Advent Reflection

Wed, 12/15/2021 - 1:00pm EST to 2:00pm

We invite you to attend NCPD Affiliate Connect on Wednesday, December 15, 2021, from 1-2:00 p.m. EDT.

This month, we will have an Advent Reflection by Lisa Wagner-Carollo, Spiritual Director and Deaf and Disabilities Ministries Coordinator for Catholic Charities in Kansas City-Saint Joseph.

Walking Through the Hidden Doors of Advent

In his birth and death, Jesus became a door for communion with the Holy One.

In our meditation and reflection together, we will pray using the symbol of the door as a way to deepen our Advent journey.

We will pray about the opening of doors within ourselves, and the opening of outer doors to our sisters and brothers as we engage with the world.

We will also reflect on the doors that have closed through loss or necessity.

Lift up your heads, O gates!

And be lifted up, O ancient doors,

that ^lthe God of glory may come in.

-Psalm 24:7

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Lisa Wagner-Carollo

Lisa is the Deaf and Disabilities Ministries Coordinator for Catholic Charities

Kansas City-St. Joseph. She is also the Founder of Chicago’s Still Point Theatre Collective and

established Still Point’s outreach program, The Imagination Workshop, for adults with

developmental disabilities. She has also worked with L’Arche and was one of the first two live-in

assistants for L’Arche Heartland. She is a Spiritual Director and has served on the Spiritual Life

Committee for L’Arche Chicago. She is also the author of Above, Along, Inside, and Through:

Poems, Prayers, and Reflections, a spiritual memoir. Recently, she co-produced with Still Point

Theatre Collective and Rush University Hospital None of Us Want to Stand Still, a film

advocating for better health care for individuals living with developmental disabilities.

Advent Reflection

Lisa Wagner-Carollo

National Catholic
Partnership on Disability

Advancing the Meaningful Participation
of Persons with Disabilities in Church and Society