Waiting for God: The Grace of Advent Catholic Perspectives

Contrasting her Christmases as a child to those she’s celebrated as an adult, author Alice Camille admits to pining for those early holiday memories-and the anticipation that went with them. She recognizes, however, that “while some elements of a child’s Advent season escape our grasp as grownups … other aspects of the season deepen and bloom for us veterans of many Decembers.”

By Alice Camille