Advent 2021 Resources (archive)
Advent 2021 resources to archive
Advent.
Busted Halo has an online Advent Calendar with a quote and a micro spiritual practice for each day. Other resources are available on their site as well.
The Episcopal Church offers an Advent Curriculum for Year C on Becoming Beloved Community. This is the perfect follow up to Sacred Ground, or perhaps as a lead in before starting Sacred Ground circles in 2022
Living Well through Advent 2021: Practicing Patience with all our Heart, Soul, Strength, and Mind, a daily booklet from Living Compass
Candle Press is offering a free, downloadable resource for families for Advent through the Feast of the Epiphany. The suggestions help busy families create a space to bring the richness of the season into their homes. They pick what works for them amid the myriad demands on their time. Available through December 17, 2021.
Saint Nicholas Day on December 6. Find resources for celebrating the feast of St. Nicholas as well as many other resources for Advent and Christmas at the St. Nicholas Center.
Journeying the Way of Love in Advent contains a curriculum and an Advent Calendar in English, Spanish, and French
For the eighth year, #AdventWord will gather prayers via a global, online Advent calendar. Forward Movement, the new home of AdventWord, will offer 28 daily meditations and images during this holy season beginning Sunday, November 28. Here are bulletin inserts from the Episcopal Church Center to print or use digitally. A book of Advent Devotions is available for purchase from Forward Movement.
Celebrate Posadas - This short guide, available in English and in Spanish, provides practical suggestions for congregations that would like to hold an evening (or several evenings) of Posadas. The guide includes ideas for engaging neighbors and children, as well as suggestions for Latino-Anglo engagement. It features both English and Spanish versions of the Posadas song, on music sheets showing the melody and chords for guitar. An accompanying webpage, available at www.VenAdelante.org, provides multimedia resources: videos clips to learn how to play and sing the Posadas song, mp3 versions of the song in English and in Spanish, and links to a Facebook page where congregations are sharing videos and pictures of their own Posadas.
Holy Land Advent Calendar: This Advent learn about the lives of Holy Land Christians and the ministries of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem. with an online calendar from the American Friends of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem.
Thomas Mousin and Merry Watters create a lovely, downloadable Advent Calendar every year.
Praying in Color (a wonderfully accessible prayer practice) offers some downloadable templates for doodling your way through daily prayers.
Gretchen Pritchard is offering a four-session adult formation series of resources for meditation, conversation, and worship during Advent, with a theme for each session: (1) Desolation and longing; (2) Judgment (watchfulness, repentance, preparation); (3) Dawning and hope; (4) Annunciation, journey and birth. At the end of the document is an Order of Worship in the Evening, which can be used at the end of each session and incorporate one of the hymns from that session.