Come Adore: It is Time to Prepare Our Hearts

Dear friends,

If I’m honest, I’m pretty excited about what’s coming up next week…

Join Dan snd Stephanie Burke and Fr. John Burns, a priest of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee and popular writer and speaker, as they discuss how to stay close to the mysteries of Advent by spending this upcoming season well below the surface of society’s rush, noise, and commercialism.

We can drink from the depths of the Church’s rich graces, extended to us in the liturgy, and spend Christmas renewed rather than depleted. (Yes, please!)

Fr. Burns will share about his guided journal, Adore, and talk about the ways these next few weeks invite us to discover the ways that the Lord draws near to us in stillness and the sanctified space of waiting.

Isn’t that, after all, the definition of the present moment? To be fully present to what God is doing here and now and not miss what is offered us only once a year: the holy expectation of Advent, the sacred experience of holding our breath for the greatest gift ever given.

Come, join Dan, Stephanie, and Fr. Burns for this live, online event on Tuesday, November 23 at 7 PM Central. All those who register will receive the recording—just in case you can’t make it in real-time.

We invite you to join the guest list at this link: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/avilafoundation/494757

and watch a special preview video about Fr. Burns’ Advent study:

I’ll see you there!

Yours in Christ,
Claire Dwyer
Avila Foundation
SpiritualDirection.com

P.S. One more thing: if you’d like to order Adore now, Ave Maria Press has offered us a discount code: ADORE21 which will get you free shipping or $4.99 priority mail of Fr. Burns’ new book.

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Claire Dwyer

Mom, Wife, Interior Life — that’s it in a nutshell.

Claire’s been devouring books and pouring the words back out again longer than she can remember. It’s where her love of God and the Catholic faith finds its fullest expression.

Claire graduated Summa Cum Laude from the Franciscan University of Steubenville with a degree in Theology, has a certification in Spiritual Theology from the Avila Institute, and a certification in Spiritual Direction from St. Vincent Seminary’s Institute of Ministry Formation.

Her roles as mother, mentor, spiritual writer, editor of spiritualdirection.com, and lifelong student of the interior life all came together in her first book, "This Present Paradise: A Spiritual Journey with St. Elizabeth of the Trinity." She is also the author of Blessed is She's Advent study, In Time: Living in the Now and Not Yet" and a contributor to their daily devotionals, and has written a book on St. Edith Stein set to release January of 2027.

She has a passion, through writing and speaking, for helping the faithful to see the beauty and possibility of their own interior lives and their unrepeatable place in the Church, and for Catholic writers in particular to be encouraged and formed in their writing journey. To that end, she is co-founder and content director of Write These Words and the PraiseWriters Catholic Writing Membership Community.

Most importantly, she has been married for almost 28 years to her husband Delaney and they have six children and two grandsons.

Connect and keep in touch with her at ClaireDwyer.com. You can also read about spirituality for the Catholic writer on her Substack, Word and Silence.