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The light, the poet writes, is what we hold for each other — carried in the marrow, in the hollow of the heart that splinters open in hope. This Advent, we gather in sacred, devotional space to hold that light together, and to let it illumine what feels shattered in ourselves and in the world.
Despite the division and conflict that abounds, our shared presence generates real hope, peace, joy, and love. Rest and relax into an online interspiritual program of contemplative teaching, storytelling, chant, song, prayer, and meditation, as we prepare our hearts for the season ahead.
Don’t miss this annual December tradition — please join us!
Carmen Acevedo Butcher is an internationally acclaimed speaker and award-winning translator, author, poet, teacher, and workshop leader. Her translation of The Cloud of Unknowing was a Georgia Author of the Year Awardee, and Martin Laird calls her translation of Brother Lawrence’s Practice of the Presence “the new standard.” She has also been interviewed by the BBC, NPR, and many podcasts.
She earned her MA and PhD in Medieval Studies at the University of Georgia and was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of London, where she worked with monastic manuscripts. Carmen teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, and is core faculty and Dean at the Center for Action and Contemplation.
She is often found in the marsh chanting Psalm 46:10 in Old English.
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