RCL reflection, First Sunday of Advent, Year A. November 30, 2025. This week’s readings encourage us to be alert and wakeful. But to do that in today’s busy-busy world, we need our rest. Karen Johnson Kretschmann explores. (Photo: Creative Commons)
Preparing for Advent’s ‘Holy Disruptions’
RCL Reflection, 1st Sunday in Advent, Year A: November 27, 2022.
This season of longing for justice, for the healing and restoration of creation, for the Messiah’s arrival, begins amid our culture’s height of hyper-consumerism. Advent provides welcome disruptions from empire’s business-as-usual.
This present time
RCL Lectionary Reflection, First Sunday of Advent, Year A, December 1, 2019
By living and savoring the present moment, we are able to piece together a life of moments lived in expectation and awareness—imagine a colorful quilt of unique patterns that tell a story and give meaning and contour to a life of discipleship and stewardship. Advent blesses us with the call to pay attention, to be awake, and to anticipate a different world order. (Photo: Allan Cleaver, Creative Commons)
Ready or Not: Here Comes Jesus
Revised Common Lectionary Reflection for the First Sunday of Advent, Year A, November 27, 2016
Advent is a time for God’s faithful and generous people to be “ready” and flexible with time, talent, and treasure, even as we wait and watch for God’s incarnation among us. (Photo: Daniel X. O’Neil,
Expecting the Unexpected
Lectionary Reflection, First Sunday of Advent, Year A December 1, 2013 Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an unexpected hour. — Matthew 24:44 What do you expect of this season? What does Advent mean to you? Is it a time of waiting and watching for glimpses of […]
Stewards of Advent: Wake, Watch, and Wait!
FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT, Year A, Nov. 28, 2010
Wake up, sleepy Christian! Don’t be lulled into consumer compliance for the holiday season. Be stewards of Advent and celebrate the texts that call us to radical awareness God at work in the world and role in that work. (Photo by Per Ola Wiberg used under a Creative Commons License. Thanks!)
