title: Sacred Reading for Advent and Christmas 2015-2016
author:  Apostleship of Prayer 
description: The Apostleship of Prayer is an international Jesuit prayer ministry that reaches more than 35 million members worldwide through its popular website, <i>ApostleshipofPrayer.org</i>, and through talks, conferences, publications, and retreats such as Hearts on Fire. Known as &#34;the pope's prayer group,&#34; the Apostleship's mission is to encourage Christians to make a daily offering of themselves to the Lord and at whose center is the love of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
zlib_text: FATHER GABRIEL OF ST. MARY MAGDALEN, O.C.D.
  
  
  ### DIVINE INTIMACY
  
  
  Volume I
  
  
  First Sunday of Advent through  
  the Eighth Week of Ordinary Time
  
  
  IGNATIUS PRESS SAN FRANCISCO
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  This enlarged and revised edition was  
  previously published by Dimension Books, Inc.  
  Translated from the Sixteenth Italian Edition  
  Carmelite Monastery of Pittsford, N.Y.
  
  
  With ecclesiastical approval  
  © Carmelite Monastery, Pittsford, N.Y. 14534  
  All rights reserved  
  Reprinted with permission of Dimension Books, 1987  
  ISBN 978-0-89870-142-5 (PB)  
  ISBN 978-1-68149-136-3 (EB)  
  Library of Congress catalogue number 86-83132  
  Printed in the United States of America
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### TABLE OF CONTENTS
  
  
  ADVENT SEASON
  
  
  Meditation
  
  
  [1\. FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT](index_split_007.html#filepos42561)
  
  
  year A
  
  
  year B
  
  
  year C
  
  
  [2\. Called to be Saints](index_split_007.html#filepos59247)
  
  
  [3\. Sanctified in Christ Jesus](index_split_007.html#filepos65926)
  
  
  [4\. Holiness Through Charity](index_split_00