Resources for the 2025 Advent Season:
“Creation Awaits with Eager Expectation“, Catholic Climate Covenant
For the first time, the Covenant is offering an Advent collection of 26 daily short prayers and reflections based on Romans 8:19 (“For creation awaits with eager expectation for the revelation of the children of God”) written by an incredibly diverse group of U.S. Catholics. To download the 2025 Advent resource please fill out this form.
Season of Advent 2025 Photo Reflections, Sr. Caroljean Willie, Sr. of Charity of Cincinnati, Earth Justice Circle: Daily photo reflection for Advent 2025
“No Room at the Inn? Advent, Migration, and Radical Welcome,” Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers
This Advent we remember how Mary and Joseph sought shelter, knocking until finally a door opened. Through traditions like Las Posadas and Panunuluyan, communities are reminded to embody radical hospitality, opening space for God’s presence in the stranger, the migrant, and the excluded. Sign up today to have this free resource in English and Spanish.
2025 Advent Reflection Guide: Walking with God , Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns
Contains reflections, questions, prayers, and actions focused on responding to the needs of immigrants, based on each week’s Gospel reading and the experience of Maryknoll missioners who have lived and worked with marginalized communities around the world.
“Entering the Night of Peace: Advent 2025 Reflection Guide”, Pax Christi USA
Co-written by Cameron Bellm and Flora x. Tang. Their poetic and thought-provoking reflections will be a welcome part of your daily prayer life during the Advent season, and can lead to rich and meaningful sharing within your prayer community. $5 each – discounts for orders of 10 or more booklets!
Advent Simplicity Challenge, Ignatian Solidarity Network
This Advent, commit to simplicity. In a season that can mistakenly be focused on gifts and consumption, explore ways to live simply as we hopefully prepare for the coming of Jesus and the restoration of the earth. This year, we’ll be mixing in new daily challenges, as well as accompanying PDFs for folks who prefer not to use the interactive calendar.
Pray with the CRS Advent Wreath, Catholic Relief Services invites you to visit their Advent page each week of Advent to help prepare your heart for Christmas. As you light the candle of your Advent Wreath, reflect on the many gifts Jesus brings to our lives—including hope, faith, joy and peace—and on our Gospel call to share them with others to build a more just and peaceful world. Together, let’s prepare our hearts for a Christmas filled with love and purpose! More CRS Advent wreath prayers available here.
Less Hectic, More Holy Advent Workshops for Staying Centered and Sane, The Pastoral Center
Through the Wilderness: Healing for a Weary World, JustFaith Advent Series 2025:
This series invites participants to courageously name the brokenness around and within us; explore what it means to embody prophetic love and courage in today’s world; and dream of a world made whole – and begin to walk toward it. Each session is based on the Old Testament reading from the Revised Common Lectionary (Year A). Though designed primarily for in-person small groups, this series can be easily adapted for individual use or larger gatherings.
From SALT:
Candle lighting litanies for personal, family-based, and/or parish use during Advent
and “Starry Nights: An Advent Devotional Full of Light and Wonder,” and accompanying Customizable Short Film, suitable for church websites, social media, and worship services (find out more about Customizable Short Films here). The film is designed so it can stand alone or be used in tandem with the devotional, for a coordinated approach to the season.
You can find more Advent resources from SALT here.
Advent Conspiracy: Lifting four tents during advent:—Worship Fully, Spend Less, Give More, Love All—to guide themselves, their families, and congregations through the Christmas season.