I love Advent. It is the anticipation to the fulfillment of a promise.The wonderful thing about Advent is that the season invites us to spend some intentional time in reflection and preparation for God’s coming into our lives through the person of Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n
By our baptism, each of us is like Mary, knowing that God works invisible miracles that change us from within. And as we wait for the transformation to unfold, we participate in the birthing of a new life. This gradual process takes time and it is life changing.<\/p>\n
There are many other preparations we make for the holidays: cleaning, shopping, wrapping gifts. I encourage you to give yourself a wonderful spiritual gift. Allow some quiet time each day for prayer and meditation on God’s decision to be born as a human baby, poor and in a stable. Allow yourself some time to prepare your heart and soul for the presence of Christ in the year to come.<\/p>\n
Faithfully \/ Bendiciones,
\nAmy+<\/p>\n
Me encanta el Adviento. Es la anticipaci\u00f3n al cumplimiento de una promesa.Lo maravilloso de Adviento es que la temporada nos invita a pasar un momento intencional en la reflexi\u00f3n y la preparaci\u00f3n para la venida de Dios en nuestras vidas a trav\u00e9s de la persona de Jesucristo.<\/span><\/p>\n Por nuestro bautismo, cada uno de nosotros es como Mar\u00eda, sabiendo que Dios hace milagros invisibles que nos cambian desde dentro. Y mientras esperamos que la transformaci\u00f3n a desplegarse, participamos en el nacimiento de una nueva vida. Este proceso gradual toma tiempo y es un cambio de vida.<\/span><\/p>\n Hay muchas otras preparaciones que hacemos para las fiestas: la limpieza, compras, envolver regalos. Le animo a darse un don espiritual maravilloso. Deje un poco de tranquilidad cadad\u00eda para la oraci\u00f3n y la meditaci\u00f3n de la decisi\u00f3n de Dios para nacer como un beb\u00e9 humano, pobre y en un establo. Deje un poco tiempo para preparar su coraz\u00f3n y el alma de la presencia de Cristo en el a\u00f1o por venir.<\/span><\/p>\n Faithfully \/ Bendiciones,<\/span> I love Advent. It is the anticipation to the fulfillment of a promise.The wonderful thing about Advent is that the season invites us to spend some intentional time in reflection and preparation for God’s coming into our lives through the person of Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n Me encanta el Adviento. Es la anticipaci\u00f3n al cumplimiento de una promesa.Lo maravilloso de Adviento es que la temporada nos invita a pasar un momento intencional en la reflexi\u00f3n y la preparaci\u00f3n para la venida de Dios en nuestras vidas a trav\u00e9s de la persona de Jesucristo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7770,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[13,106,104,105],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-advent","tag-episcopal","tag-st-johns","tag-waterbury"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15363,"href":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions\/15363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n Amy+<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"