This year’s Advent prayer book has encounters as its central theme and invites us to kinship in a time of difficulty and uncertainty. The contributors are from the Ignatian family in the greater Los Angeles region of the Jesuits West Province.

In this book you will find stories of encounters, in the scriptures, in personal relationships, and in our call to community with one another. The authors encourage us “to notice what stirs for you as you read and pray with these personal reflections.” Each reflection has questions for further consideration. (Robert Stephan)

“How, or in whom, will we encounter the Light of the World this Advent/Christmas season, in this time of pandemic and in the work for racial equity, our need for healing and hope at the intersections of pandemic, race, and economic justice?” (Ann Holmquist)