Contemplative Resources for Advent: An Advent Reading from The Great Belonging and More!

It’s the First Sunday of Advent and Charlotte is here to provide some refreshing Advent resources that aren’t just like everything else already our there.

Here’s a video with an Advent Reading from The Great Belonging, information on how to secure your Advent wreath candles, an announcement about Advent breath prayers using the Book of Common Prayer, and more!

Also, this video features a GORGEOUS Advent wreath made by Mark Bair.

For more great Advent and Church Year resources that aren't just like everything else out there, follow Charlotte on Instagram at @charlottedonlon. That’s where you’ll find Advent Breath Prayers using the Book of Common Prayer.

For more contemplative resources for writers (and others!), check here on ourfaithinwriting.com.


Charlotte Donlon helps her readers and clients notice how they belong to themselves, others, God, and the world. Charlotte is a writer, a spiritual director for writers, and the founder of Spiritual Direction for Writers™ and Parenting with Art™. She is also the founder and host of the Our Faith in Writing podcast and website. Her essays have appeared in The Washington Post, The Curator, The Christian Century, Christianity Today, Catapult, The Millions, Mockingbird, and elsewhere. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Seattle Pacific University where she studied creative nonfiction with Paula Huston and Lauren F. Winner. She holds a certificate in spiritual direction from Selah Center for Spiritual Formation. Her first book is The Great Belonging: How Loneliness Leads Us to Each Other. To receive Charlotte’s latest updates, news, announcements, and other good things, subscribe to her email newsletter.

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