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October 25, 2024, Waterford, Connecticut – In her latest booklet, Advent 2024: Becoming Pilgrims of Hope, Sister Janet Schaeffler, OP, offers daily reflections, practices, and prayers to help readers find hope in everyday life, even in difficult times. 

In her introduction to the booklet, Sister Janet noted that she drew the theme from the motto Pope Francis gave to the Jubilee Year of 2025: Pilgrims of Hope. “This sacred Advent season – preparing us, once again, for the celebration of Jesus coming into the world – is also a unique time: preparing us to reflect on and live in hope,” Sister Janet wrote. “In this time and place, we are called to deepen hope, to be people of trust, to be pilgrims and messengers of hope in all the circumstances of our lives.”

Sister Janet, who has ministered for years in adult faith formation, is a consultant for catechists and adult faith formation leaders and a retreat director. She has written numerous booklets, particularly on spirituality for catechists and other church ministers, as well as for families. She also writes the annual Advent booklet. 

Copies of Advent 2024: Becoming Pilgrims of Hope are available from Twenty-third Publications and the Weber Center Shop at Weber Retreat and Conference Center on the Motherhouse Campus of the Adrian Dominican Sisters. The shop is open from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Wednesday through Friday and 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Saturday. The shop is closed for lunch from noon to 12:45 p.m. You can also order the Advent 2024 booklet by calling 517-266-4035 or emailing [email protected].  
 

November 10, 2023, Adrian, Michigan – How can we be transformed during Advent as we prepare for the coming of Christ? Through an Advent Retreat: The Potter and the Clay, Father Vic Clore offers reflections on rich Scripture readings, allowing participants to be formed by the Potter, daring to beat our swords into plowshares and building our house on solid rock.

The Advent Retreat is from 6:30 p.m. Sunday, December 3, 2023, through 11:00 a.m. Thursday, December 7, 2023, at Weber Retreat and Conference Center. 

Father Vic has been a parish priest in Detroit since 1966, always serving in racially integrated city parishes. He also served on the staff of the Dominican Center: Spirituality for Mission. He attended Sacred Heart Seminary in high school and college and holds graduate degrees in theology from the Gregorian University in Rome and developmental psychology from Wayne State University in Detroit.

The cost, including meals, is $160 for commuters, $325 per person double occupancy, and $425 single occupancy. Registration is required. Visit www.webercenter.org and click on programs; call 517-266-4000; or email [email protected]. Limited scholarships are available.

Weber Center is on the campus of the Adrian Dominican Sisters Motherhouse, Adrian, Michigan. Traveling east on Siena Heights Drive, pass the Adrian Rea Literacy Center and turn left just before the solar panel-covered parking lot. Follow the signs to Weber Center. For information, call the Weber Center at 517-266-4000.