As we enter this season of Advent and await the celebration of Jesus’ birth—and as the days get darker and colder, and we await the first day of winter—and as we stand amidst the season of transitional waiting at ELPC, what are you waiting for, hoping for, longing for in your life and in our world?
Whatever it is you are waiting for, we want to encourage you to enter this liminal and threshold space purposefully and expectant. We invite you to enter this season with Zachariah, Elizabeth, Mary, Joseph, Simeon, Anna, and all of creation to what Richard Rohr calls, “God’s waiting room, where we are taught openness and patience as we come to expect an appointment with the divine Doctor.”
The Spiritual Life Committee invites you to take advantage of our opportunities in the season of Advent, to be present to your hopes and longings, be still with God and your siblings quietly expectant with all you are waiting for during Advent.
- Contemplative Prayer | Mondays, 7:30 am (on Zoom)
Begin your week in community with others, meditating and reflecting on various Advent passages of scripture, poems, and reflections. - Cathedral Yoga | Wednesdays, 6 pm
Take a mid-week pause to be present to all you’re holding in your body and join Yamuna Morgenstern for a time of gentle yoga. - Taizé: Sung Prayer and Quiet Meditation | Wednesdays, 7 pm
In the middle of your week, join us for a time of prayerful song and quiet meditation, as we dwell in Mary’s Magnificat (also called Canticle of Mary or Ode of the Theotokos) from Luke 1, all four weeks of Advent.
Let’s join together this Advent in our waiting and may we find the strength, courage, and hope to be in the waiting of this season, “as one awaits the birth of a child or as one awaits the fulfillment of their destiny” (Psalm 130:5).