Advent Devotionals – Suggestions for the Season: Updated for 2020

by Christine Sine November 4, 2019

November 4, 2019

It’s time to get ready for Advent and Christmas. It may seem a little early to some but with Celtic Advent beginning November 15th, it really is time to figure out what we want to do during the season. Last year I added this list of Advent image books to our resource lists. This year I wanted to add a new collection to our list of resources – Advent devotionals.

There is an overwhelming array of devotionals out there but I have several go to gems that I love to return to each year. This year (not surprisingly) I am supplementing them with our Godspace Advent/Christmas devotional cards. As well as that I asked my Facebook friends what they would suggest and they came back with a number of delightful sounding books that I have added to the list. Just remember – I have not read most of these devotionals and they are contributed by people with a very diverse theological background – which is part of what I love about my Facebook friends. They really are a very diverse community.

Amy Robinson: Image of the Invisible.

A Redemptorist Pastoral Publication: Advent and Christmas with Thomas Merton

Bud Holland: Advent Presence: Kissed by the Past, Beckoned by the Future

Crossan and Borg: The First Christmas

David Cole: Celtic Advent

Dietrich Bonhoeffer: God is in the Manger

Enuma Okoro: Silence and other Surprising Invitations of Advent,

Heidi Haverkamp: Advent in Narnia!

Gayle Boss: All Creation Waits: The Advent Mystery of New Beginnings

Henri Nouwen: Advent and Christmas Wisdom

Jan Richardson: Sacred Journeys

Jean McLachlan Hess: Journey to the Manger with St. Patrick and Friends.