The Season of Light is a guide for families, households, classrooms, communities, and parishes who wish to make the lighting of the Advent candles a daily prayer. For each day of the season, from the First Sunday of Advent until Christmas Day, The Season of Light offers a brief liturgy that is based on the structure of Vespers or Evening Prayer in the Liturgy of the Hours: the lighting of the candles (the lucernarium"), a reading from the Advent Scriptures, petitions and collect, and a final blessing.

The Advent wreath is one of the most enduring customs of the...

The Deacon's Ministry of the Word offers both scriptural and theological resources, as

well as strategies and approaches, for effectively communicating the word of God.

The book focuses primarily on the homily--but the ideas and skills can be readily applied

by deacons in any presentation in which the word of God is central including RCIA meetings

and retreat conferences.