In its sensitive Scriptural reflections on Advent, Waiting for Dawn reveals the wisdom of a heart which flows from a dialogue with God "which is, perhaps, more art and music than words." God is always arriving, but we are not always waiting for him. This book will help you to live your life more fully in Christ. "Angels don't appear to us if life is going to continue as before."
"Foreword", Fr. Ron Lengwin
Secretary for Pastoral Life
Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh
In Waiting for Dawn, Fr. Mark Gruber once again plumbs the depths of our being by the incisive beauty of his words as he names the hunger of the human heart which we have only intuited. The book presents the Advent Season as a prototype of our entire life illumined by the goal of seeking Christ, making sense of the events of each day when we allow God's love to channel the present into the future as it unfolds through the years.
The meditation on the O Antiphons captures the essential longing of the human heart, in contrast to the shallow desires that our secular culture has cultivated. The book leads us through the Advent landscape of our lives which usually reflects the external barrenness of winter, the apparent lack of promise, the absence of birth and life but which, in reality, becomes the welcoming space for the Savior and the graced opportunity to be blessed by the presence of God.
Mother Mary Anne Noll, O.S.B.
Prioress
Saint Emma Monastery
Greensburg, Pennsylvania
The Snare of Impatience
Barren yet Fruitful
The Drama Unfolding
The Prayer of Zechariah
The Silent Carpenter
Thief in the Night
The O Antiphons
Gaudete! Rejoice!
The Many Faces of Waiting
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