Advent and Christmas Wisdom with Fulton J Sheen: Daily Scripture and Prayers Together With Sheen's Own Words

I’m a new mom and I don’t have as much time to do devotional/spiritual reading as I would like. This was the PERFECT thing for me to prepare for Christmas. I’d just read one page before bed and it always was super profound and gave me much to pray and reflect on. I love this book!! And Fulton Sheen is just an excellent theologian and writer so you can’t go wrong.

Most years, I let Advent get away from me because I am focusing too much on the stuff of Christmas rather than preparing for the coming of the Christ. At the suggestion of my spiritual director, this year I sought the assistance of the Venerable Fulton J. Sheen, and it made all the difference.Advent and Christmas with Fulton J. Sheen edited by Judy Bauer is a collection of wisdom from Sheen’s books formatted as a devotional. Bauer breaks up the book in three parts: readings for Advent, readings for Christmas, and a format for night prayer and reading.In the Readings for Advent, there are 28 days, since that is the longest Advent can be. Each day includes a Scripture passage taken from or related to the daily readings, a passage from one of Sheen’s books, and a prayer — I presume — written by Bauer. It is on two facing pages so it requires only a few moments each day.Readings for Christmas follow the same format but there are of course only 12 days.In the last part — Format for Night Prayer — Bauer presents the outline for using this book with the Liturgy of the Hours – Night Prayer.I found Bauer’s format to be easy to use and her selections of Sheen’s work to be excellent is helping me to consider the many mysteries that are presented during Advent and Christmas. For those who have never read any of Sheen’s work, this book gives a good introduction to his style and approach. I am looking forward to using this book again next Advent, and I would encourage you to consider it as well.

I've always loved anything by Fulton Sheen and this book did not disappoint. It's very easy to follow each day of Advent. It's arranged to allow for different ways of use. It can be used for personal daily devotion, as I used it, or for group discussion. The daily readings were very inspirational. They were long enough to be meaty but short enough to easily fit into my busy day. I enjoyed it so much that I'm considering buying the Lent version as well.

This is a great collection of meditative and contemplative prayers.

This book has really been a blessing to me for this Advent season. There is a Bible reading, meditation from Servant of God Archbishop Fulton J Sheen, and a prayer for each day; they aren't very long and give you something to "ponder in your heart," during these days of Advent. It also goes through the twelve days of Christmas. There is a section in the back to help you incorporate the daily reflections into a group prayer à la Liturgy of the Hours. This book would be a great place to start if you were unfamiliar with Archbishop Sheen's writings, but it would also be appreciated by those who are more familiar with his works. I'm thinking of buying more to give as gifts for next year and am really enjoying using these reflections to supplement my Advent prayer times.

Nice condition and prompt shipping/delivery

I reviewed the wrong book I’ll see if I can edit it but this is the one that was the compiled work of Bishop Sheen

Enjoying this book for Advent. The scripture quotes go well to lead into Bishop Sheen's excerpt used for quick meditation. Lost a star because the short prayer at the end of each day is disappointing. It seems rather generic and somehow for me anyway sort of spoils the flow - then again it's really hard to follow Bishop Sheen. I prefer to close now with a personal prayer to God based on what light the Holy Spirit gave me during the meditation.

At Christmas a brilliant book