The Unsheltered Heart: An At-Home Advent Retreat (Cycle C)

The radical call of Gospel justice forms the foundation of this self-directed Advent retreat that is anchored in the Cycle C Sunday lectionary texts.

Award-winning author Ronald Patrick Raab, C.S.C., makes Advent a transformative journey through spiritual direction within a daily pattern of prayer, reflection, and action. Raab draws on his life and ministry at the St. Andre Bessette Catholic Church in Portland, Oregon, where his daily encounters with people living with poverty, homelessness, addiction, and mental illness complicate the meaning of the Incarnation in a fractured world. His narrative style unsettles, challenges, and enlightens, yet in the end offers the hope of Christ dwelling among us. The Unsheltered Heart provides a popular five-step retreat format for each day of Advent: pray, read, reflect, write, and act.