Join us this Advent Season as we reflect on the sacred using the concepts we learned during Lent when we studied “The Universal Christ” by Father Richard Rohr. This series by Marcia McFee from Worship Design Studios will guide us along this journey.

The Christmas season is a time when the juxtaposition of the sacred and secular feels sometimes blatantly opposed, and sometimes quite blurred. The word “sacred” points to something dedicated as “holy” and “set apart.” This year, you are invited to a spiritual journey of seeing ALL things pregnant with the Holy. What could our experience of the Advent and Christmas season be like if we lived it imagining that everything is reflecting the sacred?

During the First Sunday of Advent, our focus will be on “sacred time” and create space for hope.

“… you know what time it is. The hour has already come for you to wake up from your sleep… the night is far gone, the day is near.” - Romans 13: 11-14

“Keep awake therefore, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming.” - Matthew 24: 36-44

The busy-ness of the holiday season can overrun the sense of the sacred. The irony is that setting apart time for connection with the sacred gets pushed aside in order to create the trappings of what is supposed to be the season of celebrating the incarnation of the Holy! We will begin our Advent journey toward Christmas by emphasizing the gift of being awake to the “now”… the gift of sacred time with God, with each other, and with those in need of hope.