Watch For The Light: Readings For Advent And Christmas

Though Christians the world over make yearly preparations for Lent there s a conspicuous lack of good books for that other great spiritual season: Advent. All the same this four-week period leading up to Christmas is making a comeback as growing numbers reject shopping-mall frenzy and examine the deeper meaning of the season. Ecumenical in scope these fifty devotions invite the reader to contemplate the great themes of Christmas and the significance that the coming of Jesus has for each of us not only during Advent but every day. Whether dipped into at leisure or used on a daily basis Watch for the Light gives the phrase holiday preparations new depth and meaning. Includes writings by Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt Sylvia Plath J. B. Phillips Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster Henri Nouwen Bernard of Clairvaux Kathleen Norris Meister Eckhart St. Thomas Aquinas Karl Rahner Isaac Penington Madeleine L Engle Alfred Delp Loretta Ross-Gotta William Stringfellow J. Heinrich Arnold Edith Stein Philip Britts Jane Kenyon John Howard Yoder Emmy Arnold Karl Barth Oscar Romero William Willimon Johann Christoph Arnold Gail Godwin Leonardo Boff G. M. Hopkins Evelyn Underhill Dorothy Day Brennan Manning Dietrich Bonhoeffer Romano Guardini Annie Dillard Martin Luther St. John Chrysostom Giovanni Papini Dorothee Soelle C. S. Lewis Gustavo Gutierrez Philip Yancey J. T. Clement Thomas Merton Eberhard Arnold Ernesto Cardenal T. S. Eliot John Donne Gian Carlo Menotti and Jurgen Moltmann.