Simple Advent Abundant Life

Simple Advent, Abundant Life: Jesus is the star that guides us from chaos toward simplicity. Reading time: 2.5 minutes.

Simple Advent, Abundant Life: Real change requires taking steps toward simpler living as a community. Reading time: 2.5 minutes.

Simple Advent, Abundant Life: Along with vegetables, a senior at at Bishop O’Dowd High School harvests lessons about life. Reading time: 2.5 minutes.

Simple Advent, Abundant Life:  We are meant to be in relationship with one another. As climate change causes unprecedented occurences, the need for strong connections is more important than ever. Reading time: 2 minutes.

Simple Advent, Abundant Life: Early Christians show us a model of how community can bring about true abundance, rather than each person trying to meet their own needs. Reading time: 2 minutes.

Simple Advent, Abundant Life: Struggling with managing your media usage? Consider a technology sabbath to unplug and take a break from your phone, computer or other devices. Reading time: 2.5 minutes.

Simple Advent, Abundant Life: One high school senior at Cristo Rey St. Martin is finding ways each day to to keep our environment clean. Reading time: 2.5 minutes.

Simple Advent, Abundant Life: Food is the most common item we consume, though many of us are disconncected from where and how of what we eat. Reading time: 3 minutes.

Simple Advent, Abundant Life: Dec. 16 marks the beginning of the celebration of las Posadas. What distracts or prevents you from making space this Advent to welcome the season's most important guest? Reading time: 2 minutes.

Simple Advent, Abundant Life: In a household of two, there are four spatulas. It may seem like a silly area to focus, but the spatulas are a symptom of a bigger problem. Reading time: 3 minutes.

Simple Advent, Abundant Life: This week as we reflect on simple living and consumption, "How much is enough?" is a question for us to pray over and honestly evaluate in our own lives. Reading time: 2.5 minutes.

Simple Advent, Abundant Life: Gaudete Sunday reminds us that the coming of Jesus is near. It also reminds us that true, lasting joy comes from God, not gifts. Reading time: 90 seconds.

Simple Advent, Abundant Life: Today's Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe is a reminder that in our journey toward simplicity, we are called to stand with indigenous communities, migrants and refugees. Reading time: 2 minutes.

Simple Advent, Abundant Life: Where does what we buy originate? How might the purchases we make this holiday season choose "the health of the whole community"? Reading time: 2 minutes.

Simple Advent, Abundant Life: A less-stuffed suitcase led to an epiphany about living simply for one senior at John Carroll University. Reading time: 3 minutes.

Simple Advent, Abundant Life: When money becomes our focus, it takes away our freedom to love our neighbor and to be in right relationship — with each other and the earth. Reading time: 2.5 minutes.

Simple Advent, Abundant Life: What were you told growing up about the relation between money and happiness? When have you felt that you were living most abundantly? Reading time: 2.5 minutes.

Simple Advent, Abundant Life: Too often, our treasures can seem tucked in department store sales. But how and where we spend our money can also demonstrate what we value. Reading time: 2 minutes.

Simple Advent, Abundant Life: Begin the second week of Advent by reorienting ourselves in natural candlelight and the light of our faith. Reading time: 3 minutes.

Simple Advent, Abundant Life: For many, the days of the pandemic may have felt repetitive. But each moment, even the ordinary ones, is an opportunity for God to speak to us. Reading time: 4 minutes.

Simple Advent, Abundant Life: Two college students rethink the word "dominion" and what it means for living more sustainably in our common home. Reading time: 2 minutes.

Simple Advent, Abundant Life: Within our fast-paced lives, it can pay to pause, especially at this time of year. How might pausing invite you into a simpler way of living? Reading time: 90 seconds.

Simple Advent, Abundant Life: When we are conscious of what in our lives we value most, we reconnect with those things that are most meaningful. Reading time: 2 minutes.

Simple Advent, Abundant Life: When the weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas seem to speed up, what are ways to slow life down? Reading time: 60 seconds.

Simple Advent, Abundant Life: What trappings of the "good life" are stumbling blocks for you? What are ways you can embody the abundant life that Jesus models? Reading time: 2 minutes.

Simple Advent, Abundant Life: Shift your gaze from the frenzy of the Christmas season to what is most essential in our lives with this new reflection series for Advent. Reading time: 60 seconds.