Waiting in Joyful Hope

Prepare for the celebration of Christ's coming with this popular and inviting annual guide. During the especially busy Advent and Christmas seasons, this book offers brief, down-to-earth reflections that bring prayer and Scripture into everyday life in a thought-provoking and lasting way. Through Peter Dwyer’s reflections on lectionary readings from the weekday and Sunday Masses, readers will grow in their understanding of the word of God. This book will help busy people enrich their prayer life during the seasons of Advent and Christmas.

Peter Dwyer is the retired former director of Liturgical Press and founding publisher of Give Us This Day. He worked in magazine publishing in Minneapolis and New York for fifteen years before devoting more than three decades to Catholic publishing. He twice served as President of the Association of Catholic Publishers, and for more than twenty years convened a Heads of Houses peer group of Catholic publishers. He and his wife, Rose, have a son, a daughter-in-law, and two delightful grandsons.