This year, Advent begins on Dec. 1, so all those chocolate and whiskey and novelty underwear advent calendars* will actually work out right for once! However, if you’re looking for a little boost to help you focus on spiritual growth, I recommend Magnificat. I am a subscriber and it’s a wonderful way to start the day.
In addition to their daily spiritual guide, Magnificat puts out an annual Advent Companion, available in print and digital form.
I have four codes for a free copy of the digital version to give away — two for iOs and two for Android. To enter into the giveaway, use the Rafflecopter forms at the bottom of this post. Please note: THERE ARE TWO SEPARATE GIVEAWAYS, ONE FOR ANDROID AND ONE FOR iOS! Be sure to enter the contest for the code you can use on your device!
Good luck! I’ll pick a winner this weekend. If you don’t win, the book version is $4.99 and the app versions are $2.99.
*I assume these exist
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Here are some screenshots of the digital version:
Here is their description of the Advent Companion:
This pocket-sized Companion follows a practical, page-a-day format and features original meditations on each day’s Gospel by one of twenty-four gifted authors.
Each year’s Advent Companion is different from the last, and contains these one-of-a-kind extras that you won’t find anywhere else:
– A variety of beautiful and practical blessings
– An Advent Penance Service
– Specially-commissioned poetry
– Advent Stations
– Praying the O Antiphons
Advent is that sacred season of anticipation and expectation in which we come to terms with the deepest yearning of our soul—a yearning fulfilled only in Jesus Christ. As we wait in longing for the coming of the Christ Child at Christmas, we turn over to him all the false satisfactions—the compromises—of our life. To live Advent is to live in the awareness of a Presence that changes us.
Our Advent preparation is marked by vigilance—custody of the heart, in which we keep our soul fixed on the Lord. For what we see incarnate in the infant Jesus we desire for ourselves: purity, innocence, childlikeness restored. In the birth of this Child we know the promise of our own spiritual rebirth.
This rich spiritual companion will accompany you like a beloved friend through the four weeks of Advent with poignant scriptural reflections for each day of the season. You will also find a wealth of meditative prayers, essays, and poetry, an examination of conscience, and a unique feature:
the Advent Stations. If you long for the nearness of God in your life, this invaluable little booklet promises to bring you ever closer to the One who promised: I am with you always (Mt 28:20).
Rafflecopter entry forms below:
I’d love to win this!
Great Idea!
Ive been looking for something to jump start a more spiritual Advent.
Longtime Magnificat subscriber but my first iPhone year so would love to try the Advent app. Thanks for the raffle, Simcha!
Looks interesting!!!
Is it permissable to read this wearing what Brits would call “trousers” – while not carrying my Pants Pass, if I am doing so I’m my own home? Or would that counteract any graces I might receive?
You must wear an ankle length denim skirt and a full length Spanish mantilla to get the maximum benefit!
Yay, hope I win this
Which one to we enter for iPhone and underwear?
In the immortal words of Rev. Howard Johnson: Son, you’re on your own.
Thanks for sharing!
I’d love to have this for Advent this year!