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2020 Magnificat Advent Companion
Prepare your heart to welcome the Prince of Peace.
This pocket-sized Companion follows a practical, page-a-day format and features original meditations on each day's Gospel by one of twenty-one gifted authors.
Each year's Advent Companion is different from the last, and contains these one-of-a-kind extras that you won't find anywhere else:
- A variety of beautiful and practical blessings
- An Advent Penance Service
- Specially commissioned poetry
- Advent Stations
- The O Antiphons
Advent is that sacred season of anticipation and expectation in which we come to terms with the deepest yearning of our soul—a yearning fulfilled only in Jesus Christ. As we wait in longing for the coming of the Christ Child at Christmas, we turn over to him all the false satisfactions—the compromises—of our life. To live Advent is to live in the awareness of a Presence that changes us.
Our Advent preparation is marked by vigilance—custody of the heart, in which we keep our soul fixed on the Lord. For what we see incarnate in the infant Jesus we desire for ourselves: purity, innocence, childlikeness restored. In the birth of this Child we know the promise of our own spiritual rebirth.
This rich spiritual companion will accompany you like a beloved friend through the four weeks of Advent with poignant scriptural reflections for each day of the season. You will also find a wealth of meditative prayers, essays, and poetry, an examination of conscience, and a unique feature: the Advent Stations.
If you long for the nearness of God in your life, this invaluable little booklet promises to bring you ever closer to the One who promised: I am with you always (Mt 28:20).
This pocket-sized Companion follows a practical, page-a-day format and features original meditations on each day's Gospel by one of twenty-one gifted authors.
Each year's Advent Companion is different from the last, and contains these one-of-a-kind extras that you won't find anywhere else:
- A variety of beautiful and practical blessings
- An Advent Penance Service
- Specially commissioned poetry
- Advent Stations
- The O Antiphons
Advent is that sacred season of anticipation and expectation in which we come to terms with the deepest yearning of our soul—a yearning fulfilled only in Jesus Christ. As we wait in longing for the coming of the Christ Child at Christmas, we turn over to him all the false satisfactions—the compromises—of our life. To live Advent is to live in the awareness of a Presence that changes us.
Our Advent preparation is marked by vigilance—custody of the heart, in which we keep our soul fixed on the Lord. For what we see incarnate in the infant Jesus we desire for ourselves: purity, innocence, childlikeness restored. In the birth of this Child we know the promise of our own spiritual rebirth.
This rich spiritual companion will accompany you like a beloved friend through the four weeks of Advent with poignant scriptural reflections for each day of the season. You will also find a wealth of meditative prayers, essays, and poetry, an examination of conscience, and a unique feature: the Advent Stations.
If you long for the nearness of God in your life, this invaluable little booklet promises to bring you ever closer to the One who promised: I am with you always (Mt 28:20).
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Published August 30, 2020
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December 25, 2020
The MAGNIFICAT ADVENT COMPANION has accompanied me during Advent for many years now. It is a rich, spiritual guide with daily scripture readings, daily essays by noted Magnicat contributors, reflections and meditations. The booklet is a wealth of prayers, including the Advent Stations, praying the O Antiphons, and traditional Advent and Christmas blessings. The daily essays follow the readings of the day found in the MAGNIFICAT missal. I would be missing a valuable component in my Advent journey without this rich, complete spirtual guide.
December 25, 2020
A lovely book with lots of extras to keep the advent season focused on what's really important during the midst of these crazy times
December 25, 2020
Always a nice companion during Advent
December 27, 2020
Good companion enjoyed the daily readings
December 31, 2020
This devotional always bring you closer to holiness of Advent.
June 7, 2024
Good companion enjoyed the daily readings
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