Gardening with God: Light in Darkness Book

	Acknowledgements	ix
	Introduction	xiii
	Introductory Note	xxiii
Part 1	Advent to Shrove Tuesday
	Introductory Liturgical Note	2
	Advent
	First Sunday	3
	Monday Week One	6
	Tuesday Week One	11
	Wednesday Week One	17
	Thursday Week One	20
	Friday Week One	24
	Saturday Week One	28
	Second Sunday	33
	Monday Week Two	35
	Tuesday Week Two	38
	Wednesday Week Two	42
	Thursday Week Two	45
	Friday Week Two	48
	Saturday Week Two	51
	Third Sunday	53
	Monday Week Three	56
	Tuesday Week Three	60
	Wednesday Week Three	66
	Thursday Week Three	70
	Friday Week Three	75
	17 December	79
	Fourth Sunday	84
	19 December	87
	20 December	92
	21 December	96
	22 December	100
	23 December	105
	Christmas Eve	109
	Christmastide
	Christmas Day	114
	28 December: The Holy Innocents	118
	Sunday within the Octave of Christmas (or 30 December): The Holy Family	123
	1 January: Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God	128
	Epiphanytide
	6 January: The Epiphany of the Lord	134
	The Baptism of the Lord	143
	Ordinary Time before Lent
	From First Monday of Ordinary Time to Shrove Tuesday	147
Part 2	Solemnities and Saints' Days
	Introductory Note	168
	December
	3. St Francis Xavier	169
	4. St John Damascene	171
	6. St Nicholas	173
	7. St Ambrose	176
	8. The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary	178
	12. St Jane Frances de Chantal	186
	13. St Lucy of Syracuse	189
	St John of the Cross	191
	26. St Stephen	194
	27. St John the Evangelist	198
	29. St Thomas Becket	202
	31. St Silvester	210
	January
	2. SS Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen the Divine	214
	13. St Hilary of Poitiers	217
	17. St Antony of Egypt	219
	20. St Fabian; St Sebastian	221
	21. St Agnes	224
	22. St Vincent of Zaragoza	226
	24. St Francis de Sales	227
	25. The Conversion of St Paul	230
	26. SS Timothy and Titus	232
	27. St Angela Merici	234
	28. St Thomas Aquinas	237
	31. St John Bosco	240
	February
	2. The Presentation of the Lord (Candlemas)	243
	3. St Blaise	247
	5. St Agatha	249
	6. St Dorothy; St Paul Miki and Companions	251
	8. St Jerome Emiliani	254
	10. St Scholastica	256
	11. The Apparitions of Our Lady at Lourdes	259
	14. St Valentine; St Cyril; St Methodius	262
	17. The Seven Holy Founders of the Servite Order	264
	18. St Bernadette of Lourdes	267
	21. St Peter Damian	271
	22. The See of Peter	273
	23. St Polycarp	275
	27 (28). St Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows	277
	March
	1. St David	281
	4. St Casimir	283
	7. SS Perpetua and Felicity	284
	8. St John of God	286
	9. St Frances of Rome	288
Appendix 1	An example of how this book can be used to plan retreats or quiet days	290
Appendix 2	Useful addresses	306
	Select Bibliography	312