Advent Study 2026

Join Us for the Advent 2026 Study from Living Compass
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PRACTICING PATIENCE
with all your heart, spirit, body and mind

Excerpt from The First Sunday in Advent
by Lisa Senuta

“In the beginning there is a seed, a thought, a spark, a light, a word; Advent is the time before the birth of Jesus Christ. You could say it is the germination moment of the new life of peace he revealed.

Most of us skip Advent. The season is brief and busy and Christmas seems like the real goal anyway. And yet, like a seed in the fertile ground waiting and waiting, hidden beneath the surface of anxious scriptures predicting final judgment, Advent is rich with spiritual guidance.

It is fair to say that we are not generally good at waiting…Inside all of our impatience is God’s invitation to trust and to grow in all our circumstances. Enter the fertile time of Advent, “jump off the deep end and take a chance to grow,” for your assent to divine action is inextricably connected to the world’s becoming a peaceful flourishing place of love and wholeness.”

Learning to love God and love our neighbors with all of our being takes practice – especially in being patient!
This Advent, we have the opportunity to practice patience together

ADVENT STUDY BOOKLETS ARE NOW AVAILABLE IN THE BACK OF THE CHURCH ON THE LAST PEW.
THEY ARE FREE – PLEASE TAKE ONE!

See the additional resources available in the downloadable poster below
and from LiovingCompass.org

“Love is patient; love is kind… It does not insist on its own way.”  
1 Corinthians 13:4-5 

“Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him.”  
Psalm 37:7

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