes to show a new way of power—rescuing the lost, healing the harmed, and unseating every false claim to power. Together we’ll discover and wonder what this reality could look like in our very own community as we prepare to enter the season of Advent full of waiting and listening.
Week 2: Advent 1: Hope
The mystery of hope began with Jesus and continues with us. As we pause to listen for the voices of hope, we acknowledge that hope lives alongside lament—whispering what is possible in a world that shouts despair is the only option. Together, we’ll practice listening for the voice of hope through art, prayer, and collective work towards making a more just world.
Scripture: Psalm 80:1-7, 17-19, NRSVUE
Week 3: Advent 2: Peace
The peace of God calls us to wholeness. Peace looks like a community where needs are met, care is accessible, community members thrive, creation is respected, deep-soul rest is celebrated, and all of God’s children are honored through the Imago Dei. Today we will pause to recognize where we are lacking this peace and listen to where we might be called to be people of peace to build a more whole, peace-filled world for all of God’s children.
Scripture: Mark 1:1-8, Isaiah 40:1-11
Week 4: Advent 3: Joy
Week three of Advent is all about Joy, often called Gaudete Sunday, which means ‘rejoice’ in Latin. This week, we explore joy not simply as an emotion we experience, but as a spiritual practice we cultivate. Practicing joy requires us to notice where joy is already present in our lives and to make space to notice, receive, and share it.
This week, we’ll look closely at Mary’s song, the Magnificat, a song in which God “scatters the proud” and “lifts up the lowly.” It is a song of both justice and joy. Mary is not unafraid, and her joy does not erase the complexity or uncertainty of her circumstances. The same is true for us. Our joy often exists in tension with other emotions. Mary invites us to hold these feelings together rather than believing we must resolve one before experiencing the other.
Scripture: Luke 1:46b-55, Isaiah 61:1-4, 8:11
Week 5: Advent 4: Love
This week’s focus is on faithfulness and discernment as acts of love. When Gabriel appears to Mary, she does not respond with immediate certainty. She asks, “How can this be?” and must consider a calling that will profoundly change her life without knowing everything that will come next. Her questions are not evidence of weak faith; they are part of her discernment. Mary listens, wonders, and ultimately chooses to trust God and respond faithfully.
Faithfulness does not require certainty, nor does discernment always provide us with every answer before we move forward. Instead, faith invites us to make room for our questions while remaining open to God’s presence and calling. Participants will be invited to consider how questions, boundaries, trusted relationships, and communal wisdom can all be part of faithful discernment. Love does not demand unquestioning obedience; it makes space for us to listen, question, discern, and freely respond to God’s invitation.
Scripture: Luke 1:26–38, Psalm 89:1–4, 19–26
Week 6: Sunday after Christmas: Christmas 1: Light
A baby has been born, and everything has changed. This is the mystery and miracle of Christmas. Throughout Advent, we have waited, prepared, and practiced listening for the voices of hope, peace, joy, and love. Now that Christ has come among us, we are invited to consider how we will respond. Listening leads to response, and response leads to discipleship. This week, we explore what it means to carry what we have heard and experienced beyond the Christmas story, responding to the incarnation through the ways we live, love, and participate in God’s work in the world.
Scripture: Luke 2:22-40
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