Watch for the Light Readings for Advent and Christmas

<p><b><span>This collection, born of obvious passion and graced with superb writing, is a welcome even necessary addition to the glutted holiday bookshelves.</span> <i>-- Publishers Weekly</i>  (starred review)</b></p><p><span>Though Christians the world over</span> make yearly preparations for Lent, there’s a conspicuous lack of good books for that other great spiritual season: Advent. All the same, this four-week period leading up to Christmas is making a comeback as growing numbers reject shopping-mall frenzy and examine the deeper meaning of the season.</p><p><span>Ecumenical in scope,</span> these fifty devotions invite the reader to contemplate the great themes of Christmas and the significance that the coming of Jesus has for each of us – not only during Advent, but every day. Whether dipped into at leisure or used on a daily basis, Watch for the Light gives the phrase “holiday preparations” new depth and meaning.</p><p><span>Includes contributions</span> by these and other writers:</p><ul><li>C. S. Lewis, Madeleine L’Engle, Thomas Merton, and Philip Yancey</li><li>Dorothy Day, Henri Nouwen, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Oscar Romero, and Edith Stein</li><li>Martin Luther, Meister Eckhart, Eberhard Arnold, and Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt</li><li>T. S. Eliot, John Donne, and Sylvia Plath</li><li>Karl Barth, Will Willimon, Jürgen Moltmann, and J. B. Phillips</li><li>Kathleen Norris, Brennan Manning, and Evelyn Underhill</li><li>Annie Dillard, St. Thomas Aquinas, and Gerard Manley Hopkins</li><li>Romano Guardini, St. John Chrysostom, and Giovanni Papini</li><li>Jane Kenyon, Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster, Isaac Penington, and Alfred Delp</li></ul>