Prepare the Way: Devotions for Advent

Most people think of Advent as a warm-up to Christmas but actually its the other way around. Christmas is a preview of Advent!Christmas is the festival of rejoicing at Christs first coming-the beautiful unlikely start of our salvation! But each year in the last week of December the trees come down the lights are unplugged our nativity scenes are wrapped in newspaper and our Joy to the world fades into silence until next year. Advent on the other hand is a bigger celebration-one that cant be boxed up and stored in the attic. Advent celebrates the grace of Christs first coming and then it reaches with restless anticipation for the fuller grace of his second appearing and the completion of our salvation! Through the devotional readings in Prepare the Way we invite you to celebrate Advent again. For 28 days join with St. Paul King David the Psalmist Zechariah Gabriel Mary Elizabeth and John the Baptist along with the crowds who flocked to him as they rejoiced in the good news of Christmas and then look beyond it for the holiday that never ends!