Resources
As we prepare for Christmas and celebrate the Advent season, check out a few of our favorite resources and gifts, including a guide for hard conversations at the holiday and some treasured books for yourself and the kids.
CCPL’s 2022 Christmas Resources & Gifts
Practices & Habits
From our friends at Edible Theology, check out this Guide to Hard Conversations at the Holidays.
The Common Rule Advent Edition is a set of four daily habits designed to help you lean into the Advent Season and long for the light. Their Christmas Morning Liturgy is a beautiful way to walk through the Christmas story with your family.
Books to Read or Gift
How can we trust God in the dark? Tish Harrison Warren explores themes of human vulnerability, suffering, and God's seeming absence in her book “Prayer in the Night.” An excellent book to meditate on for Advent and the Winter Solstice.
In “Advent: The Once and Future Coming of Jesus Christ” Fleming Rutledge discusses Advent as a time of rich paradoxes, a season celebrating at once Christ’s incarnation and his second coming, and she masterfully unfolds the ethical and future-oriented significance of Advent for the church.
The Trinity Forum’s Christmas Literature Collection makes a thoughtful Christmas gift, including A Christmas Carol, Babette’s Feast, The Strangest Story in the World, The Gift of the Magi & Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen, and Pilgrim’s Progress.
For The Kids
Add a new family tradition with The Giving Manger. You’ll find your kids eager do acts of service and your home filled with an attitude of warmth and love throughout December.
Ann Voskamp’s “Unwrapping the Greatest Gift: A Family Celebration of Christmas” is a beautiful collection of illustrations, stories, and activities to enjoy as a family. Also check out her Interactive Advent Calendar.
A Catholic Family Advent: Prayers and Activities provides thoughtful reflections, Scripture verses, and activities to make this season of Advent meaningful for the whole family.