# Watch for the Light: Readings for Advent and Christmas - Hardcover

by **Dietrich Bonhoeffer** (Author), **Annie Dillard** (Author), **Thomas Merton** (Author)

**This collection, born of obvious passion and graced with superb writing, is a welcome even necessary addition to the glutted holiday bookshelves.** _\-- Publishers Weekly_ (starred review)

**Though Christians the world over** 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.

**Ecumenical in scope,** 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.

**Includes contributions** by these and other writers:

-   C. S. Lewis, Madeleine L'Engle, Thomas Merton, and Philip Yancey
-   Dorothy Day, Henri Nouwen, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Oscar Romero, and Edith Stein
-   Martin Luther, Meister Eckhart, Eberhard Arnold, and Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt
-   T. S. Eliot, John Donne, and Sylvia Plath
-   Karl Barth, Will Willimon, Jüuuml;rgen Moltmann, and J. B. Phillips
-   Kathleen Norris, Brennan Manning, and Evelyn Underhill
-   Annie Dillard, St. Thomas Aquinas, and Gerard Manley Hopkins
-   Romano Guardini, St. John Chrysostom, and Giovanni Papini
-   Jane Kenyon, Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster, Isaac Penington, and Alfred Delp

**Number of Pages:** 344

**Dimensions:** 1.15 x 7.66 x 5.38 IN

**Publication Date:** September 22, 2014

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